Tag: EC2

Feed: Recent Announcements. Based on the next generation AWS Nitro System, M5n, M5dn, R5n, and R5dn instances make 100 Gbps networking available to network-bound workloads without requiring customers to use custom drivers or recompile applications. Customers can also take advantage of this improved network performance to accelerate data transfer to and from Amazon S3, reducing the data ingestion time for applications and speeding up delivery of results. M5n, M5dn, R5n, R5dn instances are powered by custom second-generation Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors (Cascade Lake) with sustained all-core turbo frequency of 3.1 GHz. They also provide support for the new Intel Vector ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. A security group acts as a virtual firewall for your instance to control inbound and outbound traffic. As customers scale up their number of instances and accounts, security administrators find it difficult to maintain a central view of their security posture across their entire organization. With AWS Firewall Manager support for security groups, administrators now have the ability to centrally create common security groups across the organization and enforce them consistently even as new accounts and resources are created. Administrators can also create audit policies to define what security group rules can or cannot be created across ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. CIS Benchmarks are host hardening guidelines designed to safeguard your Amazon EC2 instance by improving your security posture. The findings generated by an Inspector assessment with the CIS Benchmark rules package detail the guidance and steps needed to reduce vulnerabilities, like insecure configurations and weak password policies. With the recently released one-step setup process for Inspector, you can get started even faster than before and easily run a single security assessment with both CIS and Common Vulnerability and Exposures (CVE) rules packages. For one price, you receive the information you need to both harden and patch your ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. A1 bare metal instances provide your applications with direct access to the processor and memory resources of the underlying server. These instances are ideal for workloads that need to run in non-virtualized environments for licensing or support requirements.   All AWS services and features, such as Amazon Machine Images (AMI), Elastic Block Store (EBS) and Auto Scaling, that are supported on other A1 instances are also available on A1 bare metal instances.  A1 instances deliver up to 45% cost savings and are well suited for scale-out applications such as web servers, containerized microservices, caching fleets and distributed ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. Previously, updating your Snowball Edge’s software required that the device be connected to the internet or be sent back to AWS. Now, you can keep your Snowball Edge software up to date even if your device(s) cannot connect to the internet, or are required to run in an air-gapped environment. To complete offline updates, download the software update from a client machine with connection to the internet using the AWS Command Line Interface (CLI). Then, have the Snowball Edge device download and install the software update using the Snowball Edge device API. For more information about offline ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. EC2 High Memory instances now offer 6, 9, 12, 18, and 24 TB of memory in an instance. These instances are purpose-built to run large in-memory databases in the cloud, including production deployments of SAP HANA in-memory databases. EC2 High Memory instances allow you to run large in-memory databases and business applications that rely on these databases in the same, shared Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), ensuring predictable performance and reducing the management overhead associated with complex networking.  All EC2 High Memory instances are EBS-Optimized by default, offering dedicated storage bandwidth to encrypted and unencrypted EBS volumes ... Read More

Feed: AWS Compute Blog. Author: Neelay Thaker. This post is contributed by Jeff Underhill | EC2 Principal Business Development ManagerAmazon Corretto is a no-cost, multiplatform, production-ready distribution of the Open Java Development Kit (OpenJDK). Production-ready Linux builds of JDK8 and JDK 11 for the 64-bit Arm architecture were released Sep 17, 2019. Scale-out Java applications can get significant cost savings using the Arm-based Amazon EC2 A1 instances. Read on to learn more about Amazon EC2 A1 instances, Amazon Corretto, and how support for 64-bit Arm in Amazon Corretto is a significant development for Java developers building cloud native applications. What ... Read More

Feed: AWS Government, Education, & Nonprofits Blog. Author: AWS Public Sector Blog Team. Oxford University Press (OUP) is a department of the University of Oxford and the largest university press in the world. In 2015, OUP launched the Oxford Global Languages (OGL) initiative aiming to build lexical resources for 100 of the world’s languages and make them freely available online. A special focus is reserved to digitally under-represented languages (languages spoken by millions of native speakers, but whose lexical resources on the Internet may be of poor quality or unavailable). To date, OUP has launched 20 language websites, which include ... Read More

Feed: The Internet of Things on AWS – Official Blog. Author: Dr. Markus Bestehorn. Gaining access to sensor data or telemetry of industrial machines is a key requirement for implementing high-value use cases around smart manufacturing or Industry 4.0. For instance, predictive maintenance or automated quality control is not possible without having such data at a high temporal resolution.Given the heterogeneous environment of modern industrial production lines with many different machine types, it’s difficult to access machine data because the machines’ interfaces may use different protocols. This post provides a detailed look at the conversion of industrial protocols and extracting ... Read More

Feed: AWS Architecture Blog. Amazon Web Services (AWS) serves more than a million private and public sector organizations all over the world from its extensive and expanding global infrastructure.Like other countries, organizations all around New Zealand are using AWS to change the way they operate. For example, Xero, a Wellington-based online accountancy software vendor, now serves customers in more than 100 countries, while the Department of Conservation provides its end users with virtual desktops running in Amazon Workspaces. New Zealand doesn’t currently have a dedicated AWS Region. Geographically, the closest is Asia Pacific (Sydney), which is 2,000 kilometers (km) away, ... Read More