Author: Amazon Web Services

Feed: What's New. Bare metal instances allow EC2 customers to run applications that benefit from deep performance analysis tools, specialized workloads that require direct access to bare metal infrastructure, legacy workloads not supported in virtual environments, and licensing-restricted Tier 1 business critical applications. Bare metal instances also make it possible for customers to run virtualization secured containers such as Clear Linux Containers. Workloads on bare metal instances continue to take advantage of all the comprehensive services and features of the AWS Cloud, such as Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS), Elastic Load Balancer (ELB) and Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC). Bare ... Read More

Feed: What's New. Amazon EC2 C5d instances are available in the US East (N. Virginia), US East (Ohio), US West (Oregon), Canada (Central), and Europe (Ireland) AWS Regions. These instances are available in 6 sizes, with 2, 4, 8, 16, 36, and 72 vCPUs and provide up to 1800 GB of NVMe based SSD instance storage. Amazon EC2 C5d instances are purchasable as On-Demand, Reserved or Spot Instances. To get started, visit the AWS Management Console, AWS Command Line Interface (CLI), and AWS SDKs. To learn more, visit the Amazon EC2 C5 instance page.  ... Read More

Feed: What's New. AWS IAM also provides you with the region and the AWS service that was accessed. These details complement password last used data to provide a more thorough picture of when an IAM user was last active, enabling you to rotate old keys and remove inactive users with greater confidence. You can view access key last used data interactively in the IAM console or programmatically via the API/CLI/SDK ... Read More

Feed: What's New. AWS CloudFormation now offers FIPS 140-2 validated API endpoints in US regions, making it easier for customers to use the service for regulated workloads. These endpoints terminate TLS sessions using a FIPS 140-2 validated cryptographic software module. Support for FIPS 140-2 validated endpoints is available today in US East (N. Virginia), US East (Ohio), US West (N. California), and US West (Oregon). See the Regions and Endpoints page for the endpoint URL details ... Read More

Feed: What's New. This new capability of Amazon Cognito eliminates the need for new users to create a site- or app-specific username and password. It also alleviates the need for your new user to verify an email address, which would have required them to leave your application. To configure a User Pool so it knows how to process OIDC-based authentication requests from a given Identity Provider, simply select a pool and set up a generic OpenID Connect app from the Identity Providers menu.Amazon Cognito's generic OIDC conforms to the OpenID Connect specification, and is available today in the following AWS ... Read More

Feed: AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog. Author: Andrew Kloman. By Andrew Kloman, Partner Solutions Architect at AWSThe time has never been better to build a thriving business on Amazon Web Services (AWS). Moving to the AWS cloud provides companies with more agility, elasticity, cost savings, and the ability to expand their business footprint while developing a global reach to customers. AWS Partner Network (APN) Partners have the opportunity to see a 6X – 11X+ multiplier uplift over AWS spend when delivering a comprehensive suite of value-added services to customers. In this post, I will give APN Consulting Partners an overview of ... Read More

Feed: AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog. Author: Terence Finan. If a company is moving or monitoring a fluid, especially water, it’s likely that Pentair is involved. Pentair’s solutions span a wide range of industries, from energy, food and beverage, and manufacturing, to infrastructure, commercial, and aquaculture.With many of its products installed in relatively remote locations, Pentair is no stranger to developing connected systems. However, in the past, each of those solutions was typically custom-built, leading to long development times, a mismatch of different technologies, and an inability to reuse existing solution components and skill sets across the company’s areas of ... Read More

Feed: AWS Big Data Blog. Regardless of your career path, there’s no denying that attending industry events can provide helpful career development opportunities — not only for improving and expanding your skill sets, but for networking as well. According to this article from PayScale.com, experts estimate that somewhere between 70-85% of new positions are landed through networking.Narrowing our focus to networking opportunities with cloud computing professionals who’re working on tackling some of today’s most innovative and exciting big data solutions, attending big data-focused sessions at an AWS Global Summit is a great place to start. AWS Global Summits are free ... 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: What's New. Higher throughput workflows enable new use cases such as launching data processing workflows from streaming sources like Amazon DynamoDB streams, or starting automated security checks in response to events matching rules in Amazon CloudWatch Events. AWS Step Functions places limits on the size of state machine parameters by default, such as the number of API actions that you can make during a certain time period, and the number of state transitions processed per second. These limits help prevent a misconfigured state machine from consuming all resources of the system. If the default limits do not meet your ... Read More