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Feed: Recent Announcements. Furthermore, with this launch we are also expanding the backup intervals on DLM to support weekly, monthly and annual schedules in addition to the already available hourly and daily schedules. Your backup interval can now be anywhere between 1 hour and 1 year.  We launched DLM in July 2018 to enable automation of creation and retention of EBS volume snapshots via policies. Since then, we have made DLM easier to use and supported Disaster Recovery use-cases with capabilities like more frequent backup support and cross region copy of snapshots. Today, we extend the DLM to support additional ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. Amazon SageMaker is a fully managed service that is highly available, scalable, and reliable. SageMaker simplifies the infrastructure required to run a Kubeflow Pipeline environment. SageMaker Components for Kubeflow Pipelines currently support SageMaker Ground Truth, training, hyperparameter optimization, model creation, batch inference, and model endpoint creation jobs. The Amazon SageMaker Components for Kubeflow Pipelines public preview is available in all regions where Amazon SageMaker is offered. Refer to AWS Region Table for details. To get started, visit the SageMaker Components for Kubeflow Pipelines documentation page ... Read More

Feed: AWS Public Sector Blog. Author: Ben Butler. Left: healthy lungs, captured in a CT scan; right: the lungs of someone infected with COVID-19. Technology and the cloud can help address some of the world’s most pressing and immediate challenges, like battling COVID-19 and improving cities. At Amazon Web Services (AWS), we encourage innovation through technology in our AWS Cloud Innovation Centers (CICs). CICs are long-term, strategic collaborations with public sector organizations interested in solving societal problems through digital solutions while providing students a platform to learn by doing. The goal of CICs is to solve public sector challenges that ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. As many organizations move towards self-service analytics, there is a need to enforce data governance and cost controls on the amount of data consumed by end users. With storage controls for schemas, Amazon Redshift empowers data analytics leaders to control and monitor the amount of storage used by different applications and users across an organization.  You can alter schema quotas at any time. The disk space used by a schema is measured as the collective disk used by all permanent tables and materialized views. When a transaction exceeds the quota, Amazon Redshift aborts the transaction and prohibits ... Read More

Feed: AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog. Author: Ram Dileepan. By Ram Dileepan, Sr. Solutions Architect at AWSBy Kyle Tryon, Partner Integration Engineer at CircleCICircleCI has released an aws-serverless-framework orb to make it easier to continuously integrate and deploy serverless applications built using the Serverless Framework. An orb is a sharable package of continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) configurations that is easy to use and makes the software delivery faster and less error prone. CircleCI is an AWS Partner Network (APN) Advanced Technology Partner with an AWS DevOps Competency. Its continuous integration and delivery platform allows teams to rapidly release ... Read More

Feed: AWS Big Data Blog. Prior to joining AWS, I led a development team that built mobile advertising solutions with Elasticsearch. Elasticsearch is a popular open-source search and analytics engine for log analytics, real-time application monitoring, clickstream analysis, and (of course) search. The platform I was responsible for was essential to driving my company’s business.My team ran a self-managed implementation of Elasticsearch on AWS. At the time, a managed Elasticsearch offering wasn’t available. We had to build the scripting and tooling to deploy our Elasticsearch clusters across three geographical regions. This included the following tasks (and more): Configuring the networking, ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. Amazon FSx, a fully managed service that makes it easy to launch and run feature-rich and highly-performant file systems, is now available in the AWS Asia Pacific (Mumbai) Region. With Amazon FSx, customers can leverage the rich feature sets and fast performance of widely-used open source and commercially-licensed file systems, while avoiding time-consuming administrative tasks like hardware provisioning, software configuration, patching, and backups.  ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. Customers use a Hive Metastore as a common metadata catalog for their big data environments. Such customers run Apache Spark, Presto, and Apache Hive on Amazon EC2 and Amazon EMR clusters with a self-hosted Hive Metastore as a common catalog. AWS also offers the AWS Glue Data Catalog - a fully managed catalog and drop-in replacement for the Hive Metastore. With the current release, you can now connect multiple Hive Metastores in addition to the Glue Data Catalog with Athena.  To connect to a self-hosted Hive Metastore, you need an Athena Hive Metastore connector. We have built ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. With this update, query compilations are now scaled to a serverless compute engine beyond the compute resources of the leader node of your cluster. We are also releasing an unlimited cache to store compiled objects to increase cache hits, from 99.60% to 99.95%, when your mission-critical queries are submitted to Redshift.   When queries are sent to Amazon Redshift, the query execution engine compiles the query into machine code and distributes it to the cluster nodes. The compiled code executes faster because it eliminates the overhead of using an interpreter. For a new cluster with no code ... Read More

Feed: AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog. Author: AWS Admin. The AWS Partner Network (APN) is the global partner program for technology and consulting businesses who leverage Amazon Web Services (AWS) to build solutions and services for customers.The APN helps companies build, market, and sell their AWS offerings by providing valuable business, technical, and marketing support. There are tens of thousands of APN Partners across the globe. More than 90 percent of Fortune 100 companies and the majority of Fortune 500 companies utilize APN Partner solutions and services. At AWS re:Invent 2019, we met up with APN Partners and asked them about ... Read More