Author: Amazon Web Services

Feed: What's New. Amazon Data Lifecycle Manager (DLM) for EBS Snapshots provides a simple, automated way to back up data stored on Amazon EBS volumes. You can define backup and retention schedules for EBS snapshots by creating lifecycle policies based on tags. With this feature, you no longer have to rely on custom scripts to create and manage your backups ... Read More

Feed: What's New. IAM policies enable you to grant employees and applications access to AWS services, actions, and resources. As your organization grows, you might want to allow trusted employees to configure and manage IAM permissions to help your organization scale permission management and move workloads to AWS faster. For example, you might want to grant a developer the ability to create and manage permissions for an IAM role required to run an application on Amazon EC2. Now, you can set a permissions boundary to control the maximum permissions employees can grant to the IAM principals (users and roles) that ... Read More

Feed: What's New. You can now remap response status code based on the contents of the body. You can also override response headers as well as request headers, query strings, and path parameters based on the contents of the body, other parameters, or status code. For example, if your legacy backend API returns a 200 HTTP status code with body content of “Input field out of range”, you can now remap the API to return a status code of 4xx. Visit our documentation to learn more about request/response parameters and status overrides. This feature is available in all regions where ... Read More

Feed: What's New. AWS Marketplace, a curated digital catalog, which lists over 4,200 software listings from popular independent software vendors, has announced AWS Marketplace Migration Mapping Assistant, which helps you accelerate your migration to AWS by finding matching products from your existing inventory of on-premises applications ... Read More

Feed: What's New. DeepAR is typically used for forecasting in use cases such as improved supply chain with better product demand forecasts. Many data sets come with incomplete data leading to incorrect forecasts. With DeepAR in SageMaker, missing values are now handled within the model, making forecasting easier and more accurate by utilizing the recurrent neural networks (RNN) model. The second enhancement for DeepAR algorithm is the ability to support custom time-varying features such as seasonality patterns that vary at different levels of a hierarchy across different time series. Third, DeepAR supports grouping of time series with multiple attributes, also ... Read More

Feed: AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog. Author: Richard Elberger. By Richard Elberger, Partner Solutions Architect at AWS By Johannes Lask, Software Developer and Product Manager at SEGGERSEGGER Microcontroller is a full-range supplier of software, hardware, and development tools for embedded systems. They offer support throughout the development process with high quality, flexible, and easy-to-use tools and components. SEGGER is an AWS Partner Network (APN) Standard Technology Partner and provides solutions for secure communication as well as data and product security, meeting the needs of the rapidly evolving Internet of Things (IoT) market. In this post, you will see what your IoT ... Read More

Feed: What's New. Amazon Web Services is Hiring. Amazon Web Services (AWS) is a dynamic, growing business unit within Amazon.com. We are currently hiring Software Development Engineers, Product Managers, Account Managers, Solutions Architects, Support Engineers, System Engineers, Designers and more. Visit our careers page to learn more. Amazon.com is an Equal Opportunity-Affirmative Action Employer – Minority / Female / Disability / Veteran / Gender Identity / Sexual Orientation ... Read More

Feed: AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog. Author: Vibhu Bithar. By Vibhu Bithar, Partner Solutions Architect at AWSAsset tracking is an area where the Internet of Things (IoT) has significant business impact. Asset tracking refers to the method of tracking physical assets, either by scanning barcode labels attached to the assets or by using GPS, BLE, or RFID tags that broadcast their location. These technologies can also be used for indoor tracking of persons wearing a tag. Coarse location tracking is a subset of location tracking where the approximate location of an asset (within a 20-mile radius) suffices the use-case requirements. In ... Read More

Feed: What's New. These metrics help you debug code, identify data issues, and plan CPU capacity. You can also setup alarms in Amazon CloudWatch on specific Job conditions. To learn more about these metrics and how you can use them, please visit our documentation. AWS Glue is available in the AWS Regions US East (N. Virginia), US East (Ohio), US West (Oregon), EU (Frankfurt), EU (Ireland), EU(London), Asia Pacific (Mumbai), Asia Pacific (Seoul), Asia Pacific (Singapore), Asia Pacific (Sydney), and Asia Pacific (Tokyo) ... Read More

Feed: What's New. Customers can now store sensitive payment card data in an encrypted Amazon EFS file system for use cases such as payment processing, mobile wallet, and payment fraud prevention that are subject to PCI DSS compliance. PCI DSS is a proprietary information security standard administered by the PCI Security Standards Council and applies to all entities that store, process or transmit cardholder data and/or sensitive authentication data including merchants, processors, acquirers, issuers, and service providers. Amazon EFS provides simple, scalable, elastic file storage for use with AWS Cloud services and on-premises resources. It is easy to use and ... Read More