Tag: Amazon

Feed: AWS Compute Blog. Author: Chris Munns. On May 14th we announced an upcoming update to the AWS Lambda and AWS Lambda@Edge execution environments. In that announcement we shared that we are updating the execution environment to a more recent version of Amazon Linux. This newer execution environment brings updates that offer improvements in capabilities, performance, security, and updated packages that your application code might interface with. The previous post explained approaches to proactively testing against the new update, and methods to update your code to be compatible in the rare case you were impacted.So far, we’ve heard from many ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. P3dn instances come in one size, P3dn.24xlarge, and offer twice as much GPU memory as previous P3 instances to enable ML training on higher resolution images and can accommodate larger batch sizes for more accurate training results and faster throughput. New Intel Skylake CPUs also offer Intel’s AVX-512 instruction set to help accelerate pre-processing of images. Finally, the 100 Gbps networking provides better scaling efficiency when scaling out workloads across multiple instances. These instances are great for machine learning training along with HPC jobs like 3D rendering, video transcoding, and financial risk modeling. With this regional expansion, ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. Amazon EC2 bare metal instances provide your applications with direct access to the Intel® Xeon® Scalable processor and memory resources of the underlying server. These instances are ideal for workloads that require access to the hardware feature set (such as Intel® VT-x), for applications that need to run in non-virtualized environments for licensing or support requirements, or for customers who wish to use their own hypervisor. 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 ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. You can now use Amazon Elasticsearch Service in applications that are subject to Service Organization Control (SOC) compliance. Amazon Elasticsearch Service is now SOC 1, 2, and 3 compliant, allowing you to get deep insight into the security processes and controls that protect customer data. SOC compliance reports are often leveraged across diverse industries, such as technology, healthcare, banking, and financial services, and used for Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) efforts ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. AWS Backup offers a centralized, managed service to back up data across AWS services in the cloud and on premises using AWS Storage Gateway. AWS Backup serves as a single dashboard for backup, restore, and policy-based retention of different AWS resources, including Amazon EBS volumes, Amazon RDS databases, Amazon DynamoDB tables, Amazon EFS file systems, and AWS Storage Gateway volumes. With AWS CloudFormation, customers can further simplify their backup tasks using templates that specify the resources to be protected, when and how to protect those resources, and how those backups will be organized.  AWS CloudFormation support for ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. In a callback pattern, Step Functions pauses execution of the workflow until your application returns a token through the Step Functions application programming interface. This helps you automate workflows for applications that need human activities such as review and approval of documents or creating and managing work items in a customer support application. You can also use the callback pattern to build custom integrations with third-party services. Step Functions supports callback patterns with Amazon ECS, Amazon SNS, Amazon SQS, AWS Fargate, and AWS Lambda. AWS Step Functions allows you to add resilient workflow automation to your applications ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. Amazon API Gateway now offers tag-based access control using AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) policies, allowing you to set more fine-grained access controls for all API Gateway resources. Tags are simple key-value pairs that you can define on API Gateway resources to categorize them by purpose, owner, or other criteria.  ... Read More

Feed: AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog. Author: Kelly Boeckman. By Henry Axelrod, Partner Solutions Architect at AWSBy Kelly Boeckman, Marketing Programs Manager – Storage at AWSServers, networking, and storage. Long has this trinity formed the foundation of IT, and all three are equally critical for any given workload’s success. Storage is self-describing—it’s where data lives. Without source data driving it, system communication doesn’t happen, processes halt, and applications can’t run. Data lives in storage, and storage protects the data. Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) was one of the first services launched by Amazon Web Services (AWS) in 2006. Since ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. You can use AWS IoT Device Tester to easily determine if your devices running Amazon FreeRTOS can be authenticated by and interoperate with AWS IoT Services. Also, passing the AWS IoT Device Tester tests is required in order to be listed in the AWS Partner Device Catalog as part of the AWS Device Qualification Program. AWS IoT Device Tester for Amazon FreeRTOS verifies that your implementation of Amazon FreeRTOS libraries works well with your microcontroller board device drivers. In addition, it also  performs automated end-to-end tests with AWS IoT Core to give you confidence that your microcontroller ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. The SQL Server Multi-AZ deployment option offers you an easier and more effective way to design and operate applications and databases, making them more available, fault tolerant, and scalable than traditional single datacenter infrastructures or multi-datacenter infrastructures. When you create your SQL Server database instance to run using Multi-AZ on SQL Server 2016 or 2017 latest minor versions for the Enterprise Edition database engine, Amazon RDS will automatically provision a primary database in one Availability Zone and maintain a synchronous "standby" replica in a different Availability Zone using Always On Availability Groups. If you are modifying an ... Read More