Tag: EC2

Feed: What's New. You can now launch M5 instances types when using Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) for MySQL and Amazon RDS for MariaDB. Amazon EC2 M5 instances are the next generation of the Amazon EC2 General Purpose compute instances. M5 instance offers a balance of compute, memory, and networking resources for a broad range of database workloads. M5 instances are powered by 2.5 GHz Intel Xeon Scalable processors and deliver improved price/performance compared to M4 instances. To meet the demand of intensive database workloads, M5 instances introduce a new larger sized instance, m5.24xlarge, which provides 96 vCPUs, 384 GiB of memory ... Read More

Feed: AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog. Author: Renata Melnyk. We just announced the new AWS Industrial Software Competency Program for AWS Partner Network (APN) Partners.Launch Partners in this program have built solutions on Amazon Web Services (AWS) targeting one or more of the primary steps in discrete manufacturing or process industries: Product Design, Production Design, and Production/Operations. These solutions follow AWS best practices for building the most secure, high-performing, resilient, and efficient cloud infrastructure for industry applications. The AWS Competency Program helps customers identify and choose the world’s top APN Partner for their AWS projects and workloads. To give you ... Read More

Feed: What's New. You can now specify three new docker flags as parameters in your Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) Task definition. These flags are sysctl (system controls), interactive, and tty (Pseudo terminal). You can also specify interactive and tty flags as parameters in your AWS Fargate Task definitions.The sysctl parameter allows you to have fine grained control on your application's namespaced kernel parameters. Therefore, you can optimize the kernel's behavior to your application's needs without having to configure those parameters at the host-level or worry about impacting other applications.The interactive and tty parameters, allow you to deploy containerized applications ... Read More

Feed: What's New. WordPress is a web publishing platform for building blogs and websites. It can be customized via a wide selection of themes, extensions, and plugins. WordPress High Availability by Bitnami installs the WordPress application on multiple servers (Amazon EC2 instances) in the AWS Cloud for high performance and availability. It also sets up an Amazon Aurora relational database to help you reduce costs, simplify configuration tasks, and scale with ease. The database and WordPress application are set up on different EC2 instances to help improve security and access control. This Quick Start is for IT infrastructure architects, administrators, ... Read More

Feed: AWS Big Data Blog. Bushfires are frequent events in the warmer months of the year when the climate is hot and dry. Countries like Australia and the United States are severely impacted due to the bushfires causing devastating effects to human lives and property. Over the years the prediction of bushfires has been a subject of study in various research projects. Many of these projects use complex machine learning algorithms. These algorithms learn to predict the bushfires from the real-time spread for the fire over a particular geographical region­.In this blog post, we use event processing paradigm provided by ... Read More

Feed: AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog. Author: Phil de Valence. By Barry Tait, Director of Modernization and Cloud Strategies at Modern SystemsMainframe modernization has shifted to go well beyond simple cost-cutting measures. Mainframe legacy owners now expect additional gains such as conversion to maintainable object-oriented languages, shift of infrastructure to leverage elastic Amazon Web Services (AWS), and development of agile-based processes. Demand has driven increased adoption of rules-based automated conversion of legacy languages to Java or C#, or a longer-term strategic refactor to cloud-native architectures. Typical modernization projects see vendor-skilled resources use specialized migration tools, while customers focus primarily on ... Read More

Feed: AWS Compute Blog. Author: Martin Yip. This post is courtesy of Mike Eizensmits, Senior Solutions Architect – AWSMost AWS customers have a significant Windows Server deployment and are also tied to a Microsoft licensing program. When it comes to Microsoft products, such as Windows Server and SQL Server, licensing models can easily dictate Cloud infrastructure solutions. AWS provides several options to support Bring Your Own Licensing (BYOL) as well as EC2 License Included models for non-BYOL workloads. Most Enterprise customers have EA’s with Microsoft which can skew their licensing strategy when considering Azure, On-premises and other Cloud Service Providers ... Read More

Feed: AWS Architecture Blog. Oracle PeopleSoft Enterprise is a widely used enterprise resource planning (ERP) application. Customers run production deployments of various PeopleSoft applications on AWS, including PeopleSoft Human Capital Management (HCM), Financials and Supply Chain Management (FSCM), Interactive Hub (IAH), and Customer Relationship Management (CRM).We published a whitepaper on Best Practices for Running Oracle PeopleSoft on AWS in December 2017. It provides architectural guidance and outlines best practices for high availability, security, scalability, and disaster recovery for running Oracle PeopleSoft applications on AWS. It also covers highly available, scalable, and cost-effective multi-region reference architectures for deploying PeopleSoft applications on ... Read More

Feed: AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog. Author: AWS Admin. We just announced the AWS Cloud Management Tools Competency Program for AWS Partner Network (APN) Partners.Launch Partners in this program have built solutions on Amazon Web Services (AWS) that enable customers’ cloud strategies by delivering operations and governance best practices. AWS CMT Competency Partners help customers confidently manage and optimize AWS environments using a “guardrails” approach while continuously monitoring for opportunities to improve efficiency. The AWS Competency Program helps customers identify and choose the world’s top APN Partner for their AWS projects and workloads. To give you an idea how AWS CMT Competency Partners are helping customers realize ... Read More

Feed: AWS Big Data Blog. RStudio Server provides a browser-based interface for R and a popular tool among data scientists. Data scientist use Apache Spark cluster running on  Amazon EMR to perform distributed training. In a previous blog post, the author showed how you can install RStudio Server on Amazon EMR cluster. However, in certain scenarios you might want to install it on a standalone Amazon EC2 instance and connect to a remote Amazon EMR cluster. Benefits of running RStudio on EC2 include the following:Running RStudio Server on an EC2 instance, you can keep your scientific models and model artifacts ... Read More