Tag: instance

Feed: Recent Announcements. AWS Elastic Beanstalk now supports dynamic instance type selection for Elastic Beanstalk’s environments. This means Elastic Beanstalk will automatically fetch all compatible instance types for you to run a variety of applications. With dynamic instance type, you can choose the best suited instance type to optimize your application’s performance. For example, if you have machine learning applications, you can optimize performance by selecting an accelerated computing instance type such as p3, or p4d ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. Amazon Web Services (AWS) announces the general availability of Amazon EC2 VT1 instances powered by Xilinx® Alveo™ U30 media accelerators for video transcoding. VT1 instances are AWS’s first EC2 instances that feature hardware acceleration for video transcoding and are optimized for workloads such as live broadcast, video conferencing, and just-in-time transcoding. These instances deliver up to 30% lower cost per stream than Amazon EC2 G4dn GPU-based instances and up to 60% lower cost per stream than Amazon EC2 C5 CPU-based instances. EC2 VT1 instances feature up to 8 Xilinx® Alveo™ U30 media accelerators, 192 GB of system ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. Amazon EC2 now offers increased instance bandwidth from AWS region to traffic destined towards Internet Gateway, Direct Connect and between regions for the current generation of instances. Prior to this announcement, EC2 instance network bandwidth for traffic from AWS region destined to Internet Gateway, Direct Connect and other AWS regions was up to 5 Gbps for all instances. With this launch, current generation EC2 instances that have 32 vCPUs or higher can now drive higher bandwidth of up to 50% of instance network bandwidth to these destinations. For e.g. c5n.9xlarge has an instance network bandwidth of 50 ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. The Amazon EC2 Instance Metadata Service, Amazon Time Sync Service, and Amazon VPC DNS server can now be accessed over IPv6 endpoints by instances built on the Nitro System. These local instance services have IPv6 addresses that can be accessed from your Amazon EC2 instances. These IPv6 endpoints use Unique Local Addresses (ULA); IPv6 for local instance services is useful for running software and containers in an IPv6-only single stack configuration. Additionally, if you are starting your transition to IPv6 in a dual-stack environment, the endpoints for the Instance Metadata Service, Amazon Time Sync Service, and Amazon ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. Today, we are excited to announce that Amazon SageMaker notebook instance supports Amazon Linux 2. You can now choose Amazon Linux 2 for your new Amazon SageMaker notebook instance to take advantage of the latest update and support provided by Amazon Linux 2. Amazon SageMaker notebook instances are fully managed Jupyter Notebooks with pre-configured development environments for data science and machine learning. Data scientists and developers can spin up SageMaker Notebooks to interactively explore, visualize and prepare data, and build and deploy models on SageMaker. This launch rolls out AL2 AMI option for users on SageMaker notebook ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. Starting today, AWS customers can use ED25519 keys to prove their identity when connecting to EC2 instances. ED25519 is an elliptic curve based public-key system commonly used for SSH authentication. Previously, EC2 customers could only use RSA based keys to authenticate to EC2 instances, when they needed to establish secure connections to deploy and manage instances on EC2. EC2 customers can now also use ED25519 key pairs in addition to RSA based key pairs. This will help customers choose the type of key pair they want to, as well as standardize on a single type of key ... Read More

Feed: AWS for SAP. Author: Pradeep Puliyampatta. Introduction SAP systems that are critical to business continuity require a well designed and tested High Availability and Disaster Recovery (HA/DR) framework to maximise application availability during planned and unplanned outages. SAP HANA is an in-memory database that supports mission critical workloads and is a key component of an SAP system that needs to be safeguarded from failures. A primary or active HANA database can be replicated to a secondary instance using SAP HANA System Replication (HSR). SAP HSR continuously replicates data to ensure that in the event of a failure on the ... Read More

Feed: AWS Architecture Blog. This blog post was co-written by Sudhir Amin, Sr. Solution Architect, AWS, and David Bermingham, Senior Technical Evangelist, SIOS Technology, Inc. To ensure high availability (HA) of Microsoft SQL Server in Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), there are two options: Always On Failover Cluster Instance (FCI) and Always On availability groups. With a wide range of networking solutions such as VPN and AWS Direct Connect, you have options to further extend your HA architecture to another AWS Region to also meet your disaster recovery (DR) objectives. You can also run asynchronous replication between Regions, or ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling Instance Refresh now supports performing updates to the Auto Scaling group (ASG) configuration as well as the ability to skip replacing already updated instances during an Instance Refresh. These new capabilities make it easier to deploy changes to an Amazon Machine Image (AMI) or install additional software in a controlled manner. To help you further deploy updates on Auto Scaling instances, we are also announcing four new Instance Refresh-based event notifications available through Amazon EventBridge. Instance Refresh now enables customers to avoid replacing instances if those instances already have the desired configuration. Using ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. AWS Cloud9 introduces 3 new features, including support for CloudWatch Logs, S3 and EC2 instance profiles. Cloud9 users can now list their log groups and view log streams instantly without leaving their IDE. In addition, the S3 integration has improved performance in VPCs and now supports a new “Upload current file” feature. Finally, Cloud9 users using multi-factor authentication (MFA) and private VPCs can automatically authenticate via EC2 instance metadata and environment variable credentials sources. AWS Cloud9 is a cloud-based integrated development environment (IDE) that lets you write, run, and debug your code with just a browser. It includes ... Read More