Tag: EC2

Feed: Recent Announcements. AWS Ground Station is a fully managed service that lets you control satellite communications, process satellite data, and scale your satellite operations. A mid-latitude AWS Ground Station located in the middle of the Pacific reduces the time between contacts for Low-Earth Orbit satellites and is useful for customers whose operations require downlink in this area of the world. Global expansion to Hawaii now enables satellite owners and operators to connect with their satellites and process their space workloads more frequently. Governments, businesses, and universities can benefit from more timely satellite data to make precise, data driven decisions ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. Capacity providers help you manage compute capacity for containers by allowing the application to define its requirements for how it uses the capacity. With capacity providers, you can define flexible rules for how containerized workloads run on different types of compute capacity, and manage the scaling of the capacity. Capacity providers improve the availability, scalability, and cost of running tasks and services on Amazon ECS. Capacity providers work with both Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) and AWS Fargate. With Amazon EC2, you can create a capacity provider associated with an EC2 Auto Scaling group (ASG). The ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. AWS Batch enables developers, scientists, and engineers to easily and efficiently run hundreds of thousands of batch computing jobs on AWS. AWS Batch dynamically provisions the optimal quantity and type of compute resources (e.g. CPU or memory optimized instances) based on the volume and specific resource requirements of the batch jobs submitted. When creating an AWS Batch compute environment, customers can simply select Amazon Linux 2 in the console, or specify AmazonLinux2 as the EC2 Configuration; which is a new parameter that is also introduced as part of this launch.   Be advised that the previous version, ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. The open-source graph notebook provides users the flexibility to run their queries and visualization from local desktops, EC2, or EMR in addition to using the Neptune Workbench on SageMaker. It is easily installed via the Python Package Installer (PIP). You can connect to graph databases that provide an endpoint that implements an Apache TinkerPop Gremlin Server or the SPARQL 1.1 Protocol. The notebook also gives developers the power to enhance and contribute to the features in the notebook. To get started, visit the project on GitHub. You can also contribute to the graph notebook codebase. For more ... Read More

Feed: AWS Architecture Blog. With the trends to autonomous teams and microservice style architectures, web frontend tiers are challenged to become more flexible and integrate different components with independent architectures and technology stacks. Two scenarios are prominent: Micro-Frontends, where there is a single page application and components within this page are owned by different teams Web portals, where there is a landing page and subsections of the presence are owned by different teams. In the following we will refer to these as components as well. What these scenarios have in common is that they consist of loosely coupled components that ... Read More

Feed: AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog. Author: Chris Sullivan. By Chris Sullivan, Director, Worldwide Strategic Alliances at AWS For more than a decade, customers have run their most strategic workloads on Amazon Web Services (AWS). This is due to AWS’s experience, maturity, reliability, security, and performance. Strategic workloads running on AWS include applications like SAP, vSphere-based workloads such as VMware Horizon, SharePoint, and Citrix, and databases like Oracle, SQL Server, SAP HANA, and IBM Db2. Additionally, operating systems from Red Hat, SUSE, Canonical, and Microsoft all run on AWS to support vital business processes. As customers have migrated these critical ... Read More

Feed: AWS Public Sector Blog. Author: Brian Burton. Do you favor that points-earning credit card? Or stick with the same airline to rack up miles? These are examples of gamification in action. While the term is relatively new, gamification has been around as long as people have tried to make boring activities interesting. Humans have a natural desire to compete, be social, and gain rewards. Elearningindustry.com found that 67 percent of students feel gamified courses are more motivating than traditional ones. And with educators shifting to virtual or blended classrooms worldwide, it’s worth making the effort to create a gamified classroom. Here ... Read More

Feed: AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog. Author: Larry Bowles. By Larry Bowles, Cloud Chief at Red River A successful cloud strategy doesn’t rely on one person, or one department to execute—it takes a true team effort. In 2019, Red River Technology came to this realization, broke down internal silos, and leveraged talent across the company to better deliver for our customers. This was due in large part to our participation the AWS Partner Transformation Program (PTP). In this post, I will walk you through Red River’s company-wide experience going through the PTP. I’ll share our challenges, realizations, and outcomes of ... Read More

Feed: AWS Compute Blog. Author: James Beswick. Customers use AWS Lambda to build a wide range of applications, including mission-critical and compute-intensive applications. The most demanding workloads include machine learning inferencing, media processing, high performance computing (HPC), scientific simulations, and financial modeling. With the release of Advanced Vector Extensions 2 (AVX2) support for Lambda, builders can benefit from improved performance for these types of applications. Overview This blog post explains AVX2 and how you can take advantage of this instruction set in your Lambda functions. I walk through an example of how to enhance performance of a typical use case ... Read More

Feed: AWS Architecture Blog. Recovering your mission-critical workloads from outages is essential for business continuity and providing services to customers with little or no interruption. That’s why many customers replicate their mission-critical workloads in multiple places using a Disaster Recovery (DR) strategy suited for their needs. With AWS, a customer can achieve this by deploying multi Availability Zone High-Availability setup or a multi-region setup by replicating critical components of an application to another region.  Depending on the RPO and RTO of the mission-critical workload, the requirement for disaster recovery ranges from simple backup and restore, to multi-site, active-active, setup. In ... Read More