Tag: News
AWS Backup – Automate and Centrally Manage Your Backups
AWS gives you the power to easily and dynamically create file systems, block storage volumes, relational databases, NoSQL databases, and other resources that store precious data. You can create them on a moment’s notice as the need arises, giving you access to as much storage as you need and opening the door to large-scale cloud […]
Behind the Scenes & Under the Carpet – The CenturyLink Network that Powered AWS re:Invent 2018
If you are a long-time reader, you may have already figured out that I am fascinated by the behind-the-scenes and beneath-the-streets activities that enable and power so much of our modern world. For example, late last year I told you how The AWS Cloud Goes Underground at re:Invent and shared some information about the communication […]
Podcast #289: A Look at Amazon FSx For Windows File Server
In this episode, Simon speaks with Andrew Crudge (Senior Product Manager, FSx) about this newly released service, capabilities available to customers and how to make the best use of it in your environment. Additional Resources FSx for Windows File Server FSx Getting Started FSx Features FSx Pricing FSx FAQs FSx for Windows Tech Talk FSx […]
New – Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB Compatibility): Fast, Scalable, and Highly Available
A glance at the AWS Databases page will show you that we offer an incredibly wide variety of databases, each one purpose-built to address a particular need! In order to help you build the coolest and most powerful applications, you can mix and match relational, key-value, in-memory, graph, time series, and ledger databases. Introducing Today […]
Western Digital HDD Simulation at Cloud Scale – 2.5 Million HPC Tasks, 40K EC2 Spot Instances
Earlier this month my colleague Bala Thekkedath published a story about Extreme Scale HPC and talked about how AWS customer Western Digital built a cloud-scale HPC cluster on AWS and used it to simulate crucial elements of upcoming head designs for their next-generation hard disk drives (HDD). The simulation described in the story encompassed a […]
Now Open – AWS Europe (Stockholm) Region
The AWS Region in Sweden that I promised you last year is now open and you can start using it today! The official name is and the API name is eu-north-1. This is our fifth region in Europe, joining the existing regions in , , , and . Together, these regions provide you with a […]
And Now a Word from Our AWS Heroes…
Whew! Now that 2018 has wrapped up, the AWS Blog Team is taking some time to relax, recharge, and to prepare for 2019. In order to wrap up the year in style, we have asked several of the to write guest blog posts on an AWS-related topic of their choice. You will get to hear […]
New – EC2 P3dn GPU Instances with 100 Gbps Networking & Local NVMe Storage for Faster Machine Learning + P3 Price Reduction
Late last year I told you about Amazon EC2 P3 instances and also spent some time discussing the concept of the Tensor Core, a specialized compute unit that is designed to accelerate machine learning training and inferencing for large, deep neural networks. Our customers love P3 instances and are using them to run a wide […]
New – AWS Well-Architected Tool – Review Workloads Against Best Practices
Back in 2015 we launched the AWS Well-Architected Framework and I asked Are You Well-Architected? The framework includes five pillars that encapsulate a set of core strategies and best practices for architecting systems in the cloud: Operational Excellence – Running and managing systems to deliver business value. Security – Protecting information and systems. Reliability – […]
New for AWS Lambda – Use Any Programming Language and Share Common Components
I remember the excitement when was announced in 2014! Four years on, customers are using functions for many different use cases. For example, iRobot is using AWS Lambda to provide compute services for their Roomba robotic vacuum cleaners, Fannie Mae to run Monte Carlo simulations for millions of mortgages, Bustle to serve billions of requests for their digital content. Today, we are introducing […]
New – Compute, Database, Messaging, Analytics, and Machine Learning Integration for AWS Step Functions
is a fully managed workflow service for application developers. You can think & work at a high level, connecting and coordinating activities in a reliable and repeatable way, while keeping your business logic separate from your workflow logic. After you design and test your workflows (which we call state machines), you can deploy them at […]
New – AWS Toolkits for PyCharm, IntelliJ (Preview), and Visual Studio Code (Preview)
Software developers have their own preferred tools. Some use powerful editors, others Integrated Development Environments (IDEs) that are tailored for specific languages and platforms. In 2014 I created my first function using the editor in the console. Now, you can choose from a rich set of tools to build and deploy serverless applications. For example, the […]
New – Hibernate Your EC2 Instances
As you know, you can easily build highly scalable AWS applications that launch fresh EC2 instances on an as-needed basis. While the instances can be up and running in a matter of seconds, booting the operating system and the application can take considerable time. Also, caches and other memory-centric application components can take some time […]
New AWS License Manager – Manage Software Licenses and Enforce Licensing Rules
When you make use of commercial, licensed software in the using a BYOL (Bring Your Own License) strategy, you need to make sure that you stay within the provisions of the license, while also avoiding expensive over-provisioning. This can be a challenge when it is so easy to launch instances on demand whenever you need […]
AWS Launches, Previews, and Pre-Announcements at re:Invent 2018 – Andy Jassy Keynote
As promised in Welcome to AWS re:Invent 2018, here’s a summary of the launches, previews, and pre-announcements from Andy Jassy’s keynote. I have included links to allow you to sign up for previews, as appropriate. (photo from AWS Community Hero Eric Hammond) Launches Here are the blog posts that we wrote for today’s launches: Amazon […]
Amazon SageMaker Neo – Train Your Machine Learning Models Once, Run Them Anywhere
Machine learning (ML) is split in two distinct phases: training and inference. Training deals with building the model, i.e. running a ML algorithm on a dataset in order to identify meaningful patterns. This often requires large amounts of storage and computing power, making the cloud a natural place to train ML jobs with services such […]
Amazon Forecast – Time Series Forecasting Made Easy
The capacity to foresee the future would be an incredible superpower. At AWS, we can’t give you that, but we can help you use machine learning to forecast time series in a few steps. The goal of time series forecasting is to predict future values of time-dependent data such as weekly sales, daily inventory levels, […]
New – Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics for Java
Customers are using to collect, process, and analyze real-time streaming data. In this way, they can react quickly to new information from their business, their infrastructure, or their customers. For example, Epic Games ingests more than 1.5 million game events per second for its popular online game, Fornite. With Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics you can process data […]
AWS Previews and Pre-Announcements at re:Invent 2018 – Midnight Madness
As promised in Welcome to AWS re:Invent 2018, here’s a summary of the launches and previews from Midnight Madness: Launches Here are detailed blog posts & whats new pages for last night’s launches: AWS RoboMaker – Develop, Test, Deploy, and Manage Intelligent Robotics Apps. AWS DataSync – Automated and Accelerated Data Transfer. AWS Transfer for […]
New AWS Resource Access Manager – Cross-Account Resource Sharing
As I have discussed in the past, our customers use multiple AWS accounts for many different reasons. Some of them use accounts to create administrative and billing boundaries; others use them to control the blast radius around any mistakes that they make. Even though all of this isolation is a net positive for our customers, […]