Customers running database workloads like Oracle and SQL Server on EC2 today want high memory, storage, and I/O bandwidth but do not require a high vCPU count since these workloads are rarely compute-bound. Memory-optimized instance families such as Amazon EC2 X1 instances and Amazon EC2 R4 instances offer high RAM-to-vCPU ratio to help customers select […]

Reserved Instance (RI) coverage tracks the number of running instance hours that are covered by RIs, and can be measured over a daily, monthly, quarterly or yearly cadence. For example, you can monitor your RI coverage either at an aggregate level (e.g., monthly coverage of your entire Amazon EC2 RI fleet) or at a more […]

AWS Glue automates much of the effort involved in building, maintaining, and running extract, transform, and load (ETL) jobs. Glue crawls your data sources, identifies data formats, and suggests schemas and transformations. Glue automatically generates the code to execute your data transformations and loading processes. Glue is serverless, so there is no infrastructure to provision […]

Previously, linked account bills displayed blended rates and costs. Blended rates are the average cost per unit of usage across all accounts within a customer’s consolidated billing family (calculated by dividing total product costs by total product usage). Blended costs are derived for each linked account by multiplying the blended rate for each product by […]

We are pleased to announce the general availability of the latest release of Thinkbox Deadline, v10.0.15. This release includes support for 3ds Max 2019 and Vue 2016, and includes improvements to features such as Spot Fleet with AWS Portal and Usage Based Licensing. You can now use Thinkbox Deadline with the latest versions of 3ds […]

Amazon Elasticsearch Service Reserved Instances are available across 15 regions globally: US East (N. Virginia, Ohio), US West (N. California, Oregon), Canada (Central), EU (Frankfurt, Ireland, London, Paris), Asia Pacific (Mumbai, Seoul, Singapore, Sydney, Tokyo), and South America (Sao Paulo).

Amazon Lightsail is the easiest way to get started with AWS. Get everything you need to jumpstart your website – a virtual machine, SSD-based storage, data transfer, DNS management, and a static IP – for a low, predictable price. Plans start at $5 per month. With this expansion, Amazon Lightsail is currently available in the […]

Kinesis Data Analytics is the easiest way to process streaming data in real time with standard SQL without having to learn new programming languages or processing frameworks. Kinesis Data Analytics enables you to query streaming data or build entire streaming applications using SQL, so that you can gain actionable insights and respond to your business […]

Launched at re:Invent 2017, Amazon EC2 H1 instances are a new family of Amazon EC2 Storage Optimized instances designed for popular big data and data-intensive workloads, including MapReduce, distributed file systems like HDFS and MapR-FS, network file systems, log or data processing applications like Apache Kafka, and big data clusters. Powered by 2.3 GHz Intel […]

You can now locally test and debug your AWS CodeBuild builds using the new CodeBuild local agent.  Previously, if you wanted to test your AWS CodeBuild build, you had to fully configure and run CodeBuild.  Now, you can simulate a CodeBuild environment locally to quickly troubleshoot the commands and settings located in the BuildSpec file.  […]

Tableau Server is an online solution for sharing, distributing, and collaborating on business intelligence content created in Tableau. With Tableau Server, you can create workbooks and views, dashboards, and data sources in Tableau Desktop, and publish this content to the server. This Quick Start uses AWS CloudFormation templates to install one of the following architectures: […]

The Amazon DynamoDB Encryption Client: Is designed especially for DynamoDB applications Includes secure encryption and signing Provides interoperable language implementations in Java and Python Uses cryptographic materials from any source Does not require AWS or any AWS Service If you have questions about using the DynamoDB Encryption Client, start a new thread on the AWS […]

You can create an EC2 Fleet specification defining target capacity, which EC2 instance types work for you, and how much of your fleet should be filled using On-Demand, RI and Spot purchase models. You can also indicate whether EC2 Fleet should take into account the number of cores and amount of memory on each instance […]

We have increased the maximum row size allowed in Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics applications from 50KB to 512KB, so you can process and analyze streams with hundreds of columns. We have also increased the maximum code size of Kinesis Data Analytics applications from 50KB to 100KB, allowing several hundreds of SQL statements in an application.

Amazon WorkSpaces is a fully managed, secure Desktop-as-a-Service (DaaS) solution which runs on AWS. With WorkSpaces, you can provision virtual, cloud-based desktops for your users, providing them access to the documents, applications, and resources they need, anywhere, anytime, from any supported device. You can quickly add or remove WorkSpaces to meet the needs of your dynamic […]

Global tables builds upon the global footprint of DynamoDB to provide you a fully managed, multi-region, multi-master database. It enables you to replicate table updates automatically across the AWS Regions you select. Global tables can be set up with just a few clicks in the AWS Management Console or by using the AWS SDK. There […]

We have updated Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL to support PostgreSQL minor versions 9.6.6, 9.5.10, 9.4.15, and 9.3.20 in AWS GovCloud (US). This release fixes three PostgreSQL security vulnerabilities and contains additional bug fixes and improvements. With this update, we have also added support for the ‘orafce’ extension to emulate a subset of common functions and […]

You can now record configuration changes to AWS X-Ray using AWS Config. AWS X-Ray helps developers analyze and debug production-level distributed applications, such as those built using a microservices architecture. With X-Ray, you can understand how your application and its underlying services are functioning to identify and troubleshoot performance issues and errors.

AWS Service Catalog, used by enterprises, system integrators, and managed service providers to organize, govern, and provision cloud resources on AWS, is announcing the AWS Service Catalog Connector for ServiceNow. The connector allows you to use your existing AWS Service Catalog configuration, including curated products, portfolios, constraints, and tagging, and expose this to your ServiceNow […]

Push events from GitHub are configured via the AWS CodePipeline console, AWS Command Line Interface, and CodePipeline API. You will need to configure your new or existing pipelines to use webhooks. Pipelines you do not configure with webhooks will continue to use periodic checking. Please see our documentation to learn more about using webhooks with […]

Administrators can chain together products during a launch. To do this, the initiating CloudFormation template will call the Service Catalog ProvisionProduct API as a CloudFormation resource, and reference the next product to launch. For example, administrators can create separate Amazon EC2 and Amazon RDS products and then have the completed EC2 product initiate the creation […]

AWS IoT Analytics can accept data from any source, including any external sources using an BatchPutMessage API, and is fully integrated with AWS IoT Core. AWS IoT Analytics collects, pre-processes, enriches, stores, and analyzes IoT device data so you can easily identify things like the average distance traveled for a fleet of connected vehicles, or […]

You can now access Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) resources for training and hosting workflows in Amazon SageMaker. With this new feature, you can use Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) buckets that are only accessible through your VPC to store training data, as well as to store and host the model artifacts derived from the […]

TIBCO BusinessWorks Container Edition is an integration product suite that enables you to create services and applications in a visual, model-driven development environment. It provides a drag-and-drop graphical development environment, a graphical data mapper, and a large library of connectors, including plug-ins for Advanced Message Queuing Protocol (AMQP), data conversion, Microsoft Dynamics CRM, Apache Kafka, […]

Alexa for Business now enables you to view the connection status of your shared devices in the Alexa for Business console by showing whether they are online or offline. Shared devices can be placed in common areas, like conference rooms and building lobbies, and they are managed centrally using the Alexa for Business console. By […]

You can monitor bucket storage using CloudWatch, which collects and processes storage data from Amazon S3 into readable, daily metrics. These storage metrics for Amazon S3 are reported once per day and are provided at no additional cost. Amazon CloudWatch Metrics for Amazon S3 is available in all commercial AWS Regions starting today.

To schedule a recurring security assessment, go to the Amazon Inspector console and expand the assessment template you want to schedule on the Assessment Templates page. In the ‘Assessment Events’ section, select your desired frequency and click the ‘Add Schedule’ button. Inspector will then set up a schedule event rule in CloudWatch Events for you. […]

With AWS Elemental MediaPackage, you can now add Common Media Application Format (CMAF) fragmented MP4 HLS endpoints to live channels. This is in addition to the Apple HLS, Microsoft Smooth Streaming, and DASH endpoints already supported. Support for CMAF HLS endpoints allows you to ingest a single live stream and format it to play on […]

When you upload a MySQL backup file to S3, you can encrypt it with an S3-managed key or with an AWS Key Management Service (KMS) managed key. Aurora automatically decrypts backup files encrypted with an S3-managed key. The RDS management console provides an easy way to grant access to KMS-managed keys. With this launch, Aurora […]

R4 instances are the latest generation of Memory Optimized instances, featuring all previous-generation sizes plus a new 16xlarge instance size. They are optimized for memory-intensive and latency-sensitive database workloads, including data analytics, in-memory databases, and high-performance production workloads. They offer15.25 to 488 GiB of DDR4 memory and 2 to 64 vCPUs. R4 instances feature Enhanced […]

The AWS Deep Learning AMIs provide integrated tools for machine learning practitioners to quickly get started with deep learning. The AMIs are optimized for high performance on Amazon EC2 instances such as P3 and C5, and come pre-installed with deep learning frameworks such as TensorFlow, Apache MXNet, PyTorch, Chainer, Microsoft Cognitive Toolkit, Caffe2, as well […]

For GPU-based training, the AMIs come with Chainer 4 fully configured with CuPy, NVIDIA CUDA 9, and cuDNN 7 to take advantage of mixed-precision training on NVIDIA Volta V100 GPUs powering Amazon EC2 P3 instances. Chainer 4 also provides improved support for TensorCores in Volta GPUs used in low-precision computations. The AMIs also deploy the […]

This updated Quick Start builds a highly available, secure global transit network on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud in about 5 minutes. It deploys Aviatrix Controller and Aviatrix Gateways in a central virtual private cloud (VPC) on AWS to manage routing between remote networks (spoke VPCs) in a hub-and-spoke model. A central transit hub […]

The new Db2 LUW source adds to the existing list of relational database, NoSQL, and object store sources supported by DMS. If the database migration target is Amazon Aurora, Amazon Redshift or Amazon DynamoDB, you can use DMS free for six months. SCT supports conversion of Db2 LUW objects to Amazon RDS for MySQL, Amazon […]

AWS SMS is an agentless service which makes it easier and faster for you to migrate thousands of on-premises workloads to AWS. It allows you to automate, schedule, and track incremental replications of live server volumes, making it easier for you to coordinate large-scale server migrations.

Using DAX, you can improve the read performance of your DynamoDB tables by up to 10x—taking the time required for reads from milliseconds to microseconds—even at millions of requests per second. DAX manages cache invalidation and data population on your behalf. It also works with existing DynamoDB API calls so that developers can use DAX […]

You can now record configuration changes to AWS Lambda using AWS Config. AWS Lambda lets you run code without provisioning or managing servers. With Config, you can track changes to the Lambda function, runtime environments, tags, handler name, code size, memory allocation, timeout settings, and concurrency settings. You can also record changes to Lambda IAM […]

RCF is an unsupervised machine learning algorithm for detecting data points that diverge from otherwise well-structured or patterned data set. Detecting these anomalies in data can be critical in a variety of applications – such as identifying fraud detection and incorrectly-priced products as a retailer, or monitoring the health of emergency room patients. The Amazon […]

Amazon CloudFront announces the addition of a third Edge Location in Singapore and second Edge location in Taipei, Taiwan. Every Edge Location that we add to the AWS infrastructure increases CloudFront’s capacity to serve secure content with low latency and high availability, around the world. A full list of CloudFront’s global infrastructure can be seen on the […]

You can now record configuration changes to AWS Elastic Beanstalk resource types using AWS Config. AWS Elastic Beanstalk is a service for deploying and scaling web applications and services developed in multiple languages. You upload your code and Elastic Beanstalk automatically handles the deployment from capacity provisioning, load balancing, auto-scaling to application health monitoring. With […]

AWS Auto Scaling allows you to discover scalable resources underlying your application and scale them all using a single scaling plan. Previously, AWS Auto Scaling discovered application resources based on an Amazon CloudFormation stack. Now, AWS Auto Scaling can also discover scalable resources that you have categorized for your application using resource tags. Resource tag-based […]

AWS Glue automates much of the effort to build, maintain, and run extract, transform, and load (ETL) jobs. Glue crawls your data sources, identifies data formats, and suggests schemas and transformations. Glue automatically generates the code to execute your data transformations and loading processes. Glue is serverless, so there is no infrastructure to provision or […]

The AWS Certified Security – Specialty exam is here. This new exam allows experienced cloud security professionals to demonstrate and validate their knowledge of how to secure the AWS platform. About the examThe security exam covers incident response, logging and monitoring, infrastructure security, identity and access management, and data protection. It validates understanding of specialized […]

These AMIs, along with the previously announced .NET Core on Amazon Linux 2 and Ubuntu AMIs, make it easier for you to modernize .NET and SQL workloads on free Linux-based operating systems, without the need to buy Windows Server licenses. You can launch SQL Server 2017 on Ubuntu Server 16.04 and Amazon Linux 2 Candidate […]

With AWS Blockchain Templates, you can deploy Ethereum and Hyperledger Fabric frameworks using managed and certified AWS CloudFormation templates. AWS Blockchain Templates allow you to focus on building your blockchain applications instead of spending time and energy on manual setup of your blockchain network. AWS Blockchain Templates deploy the blockchain framework you choose as containers […]

To generate these recommendations, Cost Explorer first analyzes your instance usage to automatically identify all of your on-demand usage that can be covered with RIs. From there, Cost Explorer generates RI purchase recommendations to optimally cover your On-Demand usage at a discounted RI rate—including automatically identifying instance family usage that can be most efficiently covered […]

AWS CloudHSM offers you the flexibility to integrate with your applications using industry-standard APIs, such as PKCS#11 and Java Cryptography Extensions (JCE). CloudHSM is also standards-compliant and enables you to export all of your keys to most other commercially-available HSMs. It is a fully-managed service that automates time-consuming administrative tasks for you, such as hardware […]

Amazon Athena is an interactive query service that makes it easy to analyze data in Amazon S3 using standard SQL. Athena is serverless, so there is no infrastructure to manage, and you pay only for the queries that you run. Today, we are releasing a new JDBC driver with features such as Array data type […]

For example, if a DNS record is missing, you can use the DNS Audit event log to help identify the root cause and fix the issue. You can also use DNS Audit event logs to improve security by detecting and blocking requests from suspicious IP addresses.

AWS Config and AWS Firewall Manager now support new multi-account features by integrating with AWS Organizations. With the new AWS Config multi-account data aggregation capability, Organizations administrators can now get an organization-wide view of their compliance status. AWS Firewall Manager enables Organizations administrators to centrally configure and manage AWS WAF rules across accounts in their […]