Tag: EC2

Feed: Recent Announcements. The new rules verify security and operational best practices for services such as Amazon CloudWatch, AWS CloudTrail, Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon Relational Database Service, Amazon EC2, AWS Identity and Access Management, Amazon Redshift, AWS Web Application Firewall and Elastic Load Balancing. For a full list of newly launched rules and supported Regions, click here. To learn more about AWS Config, visit the AWS Config webpage and technical documentation.   ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. Explorer is an operations dashboard providing you with an at-a-glance graphical view of relevant operations data, such as EC2 instance summaries and their patch compliance. With Explorer, you can view your operations data to see where attention, investigation, and remediation may be required. Using Explorer, you can gain insight into your operations issues and sort them by category to focus on issues relevant to you. You can see how these issues trend over time, helping you determine where action is required. Explorer also gives a summary of your EC2 instances and their patch compliance to help you ... Read More

Feed: AWS Compute Blog. Author: James Beswick. This post is courtesy of Jakub Narloch, Senior Software Development Engineer.Today, AWS announced the support for Amazon API Gateway as an event target in Amazon EventBridge. This feature enables new integration scenarios for web applications and services. It allows customers to seamlessly connect their infrastructure, SaaS services, and APIs hosted in AWS. With API Gateway as a target for EventBridge, this creates new integration capabilities for new or existing web applications. This post explains how developers can now deliver events directly to their applications hosted on Amazon ECS, Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS), ... Read More

Feed: AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog. Author: Derek Belt. The AWS Partner Network (APN) is the global partner program for Amazon Web Services (AWS).We enable APN Partners to build, market, and sell their AWS offerings, and we help customers identify top APN Partners that can deliver on core business objectives. There are tens of thousands of APN Partners across the globe. More than 90 percent of Fortune 100 companies and the majority of Fortune 500 companies utilize APN Partner solutions and services. To receive APN program designations such as AWS Competency, AWS Service Delivery, AWS Service Ready, and AWS Managed Services Provider ... Read More

Feed: The Internet of Things on AWS – Official Blog. Author: Amanda Lowe. Manufacturing industries only realize 20 to 30 percent of the value of their data. By consistently leveraging the value of their data, manufacturing companies could reduce product development costs by up to 50 percent and operating costs by up to 25 percent, while increasing their gross margins by one third[1]. Industrial IoT (IIoT) is a data lever – it brings machines, field assets at the edge, cloud computing, analytics, and people together to improve the performance and productivity of industrial processes. With IIoT, industrial companies can digitize ... Read More

Feed: AWS Compute Blog. Author: Chris Munns. This post is contributed by Andrew Pearce – Sr. Systems Dev Engineer, AWSSince launching Amazon EC2 Image Builder, many customers say they want to re-use existing investments in configuration management technologies (such as Ansible, Chef, or Puppet) with Image Builder pipelines. In this blog, I walk through creating a document that can execute an Ansible playbook in an Image Builder pipeline. I then use the document to create an Image Builder component that can be added to an Image Builder image recipe. In addition to this blog, you can find further samples in the amazon-ec2-image-builder-samples ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. Amazon EC2 Spot Instances let you take advantage of unused Amazon EC2 capacity. Spot Instances are available at up to a 90% discount compared to On-Demand prices. You can use Spot Instances for various stateless, fault-tolerant, or flexible applications such as big data, containerized workloads, CI/CD, web servers, high-performance computing (HPC), and other test & development workloads. Starting today, you can assign AWS resource tags to Spot Instance requests on creation, in addition to the tags for each individual, launched Spot Instance.. Use tags in your Spot Instance requests to more easily identify their purpose. For example, ... Read More

Feed: AWS Public Sector Blog. Author: Tara Madhyastha, Ph.D.. Research is done differently in the cloud than in an on-premises lab. Research labs looking to move computational research to the cloud should start with their workflows. Workflows are well-developed sets of computer analyses that turn raw data into results that researchers can publish. Even though analysis methods can overlap, workflows vary by lab and project to suit the research question. Researchers can benefit from the advantages of moving research workflows to Amazon Web Services (AWS). Moving to AWS is a good time to consider changes to workflows to increase reproducibility, ... Read More

Feed: AWS Big Data Blog. AWS is happy to announce the release of Amazon EMR Managed Scaling—a new feature that automatically resizes your cluster for best performance at the lowest possible cost. With EMR Managed Scaling you specify the minimum and maximum compute limits for your clusters and Amazon EMR automatically resizes them for best performance and resource utilization. EMR Managed Scaling continuously samples key metrics associated with the workloads running on clusters. EMR Managed Scaling is supported for Apache Spark, Apache Hive and YARN-based workloads on Amazon EMR versions 5.30.1 and above.*Use cases and benefits Before EMR Managed Scaling, ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. Starting today, AWS customers can enable Spot Instances for AWS Marketplace Amazon Machine Image (AMI) products while launching new instances through the EC2 console Launch Instance Wizard (LIW). With this launch, you can reduce costs on the EC2 instances you need to run your third-party software on AWS. Spot Instances enable you to request unused EC2 instances at steep discounts- up to 90% compared to On-Demand prices- so you can lower your Amazon EC2 costs. Spot Instances are a cost-effective choice if have flexibility with running your third-party applications and if your applications are fault-tolerant. Customers—including Salesforce, ... Read More