Tag: Amazon EC2

Feed: What's New. Amazon Inspector is an on-demand security assessment service that helps AWS customers improve the security of their Amazon EC2 environment and the applications deployed on them. Inspector gives customers the flexibility to check EC2 instances for vulnerabilities and evaluate their instance configurations against security benchmarks any time they need. Inspector offers rules packages that allow customers to choose the type of security assessment they wish to run and provides an evaluation of the findings along with recommendations to improve the security of their instances. Customers can start an assessment run with just a few clicks in the ... Read More

Feed: AWS Compute Blog. Author: Roshni Pary. Contributed by Amr Ragab, HPC Application Consultant, AWS Professional ServicesAWS currently supports many managed des­ktop delivery mechanisms. Amazon WorkSpaces and Amazon AppStream 2.0 both deliver managed Windows-based machine images with GPU-backed instances. However, many desktop services and applications are better served through a Linux backed instance. Given the variety of Linux distributions as well as desktop managers, it can be valuable to have a generic solution for provisioning a Linux desktop on Amazon EC2. A GPU-backed instance reduces the computational requirements from the client (local) machine, eliminating the need for a local discrete ... Read More

Feed: AWS Compute Blog. Author: Martin Yip. Want a simpler way to query for the latest Amazon Linux AMI? AWS Systems Manager Parameter Store already allows for querying the latest Windows AMI. Now, support has been expanded to include the latest Amazon Linux AMI. Each Amazon Linux AMI now has its own Parameter Store namespace that is public and describable. Upon querying, an AMI namespace returns only its regional ImageID value.The namespace is made up of two parts: Parameter Store Prefix (tree): /aws/service/ami-amazon-linux-latest/ AMI name alias: (example) amzn-ami-hvm-x86_64-gp2 You can determine an Amazon Linux AMI alias by taking the full ... Read More

Feed: AWS Government, Education, & Nonprofits Blog. Author: publicsector. AWS hosted its first-ever Earth and Space on AWS event in Washington, DC, leading up to the AWS Public Sector Summit. Speakers from Blue Origin, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), DigitalGlobe, and others spoke about the endless possibilities for the future in our solar system and beyond.Teresa Carlson, VP of Worldwide Public Sector, kicked off the half-day event and took the audience through our customer journey across Earth and space. When data is shared on AWS, anyone can analyze it and build services using a broad range of compute and data ... Read More

Feed: AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog. Author: David Velez. By David Velez, Manager, Digital Partner Marketing at AWSBy Martin Yip, Sr. Product Marketing Manager for Amazon EC2 at AWSBy Shreyak Shah, GTM Product Marketing at AWSVMware and Amazon Web Services (AWS) are excited to announce that VMware Cloud on AWS is now available in the AWS Europe (Frankfurt) Region. VMware, an AWS Partner Network (APN) Advanced Technology Partner, and AWS have been working together to release new enterprise capabilities for VMware Cloud on AWS every 90 days, as well as add regional expansions of the service to the AWS US East (N ... Read More

Feed: AWS Compute Blog. Author: Chris Munns. One of the biggest trends in application development today is the use of APIs to power the backend technologies supporting a product. Increasingly, the way mobile, IoT, web applications, or internal services talk to each other and to application frontends is using some API interface.Alongside this trend of building API-powered applications is the move to a microservices application design pattern. A larger application is represented by many smaller application components, also typically communicating via API. The growth of APIs and microservices being used together is driven across all sorts of companies, from startups ... Read More

Feed: AWS Compute Blog. Author: Roshni Pary. Contributed by Amr Ragab, HPC Application Consultant, AWS Professional ServicesAWS currently supports many managed des­ktop delivery mechanisms. Amazon WorkSpaces and Amazon AppStream 2.0 both deliver managed Windows-based machine images with GPU-backed instances. However, many desktop services and applications are better served through a Linux backed instance. Given the variety of Linux distributions as well as desktop managers, it can be valuable to have a generic solution for provisioning a Linux desktop on Amazon EC2. A GPU-backed instance reduces the computational requirements from the client (local) machine, eliminating the need for a local discrete ... Read More

Feed: AWS Government, Education, & Nonprofits Blog. Author: publicsector. In May 2015, the CIO’s office at the U.S. Department of Interior embarked on a mission to provide a secure, scalable platform for the 32 agencies that make up the Federal Geographic Data Committee. The platform provides a managed services environment for agencies to host and share geospatial data, geospatial services and geospatial applications for the public, and with other government agencies and their partners. DOI names GTRI, now Zivaro, the mission partner. GTRI, an AWS Advanced Technology Partner, specializes in the selection, implementation, deployment, and maintenance of AWS environments.The flagship ... Read More

Feed: What's New. With these additional regional launches, M5 instances are now available in the AWS US East (N. Virginia), US East (Ohio), US West (N. California), US West (Oregon), Asia Pacific (Mumbai), Asia Pacific (Seoul), Asia Pacific (Singapore), Asia Pacific (Sydney), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), Canada (Central), Europe (Frankfurt), Europe (Ireland), Europe (London), Europe (Paris), South America (São Paulo) and AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. M5 instances are available in 6 sizes, with 2, 4, 8, 16, 48, and 96 vCPUs and are purchasable as On-Demand, Reserved, Spot and as Dedicated Instances or Dedicated Hosts. To get started, visit the AWS ... Read More

Feed: What's New. With this additional regional launch, C5 instances are now available in the AWS US East (N. Virginia), US East (Ohio), US West (N. California), US West (Oregon), Asia Pacific (Mumbai), Asia Pacific (Seoul), Asia Pacific (Singapore), Asia Pacific (Sydney), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), Canada (Central), Europe (Frankfurt), Europe (Ireland), Europe (London), Europe (Paris), South America (São Paulo) and AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. C5 instances are available in 6 sizes and introduce a new larger size, c5.18xlarge, which provides 72 vCPUs and 144 GiB of memory. They are purchasable as On-Demand, Reserved, Spot and as Dedicated Instances or Dedicated ... Read More