Tag: Availability

Feed: AWS Big Data Blog. AWS Glue is a fully managed extract, transform, and load (ETL) service that makes it easy to prepare and load data for analytics. AWS Glue uses connections to access certain types of source and target data stores, as described in the AWS Glue documentation.By default, you can use AWS Glue to create connections to data stores in the same AWS account and AWS Region as the one where you have AWS Glue resources. In this blog post, we describe how to access data stores in an account or AWS Region different from the one where ... Read More

Feed: AWS Big Data Blog. re:Invent 2018 is around the corner! This year, data and analytics tracks are bigger than ever.This blog post highlights the data and analytics sessions at re:Invent 2018. If you’re attending this year, you want to check out the sessions, workshops, chalk talks, and builder sessions that we have at the conference. As in previous years, you can find these events in various topic categories, such as Analytics, Deep Learning, AI Summit, Serverless, Architecture, and Databases. We have great sessions from Intuit, Nike, Intel, WuXi NextCODE, Warner Brothers, AutoDesk, NFL, SendGrid, McDonald, AirBnB, Hilton, Guardian Life, ... Read More

Feed: AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog. Author: AWS Admin. By Tom Tasker, EMEA Storage Partner Solutions Architect at AWSThe most commonly used file shares have traditionally taken the form of dedicated and special purpose hardware in the datacenter, managed by storage specialists. The files are hosted, secured, and delivered either via Network File System (NFS) exports for Unix or Server Message Block (SMB) shares for Windows. In this post, we’ll take a look at a solution from SoftNAS, an AWS Partner Network (APN) Advanced Technology Partner with the AWS Storage Competency. Their solution can consolidate file shares onto Amazon Web ... Read More

Feed: What's New. Amazon EFS provides simple, scalable, elastic file system for Linux-based workloads for use with AWS Cloud services and on-premises resources. It is easy to use and offers a simple interface that allows you to create and configure file systems quickly and easily. Amazon EFS is built to scale on demand to petabytes without disrupting applications, growing and shrinking automatically as you add and remove files, so your applications have the storage they need – when they need it. It is designed to provide massively parallel shared access to thousands of Amazon EC2 instances, enabling your applications to ... Read More

Feed: AWS Government, Education, & Nonprofits Blog. Author: publicsector. AWS EdStart members are transforming education in every corner of the globe. Read on for more about three of our members – ArcLab, Lightbulb Education, and Yellowdig. Each of these EdTechs rely on AWS to create a more student-centric learning experience. ArcLab: ArcLab is an interactive Nano Learning SaaS platform built for organizations to easily create effective training for employees. With their platform, organizations can improve their teams’ job performances and livelihoods through more effective training. The platform offers simple content templates, design customizability, advanced learner analytics, and NanoCredentials (digital badges) ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Sercan Guler. Today we are excited to announce the general availability of static websites on Azure Storage, which is now available in all public cloud regions. What is a static website? Static websites refer to websites that can be loaded and served statically from a pre-defined set of files. You can now build a static website using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript files that are hosted on Azure Storage. In contrast, if you want to host a dynamic website with the ASP.NET, Java, or Node runtime, use Azure Web Apps and rely on the runtime to ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Sujay Talasila. Azure offers built-in disaster recovery (DR) solution for Azure Virtual Machines through Azure Site Recovery (ASR). In addition to the broadest global coverage, Azure has the most comprehensive resiliency strategy in the industry from mitigating rack level failures with Availability Sets and data center failures with Availability Zones to protecting against large-scale events with failover to separate regions with ASR. A common question we get is about costs associated with configuring DR for Azure virtual machines. We have listened and prioritized. Configuring disaster recovery for Azure VMs using ASR will incur the following ... Read More

Feed: What's New. AWS is announcing the immediate availability of the new AWS Europe (Stockholm) Region. The Stockholm Region joins Frankfurt, Ireland, London and Paris as the fifth AWS Region in Europe, and the 20th AWS Region worldwide. The AWS Europe (Stockholm) Region consists of three Availability Zones and with this launch, the AWS Global Infrastructure now offers 60 Availability Zones worldwide, serving customers in over 190 countries. The new AWS Europe (Stockholm) Region adds to the existing infrastructure AWS already has in the Nordics, which includes three Edge Network Locations in Sweden, and one each in Finland, Denmark and ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Asavari Tayal. Azure Functions provides a powerful programming model for accelerated development and serverless hosting of event-driven applications. Ever since we announced the general availability of the Azure Functions 2.0 runtime, support for Python has been one of our top requests. At Microsoft Connect() last week, we announced the public preview of Python support in Azure Functions. This post gives an overview of the newly introduced experiences and capabilities made available through this feature. What's in this release? With this release, you can now develop your Functions using Python 3.6, based on the open-source Functions ... Read More

Feed: What's New. You can now publish logs from your RDS for PostgreSQL databases to Amazon CloudWatch Logs in Amazon RDS. Supported logs include PostgreSQL system logs and upgrade logs. Publishing these logs to CloudWatch Logs allows you to maintain continuous visibility into PostgreSQL system logs, and upgrade logs for your PostgreSQL databases. For example, you can set up Amazon CloudWatch Alarms to notify you on frequent restarts which are recorded in the PostgreSQL system log. Similarly, alarms for events recorded in PostgreSQL logs can be created to alert on unwanted changes made to your databases. You may also enable ... Read More