Tag: Amazon EC2

Feed: What's New. These AMIs, along with the previously announced .NET Core on Amazon Linux 2 and Ubuntu AMIs, make it easier for you to modernize .NET and SQL workloads on free Linux-based operating systems, without the need to buy Windows Server licenses. You can launch SQL Server 2017 on Ubuntu Server 16.04 and Amazon Linux 2 Candidate 2 instances on-demand using License Included (LI) AMIs directly from the Amazon EC2 console. The AMIs are available in all four editions – SQL Server Web Edition, SQL Server Express Edition, SQL Server Standard Edition, and SQL Server Enterprise Edition. You can ... Read More

Feed: AWS Government, Education, & Nonprofits Blog. Author: publicsector. At Amazon, our culture of innovation runs deep. It’s always Day 1, which means we are constantly looking around corners for the next big idea to help us innovate on behalf of our customers. From adding new capabilities, such as voice donations with Alexa, to developing over 1,400 new AWS services last year, our commitment to delivering the highest value to our customers is largely driven by our ability to think big.As we celebrate World Creativity and Innovation Day, we are reminded of the powerful alliance between creativity and innovation, and ... Read More

Feed: What's New. With AWS Blockchain Templates, you can deploy Ethereum and Hyperledger Fabric frameworks using managed and certified AWS CloudFormation templates. AWS Blockchain Templates allow you to focus on building your blockchain applications instead of spending time and energy on manual setup of your blockchain network. AWS Blockchain Templates deploy the blockchain framework you choose as containers on an Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) cluster, or directly on an EC2 instance running Docker. Your blockchain network is created in your own Amazon VPC, allowing you to use your VPC subnets and network Access Control Lists. You can assign granular ... Read More

Feed: Hortonworks Blog – Hortonworks. Author: Brandon Wilson. Enterprises are increasingly moving portions or entire datacenters to the cloud in order to minimize their physical footprint, minimize operational overhead, and shorten their infrastructure acquisition cycles. An incidental benefit is that cloud services, like cloud-based object storage, bring a new set of tools to a Hadoop architect. At Hortonworks, our customers use a number of different cloud architectures but we frequently recommend two when it comes to using Apache Hive for analytics and reporting. In this blog, we will present those two architectures, examine their advantages and disadvantages, and provide reproducible ... Read More

Feed: What's New. The AWS Deep Learning AMIs for Ubuntu and Amazon Linux now come with advanced optimizations for TensorFlow 1.7 tailored to deliver higher-performance training across Amazon EC2 C5 and P3 instances.  ... Read More

Feed: What's New. We are pleased to announce the general availability of the latest release of Thinkbox Deadline, v10.0.13.6. This maintenance release includes greater control over Amazon EC2 Spot Fleet instances as well as bug fixes. With Deadline 10.0.13.6, customers have greater control over their Amazon EC2 Spot Fleet instances, with the option to either maintain the number of instances you’ve requested, or to automatically shut them down when they’ve been idle for a period of time. This option can be found under the Settings tab in the Spot Fleet Configuration window ... Read More

Feed: What's New. Starting today, Amazon EC2 C5 instances are available in the AWS Asia Pacific (Seoul) and AWS Asia Pacific (Tokyo) Regions. C5 instances, the next generation of the Amazon EC2 Compute Optimized instances powered by 3.0 GHz Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors (Skylake), were introduced in November 2017. C5 instances are built using a new light-weight hypervisor, Nitro Hypervisor, which provides practically all of the compute and memory resources to customers’ workloads ... Read More

Feed: What's New. Starting today, Amazon EC2 M5 instances are available in the AWS Asia Pacific (Tokyo) and South America (São Paulo) Regions. M5 instances, the next generation of the Amazon EC2 General Purpose compute instances, were introduced in November 2017 to offer a balance of compute, memory, storage and networking resources for a broad range of customers' workloads ... Read More

Feed: What's New. Amazon Linux 2 LTS Candidate 2 is the latest release candidate of the next generation Amazon Linux operating system. It incorporates feedback received for the first LTS Candidate (2017.12 build) that was released on December 13, 2017. LTS Candidate 2 provides an updated version of the Linux Kernel (4.14) tuned for optimal performance on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), systemd support, a newer compiler (gcc 7.3), an updated C runtime (glibc 2.26), newer tooling (binutils 2.29.1), and the latest software packages through the extras mechanism ... Read More

Feed: AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog. Author: Francisco Javier Garcia Romero. By Francisco Javier Garcia Romero, Partner Solutions Architect at AWS The pace of adoption of Amazon Web Services (AWS) for enterprises’ core SAP workloads has been growing steadily the past few years. Already in 2018, we are seeing increased demand and interest for migration and deployment of SAP workloads on the AWS cloud. With Linke, an AWS Partner Network (APN) Premier Consulting Partner with the AWS SAP Competency, enterprises can execute SAP-centric digital transformation strategies including new SAP deployments, database migrations to SAP HANA, or projects that integrate SAP systems with ... Read More