Tag: S3

Feed: What's New. AWS Snowball is a data transport solution that accelerates moving terabytes to petabytes of data into and out of AWS using storage appliances designed to be secure for physical transport. Using Snowball helps to eliminate challenges that can be encountered with large-scale data transfers including high network costs, long transfer times, and security concerns. Beyond large-scale data transfers, AWS Snowball also supports importing data from a Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS).  AWS Snowball Edge is a 100TB data transfer device with on-board storage and compute power for select AWS capabilities. In addition to transferring data to AWS, ... Read More

Feed: What's New. The included AWS Mobile Hub configuration includes a functioning Serverless backend that allows users to sign-up and sign-in using Amazon Cognito User Pools and Federated Identities including MFA support. Users can store content in Amazon S3 which is secured on a per-user basis and the starter application demonstrates how to track these in an Amazon DynamoDB table that is accessed via Amazon API Gateway and AWS Lambda. The starter can be fully customized and React Native Higher Order Components (HOCs) are provided for developers to use in their own applications. The React Native starter kit is released ... Read More

Feed: AWS Government, Education, & Nonprofits Blog. Author: publicsector. The deadline to implement National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Special Publication 800-171 is fast approaching. Beginning in January 2018, you may miss out on government funding that stipulates its implementation if you have not taken action.In 2015, NIST published Special Publication (SP) 800-171 – Protecting Controlled Unclassified Information in Non-federal Information Systems and Organizations – introducing the standards for non-federal entities, such as academic institutions working under a government contract. NIST 800-171 was meant to take the security controls from a larger NIST publication, NIST 800-53, and assist non-federal ... Read More

Feed: AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog. Author: Ian Scofield. By Ian Scofield, Juan Villa, and Mike Ruiz GameDay is an immersive, team-based event we’ve hosted at AWS Summits and re:Invent over the past few years. The event has teams of players settling into a challenging—and hopefully entertaining—scenario as DevOps leads at Unicorn.Rentals, a popular startup minutes away from the very public launch of a widely anticipated product. For more information, see the GameDay website. Of course, we have a lot going on behind the scenes to make GameDay work. Beyond all the enthusiastic acting and silly props, you’ll find a ... Read More

Feed: The Internet of Things on AWS – Official Blog. Author: Olawale Oladehin. Post by Marcos Ortiz, an AWS Solutions ArchitectThe AWS IoT platform allows you to use substitution templates to augment the JSON data returned when a rule is triggered and AWS IoT performs a rule action. The syntax for a substitution template is ${expression}, where expression can be any expression supported by AWS IoT in SELECT or WHERE clauses. For more information about supported expressions, see AWS IoT SQL Reference. The substitution template is an important feature for AWS IoT customers, especially when there’s a need  to dynamically add some contextual information that is ... Read More

Feed: What's New. The Quick Start provides the option to deploy a Docker container, which represents your on-premises Hadoop cluster for demonstration purposes, and helps you gain hands-on experience with the hybrid data lake architecture. WANdisco Fusion replicates data from Docker to Amazon S3 continuously, ensuring strong consistency between data residing on premises and data in the cloud. You can use Amazon Athena to analyze and view the data that has been replicated.  You can also customize the Quick Start to enable a disaster recovery scenario for your on-premises Hadooop cluster, by provisioning an Amazon EMR cluster that references the ... Read More

Feed: AWS Compute Blog. Author: Arun Gupta. There are multiple ways to run a Kubernetes cluster on Amazon Web Services (AWS). The first post in this series explained how to manage a Kubernetes cluster on AWS using kops. This second post explains how to manage a Kubernetes cluster on AWS using CoreOS Tectonic.Tectonic overview Tectonic delivers the most current upstream version of Kubernetes with additional features. It is a commercial offering from CoreOS and adds the following features over the upstream: InstallerComes with a graphical installer that installs a highly available Kubernetes cluster. Alternatively, the cluster can be installed using AWS CloudFormation ... Read More

Feed: AWS Government, Education, & Nonprofits Blog. Author: publicsector. Many local administrations deal with air pollution through the collection and analysis of air quality data. With AWS, cities can now create a serverless analytics solution using AWS Glue and AWS QuickSight for processing and analyzing a high volume of sensor data. This allows you to start quickly without worrying about servers, virtual machines, or instances, so you can focus on your core business logic to help your organization meet its analytics objectives.You can pick up data from on-premises databases or Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) buckets, transform it, and ... Read More

Feed: What's New. Lifecycle hooks allow you to control what happens when your Amazon EC2 instances are launched and terminated as you scale out and in. For example, you might download and install software when an instance is launching, and archive instance log files in Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) when an instance is terminating. There is no charge for using Auto Scaling; you pay only for the underlying instances provisioned. To learn more about lifecycle hooks, visit the Auto Scaling documentation ... Read More

Feed: What's New. StorReduce is a specialized cloud deduplication solution for companies that use object storage like Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) for large volumes of data. StorReduce sits between your applications and the object store, transparently performing inline data deduplication at ratios equaling those of industry-best purpose-built appliances while exposing the Amazon S3 API. Storage and bandwidth requirements are reduced by as much as 30 times, and data transfer times and backup windows can be reduced by the same amount.  The AWS Cloud provides a suite of infrastructure services that enable you to deploy StorReduce in a highly ... Read More