Author: Amazon Web Services

Feed: Recent Announcements. Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK) is now integrated with AWS CloudFormation and HashiCorp Terraform which allows customers to describe and provision Amazon MSK resources using code. These services make it easy to provision and configure Amazon MSK clusters in a repeatable, automated, and secure manner.  ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. You can now use the AWS Cloud Map service registry selectors with AWS App Mesh. This new option allows you to define a subset of endpoints (through matching on key and value selectors) that were defined in Cloud Map. You simply change your App Mesh VirtualNode configuration to use Cloud Map, add the selectors for the subset of service endpoints you want the VirtualNode to represent and register your running service (IP addresses and metadata) with the corresponding Cloud Map Service name and Namespace and keys and value metadata. When routing traffic to that Virtual Node, App ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. CloudFormation support for AWS Client VPN endpoint resources is available in all of the AWS Regions where AWS Client VPN is available. AWS Client VPN is available in US East (N. Virginia), US East (Ohio), US West (Oregon), EU (Ireland), EU (Frankfurt), EU (London), Asia Pacific (Sydney), Asia Pacific (Singapore), Asia Pacific (Mumbai) and Asia Pacific (Tokyo) ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. The AWS Amplify Console provides a Git-based workflow for deploying and hosting fullstack serverless web applications. A fullstack serverless app consists of a frontend built with single page application frameworks such as React, Angular, Vue, or Gatsby and an optional backend built with cloud resources such as GraphQL or REST APIs and file and data storage.  To learn how to provision an Amplify Console CloudFormation template check out our launch blog.  ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. The following resources were updated as part of this release: AWS::EC2::Host, AWS::EC2::Route, AWS::EC2::VPNConnection, AWS::ECS::Cluster, AWS::ECS::Service, AWS::ECS::TaskDefinition, AWS::EFS::MountTarget, AWS::ElasticLoadBalancingV2::ListenerRule, AWS::EMR::Cluster, AWS::KinesisFirehose::DeliveryStream, AWS::S3::Bucket. AWS::EC2::HostUse the HostRecovery property to indicates whether to enable or disable host recovery for the Dedicated Host. AWS::EC2::RouteUse the TransitGatewayId property to specify the ID of a transit gateway. AWS::EC2::VPNConnectionUse the TransitGatewayId property to specify the ID of the transit gateway associated with the VPN connection. Use the VpnGatewayId property to specify the ID of the virtual private gateway at the AWS side of the VPN connection. AWS::ECS::ClusterUse the Tags property to apply metadata to clusters ... Read More

Feed: AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog. Author: AWS Admin. By Jennifer Davis, Product Marketing at AWS Training and Certification You can now register for the new AWS Certified Alexa Skill Builder – Specialty certification, the industry’s first and only certification that validates your ability to build, test, and publish Alexa Skills. This offering enables AWS Partner Network (APN) Partners to validate their Alexa and cloud expertise with an industry-recognized credential, building credibility among your clients and prospects. With Alexa, you can reach customers through more than 100 million Alexa-enabled devices. “Our clients are looking for more innovative ways to drive ... Read More

Feed: AWS Architecture Blog. In this episode of This is My Architecture, filmed in 2018 on the last day of re:Invent (a learning conference hosted by Amazon Web Services for the global cloud computing community), FICO lead Software Engineer Sven Ahlfeld talks to AWS Solutions Architect Tom Jones about how the company uses a combination of AWS Lambda and AWS Step Functions to architect an on-demand solution for fraud detection and anti-money laundering.When you think of FICO, you probably thing credit score. And that’s true: founded in 1956, FICO introduced analytic solutions–such as credit scoring–that have made credit more widely ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. AWS CodeBuild is now available to customers in the AWS GovCloud (US-West) Region. AWS CodeBuild is a fully managed continuous integration service in the cloud. CodeBuild compiles source code, runs tests, and produces software packages that are ready to deploy. With CodeBuild, you don’t need to provision, manage, and scale your own build servers. CodeBuild scales continuously and processes multiple builds concurrently, so your builds are not left waiting in a queue. You can get started quickly by using prepackaged build environments, or you can create custom build environments that use your own build tools. For more ... Read More

Feed: AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog. Author: AWS Admin. By Geert Wenes, Partner Solutions Architect at AWSMany high performance computing (HPC) and grid customers with large technical and on-premises computing systems select IBM Spectrum LSF and IBM Spectrum Symphony for policy-driven control and scheduling. Spectrum Symphony schedules tasks very fast: in milliseconds, rather than in seconds for conventional schedulers. It also supports tens of thousands of compute nodes and hundreds of applications on a scalable, shared, and heterogeneous multi-site grid. For you, this translates into better application performance, better throughput, better utilization, and the ability to respond quickly to business ... Read More

Feed: The Internet of Things on AWS – Official Blog. Author: Rahul Sareen. One of the core tenets of managing IoT devices is provisioning, which is the process of registering a device on a particular platform or a system. When bootstrapping your devices, it’s important to establish mutual authentication between the device and an Internet of Things (IoT) endpoint to prevent threats like man-in-the-middle attacks. Device certificates are by far the most secure means of authentication, and generally the first choice for device identity.In this post, we do a deep dive into how AWS IoT Core and AWS IoT Device Management help ... Read More