Tag: EC2

Feed: MariaDB Knowledge Base Article Feed. Author: . AWS IAM Role Configuration We have added a new feature in Columnstore 5.5.2 that allows you to use AWS IAM roles in order to connect to S3 buckets without explicitly entering credentials into the storagemanager.cnf config file. You will need to modify the IAM role of your Amazon EC2 instance to allow for this. Please follow the AWS documentation before beginning this process. It is important to note that you must update the AWS S3 endpoint based on your chosen region otherwise you might face delays in propagation as discussed here and ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. AWS Launch Wizard now gives you the option to specify a private IP address of your choice for each EC2 instance in your SAP deployment. This makes it easy to adhere to organizational security/ governance processes that dictate which IP addresses are permissible. Prior to this launch, AWS Launch Wizard would automatically select an available private IP address within the subnet range where your SAP deployments are happening. For some customers, this meant waiting for network teams to open firewalls or adjust other security/governance controls post-deployment to access the system. Now, you can specify available IP addresses ... Read More

Feed: AWS Architecture Blog. Originally published 21 April 2020 to the Field Notes blog, and updated in August 2020 with new prechecks to the account enrollment script.  Since the launch of AWS Control Tower, customers have been asking for the ability to deploy AWS Control Tower in their existing AWS Organizations and to extend governance to those accounts in their organization. We are happy that you can now deploy AWS Control Tower in your existing AWS Organizations. The accounts that you launched before deploying AWS Control Tower, what we refer to as unenrolled accounts, remain outside AWS Control Towers’ governance ... Read More

Feed: AWS for SAP. Author: Axel Streichardt. Introduction Recently, SAP announced RISE with SAP, an offering that enables you to upgrade to SAP S/4HANA more easily through a single-tenant, SAP-managed ERP implementation. RISE with SAP further simplifies SAP S/4HANA adoption by bundling the technology needed to execute your cloud journey into a single offer with one contract. This offering delivers a standard production SLA of 99.7% (99.5% non-PROD) on the core RISE with SAP offering (and a 99.9% SLA with a price uplift), as well as a 20% reduction¹ in total cost of ownership (TCO) over five years compared to ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling now allows you to view deleted Auto Scaling groups in the scaling history. Previously if you deleted an Auto Scaling group, you need to either maintain the record of scaling activities for deleted Auto Scaling groups or ask support team to get the record for the same. Now, you can specify one additional parameter in a describe call to get a description of the scaling history for deleted Auto Scaling groups. This makes it easier to keep a record of scaling activities after an application has been shut down. Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. Starting today, customers can run macOS Big Sur (11.2.1) as Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) on EC2 Mac instances. macOS Big Sur is the current major macOS release from Apple, and introduces multiple new capabilities and performance improvements over prior macOS versions. macOS Big Sur will support running Xcode versions 12.5 and later, which will include additional SDKs for iOS 14.5, iPadOS 14.5, tvOS 14.5, watchOS 7.4, and macOS Big Sur 11.3. Customers can now also access Amazon EFS file systems from EC2 Mac instances running macOS Big Sur. macOS Big Sur AMIs are AWS supported images that ... Read More

Feed: AWS Public Sector Blog. Author: Mark Schreiber. Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced the custom built Arm-based Graviton series of instances for Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) in 2018. The second series, Graviton2 instances, utilize 64-bit Arm Neoverse cores and deliver up to 40 percent better price performance over comparable current generation x86-based instances. At re:Invent 2020, AWS added to the ARM portfolio with Graviton2-based C6g compute and R6g database instances. The AWS Cloud gives genomics researchers access to a wide variety of instance types and chip architectures and this elasticity allows us to rethink genomics workflows when running ... Read More

Feed: AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog. Author: Emma Button. By Emma Button, Co-Founder at nubeGo Automatically identifying and upgrading existing SSD volumes to take advantage of the new gp3 general purpose volumes for Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) can help organizations reduce storage costs by up to 20 percent. It also helps you improve IOPS and throughput of your EBS volumes. In this post, you will learn how to automatically upgrade your existing gp2 volumes, without interruption, to the next generation of general purpose SSD volumes using AWS Systems Manager. The use of AWS Systems Manager to execute Automation ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. Starting today, you can access Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) file systems from your Amazon EC2 Mac instances running macOS Big Sur. You can now mount your Amazon EFS file systems on your instances by using the Amazon EFS client, an open source toolset, installed using the Homebrew package manager. You can also mount your Amazon EFS file systems on your instances using the macOS native NFS client version 4.0. To learn more about mounting Amazon EFS file systems on EC2 Mac instances, see the Amazon EFS documentation. Amazon EFS provides a simple, serverless, set-and-forget elastic ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. Starting today, the latest generation of burstable, general purpose Amazon EC2 T4g instances are now available in Asia Pacific (Seoul) region. These instances are powered by Arm-based AWS Graviton2 processors and deliver up to 40% better price performance over T3 instances. The T4g instances provide a baseline level of CPU performance with the ability to burst CPU usage at any time for as long as required. They offer a balance of compute, memory, and network resources for a broad spectrum of general purpose workloads, including large scale micro-services, caching servers, search engine indexing, e-commerce platforms, small and ... Read More