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Feed: Recent Announcements. AWS Glue Studio makes ETL accessible to the many users who are new to Apache Spark programming and to users who are accustomed to ETL tools with boxes-and-arrows interfaces. Without writing code, users of all experience levels can now take advantage of big data processing on AWS Glue’s serverless Apache Spark-based ETL platform. They can also use the AWS Glue Studio job monitoring dashboard to get a global view of their ETL execution and resource usage. AWS Glue Studio is available in these AWS regions: US East (N. Virginia), US East (Ohio), US West (N. California), US ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. You can now schedule application-consistent backups, define their lifecycle policies, and perform consistent restores with AWS Backup - a managed backup service for in-cloud AWS services. To take application-consistent backups, AWS Backup integrates with AWS System Manager (SSM) to provide VSS-enabled, consistent backups while your applications are running, without requiring custom scripts or shutting down your instances. Getting started is as simple as a single click to enable application consistency, under advanced options when creating a backup plan in the AWS Backup console.   With AWS Backup, you can centrally configure backup policies and monitor backup activity ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. AWS Lake Formation is a service that makes it easy to set up a secure data lake in days. A data lake is a centralized, curated, and secured repository that stores all your data, both in its original form and prepared for analysis. A data lake enables you to break down data silos and combine different types of analytics to gain insights and guide better business decisions.   Creating a data lake with Lake Formation is as simple as defining where your data resides and what data access and security policies you want to apply. Lake Formation ... Read More

Feed: AWS Public Sector Blog. Author: Ray Rogers. Delivering modern, accessible virtual healthcare solutions, such as telemedicine, with the cloud is a rapidly expanding area of healthcare in part due to the COVID-19 pandemic, according to CNBC.Telehealth solutions make virtual, real-time interactions between patient and provider possible. These solutions can be beneficial for both patients and care providers, letting patients receive care without having to step into a doctor’s office—a key feature that has benefits for those in hard-to-reach or rural areas and patients with mobility issues. Additionally, these solutions can help reduce physical traffic in hospitals, which is imperative ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. This feature can help you meet your cross-Region compliance and regulatory requirements, and to develop a disaster recovery and business continuity plan. You can restore tables from a few megabytes to hundreds of terabytes of data, with no impact on the performance or availability of your production applications.  You can restore your DynamoDB table data across AWS Regions in the AWS Management Console, the DynamoDB API, or the AWS Command Line Interface. You pay only for the data you transfer out of the source Region and for restoring backups as new tables in destination Regions.  ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. AWS Ground Station is a fully managed service that lets you control satellite communications, process satellite data, and scale your satellite operations. Global expansion to the Africa (Cape Town) Region now enables satellite owners and operators to connect with their satellites and process their space workloads more frequently. A low-latitude AWS Ground Station Region reduces the time between contacts for Low-Earth Orbit satellites and offers increased utility for customers whose operations require downlink in this range. Governments, businesses, and universities can benefit from this more timely satellite data to make more precise, data driven decisions.   Customers ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. Available globally, AWS Security Hub gives you a comprehensive view of your security posture across your AWS accounts. With Security Hub, you now have a single place that aggregates, organizes, and prioritizes your security alerts, or findings, from multiple AWS services, such as Amazon GuardDuty, Amazon Inspector, Amazon Macie, AWS Firewall Manager, and AWS IAM Access Analyzer, as well as from over 45 AWS Partner solutions. You can also continuously monitor your environment using automated security checks based on standards, such as AWS Foundational Security Best Practices, the CIS AWS Foundations Benchmark, and the Payment Card Industry ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. You can launch new instances in the Amazon RDS Management Console or using the AWS CLI. Upgrading a database instance to Graviton2 requires a simple instance type modification, using the same steps as any other instance modification. If you are currently on a relevant major version that is supported by Graviton2, such as RDS for MySQL 8.0.17, then you can move to Graviton2 by stopping the existing instance and changing the instance type to R6g or M6g instance using the AWS Management Console or AWS CLI. Your applications will continue to work as normal as you will ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. In these courses, expert instructors discuss how to build a modern, greenfield serverless backend on AWS. Learners will explore how to build an API-driven application using Amazon API Gateway for serverless API hosting, AWS Lambda for serverless compute, and Amazon Cognito for serverless authentication. You will also get hands-on experience in guided labs as you review different configurations for Lambda and study how to create and manage Lambda functions. You will also learn how to optimize APIs throughout the entire serverless workflow using AWS services in your choice of Java, Node.js, or Python. These new self-paced digital ... Read More

Feed: AWS Public Sector Blog. Author: AWS Public Sector Blog Team. As schools return for their academic years amid a global pandemic, many questions persist around how best to enable both teachers and students to learn remotely, including accessing materials and applications in a secure and suitable form. Similarly, staff and administrators must have a reliable system for handling confidential information. For some, the answer is found in virtual private network (VPN) connectivity and virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI). Streaming applications over the internet instead of having them physically installed on devices and desktops can save costs and address security concerns ... Read More