Category: Cloud Offerings

Feed: Planet MySQL; Author: MySQL Performance Blog; This is a three-part blog series. Be on the lookout for parts two and three in the coming days.There was no reason to plan for it, but the load on your system increased 100%, 300%, 500%, and your MySQL database has to support it. This is a reality many online systems have to deal with these days. This series focuses on dealing with the unexpected high traffic event as it is happening.There are also a lot of things you can do proactively, which we covered in “Prepare Your Databases for High Traffic on ... Read More

Feed: Big Data Made Simple. Author: Saša Vujnović. Accessing the web via VPN is as popular as ever.  This trend gives users access to geo-blocked websites and more content at reduced rates. Apart from this, users can access services without the worry that their sessions will be tracked.  However, like every other service, VPNs have their downsides, and it’s important to do your research before deciding which one to subscribe to. In this guide, we’ll take a look at the many pros and cons of VPNs, and we’ll give some tips on how to pick the best VPN for your ... Read More

Feed: Cloudwards. Author: Jacob Roach; Shadow is one of the largest names in cloud gaming, and for good reason. Outfitted with a full Windows 10 desktop and support for every game that runs on Microsoft’s OS, it’s the closest thing we’ve found to local gaming in the cloud.  Microsoft’s yet-to-be-released cloud gaming service, Project xCloud, is competent in its own right, though it struggles when it comes to game support and performance. In this Shadow vs Project xCloud matchup, we’re going to compare the two in features, pricing, ease of use, coverage, game support, platform support and performance to see ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. That’s why today we’re excited to announce the release of an update that greatly enhances the flexibility in how you can adopt and use GameLift. Available now in preview, the updated GameLift FleetIQ feature allows you to onboard server workloads to the cloud at your own pace, partially or completely, using your own tools independent of adopting any other managed GameLift features. After hearing from you about how to make GameLift an even better alternative to on-premises deployments, we delivered this update so you can experience: Cost savings with minimal latency. You can still experience up to ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. Amazon WorkSpaces now allows customers to bring their own licenses (BYOL) to WorkSpaces in the AWS China (Ningxia) region, operated by NWCD. With BYOL, you can now add your own Windows 10 licenses to WorkSpaces and use the Windows Desktop operating system on your Amazon WorkSpaces running on hardware that is dedicated to you. This option entitles you to a discount per month per WorkSpace, and also allows you to use a single Windows 10 Desktop golden image on-premises and for your Amazon WorkSpaces.   ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. Starting today, AWS Marketplace and AWS Data Exchange customers around the world can directly procure software and data products from providers in Australia and New Zealand, making it easier than ever to reach data-driven decisions and build operations in the cloud. In addition, AWS Marketplace customers can now purchase software through regional and local consulting partners in Australia and New Zealand, who offer knowledge of their business, localized support, and trusted expertise, through Consulting Partner Private Offers (CPPO).   Software from Australia- and New Zealand-based ISVs such as Cloudwave, Farrago AI, Raygun, Aportio, Operata, Dubber, and Javln, ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. Amazon CodeGuru Profiler is a profiling service used to improve performance and execution cost of your application. It helps you find methods that hurt application performance and gives you specific recommendations to fix or improve them to reduce CPU utilization, and improve latency and throughput.  To learn more about Amazon CodeGuru, please see the features page, for more details on how to get started visit the documentation. To contact the team visit the Amazon CodeGuru developer forum.   For more information about automating code reviews and application profiling with Amazon CodeGuru check out the AWS ML Blog ... Read More

Feed: AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog. Author: AWS Admin. Amazon Web Services (AWS) has resources and tools to make remote work and e-learning as easy as possible customers during this unprecedented time.AWS solutions include remote desktops and applications, tools for communication and collaboration, and contact center solutions. Employees, contact center agents, and students can work remotely and learn more easily with Amazon Connect, Amazon WorkSpaces, and Amazon AppStream 2.0, among others. For customers, AWS contact center solutions and remote desktop and application services can be deployed quickly and scale globally with the help of AWS Partner Network (APN) Partners. In ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. Search functionality is now more visible, so that you can easily locate the specific frames and methods you are interested in. Results are also better organized making it easier for you to inspect the method you are looking for. The legend that describes the state of each method is also more prominent so you can easily review the status of specific threads.  Amazon CodeGuru Profiler is a service for application performance recommendations. It helps you find methods that hurt application performance and gives you specific recommendations to fix or improve them to reduce CPU utilization, cut compute ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. A few key features included in 2.4.1 are: KIP-392, Allow Consumers to Fetch from Closest Replica, this allows consumers to fetch data from the nearest replica partition rather than from the leader partition, which reduces latency and potential cross Availability Zone data transfer.  KIP-480, Sticky Partitioner, this provides performance improvements to the default Apache Kafka partitioner with up to 50% reduction in latency.  KIP-455, Create an Administrative API for Replica Reassignment Apache, this provides a new Apache Kafka Admin API for partition reassignment and addresses limitations of the Apache ZooKeeper implementation. Amazon MSK is a fully managed ... Read More