Author: Amazon Web Services

Feed: What's New. Amazon EC2 Spot now allows Amazon EBS-backed instances to be stopped in the event of interruption, instead of being terminated when capacity is no longer available at your preferred price. Spot can then fulfill your request by restarting instances from a stopped state when capacity is available within your price and time requirements. To use this new feature, choose “stop” instead of “terminate” as the interruption behavior when submitting a persistent Spot request. When you choose “stop”, Spot will shut down your instance upon interruption. The EBS root device and attached EBS volumes are saved, and their ... Read More

Feed: What's New. Today, Amazon AppStream 2.0 is introducing On-Demand fleets, a new type of fleet that can help you optimize your streaming costs. With this addition, you can now select between two different types of fleets when building your AppStream 2.0 streaming environment. With Always-On fleets, users get instant-on access to their applications, but you are charged streaming fees for all instances in the fleet, even if no users are connected. With On-Demand fleets, users experience a small delay accessing their first application. However, you are only charged streaming fees for instances when users are connected, and a small, ... Read More

Feed: What's New. AWS Snowball is a data transport solution that accelerates moving terabytes to petabytes of data into and out of AWS using storage appliances designed to be secure for physical transport. Using Snowball helps to eliminate challenges that can be encountered with large-scale data transfers including high network costs, long transfer times, and security concerns. Beyond large-scale data transfers, AWS Snowball also supports importing data from a Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS).  AWS Snowball Edge is a 100TB data transfer device with on-board storage and compute power for select AWS capabilities. In addition to transferring data to AWS, ... Read More

Feed: What's New. The included AWS Mobile Hub configuration includes a functioning Serverless backend that allows users to sign-up and sign-in using Amazon Cognito User Pools and Federated Identities including MFA support. Users can store content in Amazon S3 which is secured on a per-user basis and the starter application demonstrates how to track these in an Amazon DynamoDB table that is accessed via Amazon API Gateway and AWS Lambda. The starter can be fully customized and React Native Higher Order Components (HOCs) are provided for developers to use in their own applications. The React Native starter kit is released ... Read More

Feed: AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog. Author: Lauren Small. By David Velez, AWS Digital Marketing Manager The AWS Partner Webinar Series is a selection of live and recorded online presentations that cover a broad range of topics at varying technical levels and scale. Each webinar is hosted by an AWS Solutions Architect and an AWS Competency Partner who has successfully helped customers evaluate and implement the tools, techniques, and technologies of AWS. These webinars feature technical sessions with AWS solutions architects and engineers, live demonstrations, customer examples, and expert Q&A sessions. See the upcoming webinars below: Salesforce Webinars Salesforce IoT: Monetize ... Read More

Feed: AWS Government, Education, & Nonprofits Blog. Author: publicsector. The deadline to implement National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Special Publication 800-171 is fast approaching. Beginning in January 2018, you may miss out on government funding that stipulates its implementation if you have not taken action.In 2015, NIST published Special Publication (SP) 800-171 – Protecting Controlled Unclassified Information in Non-federal Information Systems and Organizations – introducing the standards for non-federal entities, such as academic institutions working under a government contract. NIST 800-171 was meant to take the security controls from a larger NIST publication, NIST 800-53, and assist non-federal ... Read More

Feed: What's New. CodeDeploy is a service that automates code deployments to any instance, including Amazon EC2 instances and instances running on-premises. AWS CodeDeploy is available in the US East (Ohio), US East (N. Virginia), US West (N. California), US West (Oregon), Canada(Central), EU (Ireland), EU (Frankfurt), EU (London), Asia Pacific (Sydney), Asia Pacific (Seoul), Asia Pacific (Singapore), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), and South America (Sao Paulo) regions.  For more information on CodeDeploy: ... Read More

Feed: AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog. Author: Ian Scofield. By Ian Scofield, Juan Villa, and Mike Ruiz GameDay is an immersive, team-based event we’ve hosted at AWS Summits and re:Invent over the past few years. The event has teams of players settling into a challenging—and hopefully entertaining—scenario as DevOps leads at Unicorn.Rentals, a popular startup minutes away from the very public launch of a widely anticipated product. For more information, see the GameDay website. Of course, we have a lot going on behind the scenes to make GameDay work. Beyond all the enthusiastic acting and silly props, you’ll find a ... Read More

Feed: The Internet of Things on AWS – Official Blog. Author: Olawale Oladehin. Post by Marcos Ortiz, an AWS Solutions ArchitectThe AWS IoT platform allows you to use substitution templates to augment the JSON data returned when a rule is triggered and AWS IoT performs a rule action. The syntax for a substitution template is ${expression}, where expression can be any expression supported by AWS IoT in SELECT or WHERE clauses. For more information about supported expressions, see AWS IoT SQL Reference. The substitution template is an important feature for AWS IoT customers, especially when there’s a need  to dynamically add some contextual information that is ... Read More

Feed: AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog. Author: Lauren Small. By Peter Sideris, AWS Technical Account Manager Bridgewater Associates, based in Westport, CT, is a major investment management firm with more than $150 billion in assets that it manages for a global customer base of pension funds, endowments, foundations, central banks, and national governments. It is also an Amazon Web Services (AWS) customer that we’ve worked closely with over the past year and half, developing a partnership that helps Bridgewater leverage the tools—and benefits—of the AWS Cloud. Last December, Bridgewater Systems Engineer Joel Thompson approached us with questions around the features ... Read More