Author: Amazon Web Services

Feed: Recent Announcements. You can create an export with just a few clicks on the Amazon RDS Management Console or using the AWS SDK or CLI. Extracting data from a snapshot doesn’t impact the performance of your database, as the export operation is performed on your snapshot and not your database. The extracted data in Apache Parquet format is portable, so you can consume it with query services such as Amazon Athena or big data processing frameworks such as Apache Spark. For more information, including instructions on getting started, read the Aurora documentation or Amazon RDS documentation. Amazon RDS Snapshot ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. In the policy simulator, administrators can now create a permissions boundary policy, assign it to an IAM principal with existing IAM policies and then simulate an AWS service action to evaluate the impact of the permissions boundary policy on the IAM principal’s effective permissions for the simulated AWS service action ... Read More

Feed: AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog. Author: AWS Admin. By Peter McCarron, Sr. Manager, Partner Marketing at HashiCorpBy Paul Banks, Sr. Engineer, Consul at HashiCorpThe adoption of service mesh has been accelerated by the emergence of microservices. Organizations leverage orchestration tools, like HashiCorp Nomad or Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) for deploying services, and then use a service mesh such as HashiCorp Consul or AWS App Mesh to manage the connections between them. These service mesh solutions provide a number of important capabilities, such as traffic management, secure connections with mTLS (mutual TLS authentication), and load balancing for managing services ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. Amazon MSK is a fully managed service for Apache Kafka that makes it easy for you to build and run applications that use Apache Kafka as a data store. Amazon MSK is 100% compatible with Apache Kafka, which enables you to quickly migrate your existing Apache Kafka workloads to Amazon MSK with confidence or build new ones from scratch. With Amazon MSK, you spend more time innovating on applications and less time managing clusters. To learn how to get started, see the Amazon MSK Developer Guide ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. This support allows you to run your .NET applications on the latest versions of Windows Server, .NET, and .NET Core, and also benefit from a fully managed Elastic Beanstalk environment that automatically provides capacity provisioning, load balancing, auto-scaling, application health monitoring, and the application of patches and updates to the underlying platform. You can deploy your applications to Elastic Beanstalk using AWS Toolkit for Visual Studio, AWS Management Console, APIs, SDKs, the AWS CLI, and the Elastic Beanstalk CLI. Or, you can migrate your ASP.NET website to Elastic Beanstalk automatically using the Windows Web Application Migration Assistant ... Read More

Feed: AWS Government, Education, & Nonprofits Blog. Author: AWS Public Sector Blog Team. At the Education World Forum (EWF) in London, global leader for workforce and education at Amazon Web Services (AWS) Andrew Ko discussed the workforce shortage in cloud skills – and the importance of piloting initiatives that “cloudify” curriculum to skill-up, upskill, and reskill students, educators, the current workforce, and IT leaders. As the need increases for skills in technology fields – particularly the cloud – the supply of talent has not matched the demand. Organizations around the world are struggling to identify, recruit, and hire cloud-skilled employees ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. The AWS Deep Learning Containers are available today with bug fixes to the SageMaker integration with Tensorflow Server and the latest version of SageMaker Debugger. You can launch the new versions of Deep Learning Container on Amazon SageMaker, Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS), self-managed Kubernetes on Amazon EC2, and Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS). For a complete list of frameworks and versions supported by the AWS Deep Learning Containers, see release notes.  ... Read More

Feed: AWS Government, Education, & Nonprofits Blog. Author: John McGrath. Participants and volunteers at the re:Invent 2019 Code Green workshop and hackathon. At the 2019 re:Invent conference in Las Vegas, Amazon Sustainability and the Amazon Sustainability Data Initiative (ASDI) hosted a four-hour workshop and hackathon to showcase ASDI’s collection of sustainability-related datasets and new ways to put those datasets to use. Called “Code Green,” the event also introduced conference attendees and participants to geospatial weather and climate data on Amazon Web Services (AWS). Participants walked through the creation of an app designed to select the most sustainable location for an ... Read More

Feed: AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog. Author: Tom Tasker. By Tom Tasker, EMEA Storage Partner Solutions Architect at AWSMicrosoft SQL (MSSQL) is an enterprise-level database application used by some of the world’s largest companies. With business-critical data housed in MSSQL databases, high availability (HA) and disaster recovery (DR) are essential features of any MSSQL deployment that businesses have to architect for. With Amazon Web Services (AWS), server resources for large MSSQL deployments can be taken out of the data center and run on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances. The ability to boot these instances in minutes provides ease ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. Deletion protection is enabled by default for databases created through the AWS Management Console. You can also turn deletion protection on or off for an existing database cluster in the AWS Management Console or the AWS Command Line Interface. When you request the deletion of a database with deletion protection in the AWS Management Console, you may not continue without first modifying the cluster and disabling deletion protection. You will get an error when you attempt to delete the final database instance attached to a protected cluster in the AWS Management Console. Deletion protection is available for ... Read More