Category: Cloud Offerings

Feed: What's New. 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. With AWS Batch, there is no need to install and manage batch computing software or server clusters that run your jobs, allowing you to focus on analyzing results and solving problems. AWS Batch plans, schedules, and executes your batch computing workloads across the full range ... Read More

Feed: What's New. Amazon VPC endpoints are easy to configure. They also provide reliable connectivity to Amazon SQS without requiring an internet gateway, Network Address Translation (NAT) instance, VPN connection, or AWS Direct Connect connection. With VPC endpoints, the data between your Amazon VPC and Amazon SQS queue is transferred within the Amazon network, helping protect your instances from internet traffic. Amazon SQS is a fully managed message queuing service that enables you to decouple and scale microservices, distributed systems, and serverless applications. SQS eliminates the complexity and overhead associated with managing and operating message-oriented middleware, and empowers developers to ... Read More

Feed: What's New. During hyperparameter tuning, the number of possible configurations is exponential to the number of hyperparameters. The large number of variables means that it is possible that a new training job produces a less accurate model than what was previously achieved. When it becomes evident this is the case, you want to stop the training job and move on to another iteration. With this new enhancement, Amazon SageMaker will periodically compare an ongoing training job with previous training jobs to determine if it should be stopped. As long as you have not exceeded your tuning budget, a new ... Read More

Feed: AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog. Author: AWS Admin. By Michael Moussa, APN Ambassador at RackspaceThis year’s AWS re:Invent was a nonstop, high-powered firehose of exciting new features and products. Native PHP support on Lambda wasn’t one of those features, but the new AWS Lambda runtime API and layers capabilities give us the ability to build a clean, supportable implementation of PHP on Lambda of our own. In this post, we’ll take a brief look at the overall workflow and runtime lifecycle, and then I’ll show you one way to build a PHP runtime to start powering your PHP applications on AWS Lambda ... Read More

Feed: AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog. Author: AWS Admin. By Kathleen Hillenbrand, Service Delivery Program Manager at AWSThe AWS Service Delivery Program identifies and endorses AWS Partner Network (APN) Partners with validated customer experience and a deep understanding of specific AWS services, such as Amazon EC2 for Windows, AWS IoT Core, and Amazon Kinesis. Please join us in congratulating these top 14 APN Partners on achieving new AWS Service Delivery Program designations in November. Each follows AWS best practices and has proven success delivering AWS services to end customers. To receive an AWS Service Delivery designation, APN Partners must undergo service-specific ... Read More

Feed: What's New. Amazon Connect now provides a new contact API that lets you programmatically retrieve contact attributes for a given contact. Contact attributes are key-value pairs of data about a contact, such as the name of the caller, why they called, or the quality of service they received. Contact attributes can be stored using contact flow blocks or by API. For example, for a given contact, you might choose to set contact attributes to indicate why the customer was calling or how their issue was resolved. If the customer calls back, you can now use the new contact API ... Read More

Feed: What's New. By default, AWS Shield Standard protects AWS Global Accelerator resources against the most common infrastructure layer DDoS attacks. With AWS Shield Advanced, you get protection against more sophisticated and larger DDoS attacks, by enhanced detection and mitigation tuned to your architecture behind the Accelerator. With AWS Shield Advanced you also get near-real-time attack visibility, 24x7 access to the AWS DDoS Response Team (DRT) for escalations, and economic protections against DDoS-related usage spikes in your protected resources. Prices for AWS Shield Advanced for AWS Global Accelerator are similar to those for Elastic Load Balancing and AWS Elastic IP ... Read More

Feed: AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog. Author: Shashi Raina. By Shashi Raina, Partner Solution Architect at AWSBy Veda Shankar, Senior Developer Advocate at OmniSciWe generate quintillions of bytes of data every day, but on the face of it the data is not necessarily useful. To make data useful, it should be processed into information. In this post, we’ll talk about how OmniSci, an AWS Partner Network (APN) Standard Technology Partner, provides a platform to make this process of changing data into information faster, cheaper, and interactive. With the rapid growth of data comes the challenge of getting meaningful information from ... Read More

Feed: AWS Compute Blog. Author: Chris Munns. Serverless application architectures enable you to break large projects into smaller, more manageable services that are highly reusable and independently scalable, secured, and evolved over time. As serverless architectures grow, we have seen common patterns that get reimplemented across companies, teams, and projects, hurting development velocity and leading to wasted effort. We have made it easier to develop new serverless architectures that meet organizational best practices by supporting nested applications in AWS SAM and the AWS Serverless Application Repository.How it works Nested applications build off a concept in AWS CloudFormation called nested stacks ... Read More

Feed: What's New. Starting today, Amazon EC2 C5d, M5d, and R5d Instances are available in the Europe (Paris) AWS Region and Amazon EC2 R5d Instances are available in the AWS GovCloud (US-West) Region. Amazon EC2 C5d, M5d, and R5d all have local NVMe-based SSD block level storage physically connected to the host server. These instances are a great fit for applications that need access to high-speed, low latency local storage, to temporary storage of data such as batch and log processing, and to high-speed caches and scratch files. C5d instances are ideal for applications such as high performance web servers, ... Read More