Category: Cloud Offerings

Feed: Planet PostgreSQL. I'm very pleased to announce the very first preview version of Database Lab Engine (DLE) for AWS Marketplace. If you're using AWS, this is the fastest way to have powerful database branching for any database, including RDS and RDS Aurora. But not only RDS: any Postgres and Postgres-compatible database is supported as a source for DLE.Now, for a fixed price (paying just for one EC2 instance and an EBS volume), you can have dozens of DB clones being provisioned in seconds and delivering independent databases for your Git branches, CI/CD pipelines, as well as manual optimization and ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. AWS Launch Wizard now allows you to deploy SAP HANA in a scale-out architecture using Amazon EC2 x2idn and r6i instances. Customers can deploy up to 16 nodes (1 primary node and 15 secondary nodes) using these instance types ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. AWS Outposts rack can now be shipped and installed at your data center and on-premises locations in Panama. AWS Outposts rack, a part of the AWS Outposts family, is a fully managed service that extends AWS infrastructure, AWS services, APIs, and tools to virtually any data center or co-location space for a truly consistent hybrid experience. Outposts rack is ideal for workloads that require low latency access to on-premises systems, local data processing, data residency, and migration of applications with local system interdependencies. With the availability of Outposts rack in Panama, you can use AWS services to ... Read More

Feed: AWS Big Data Blog. Amazon Redshift is a fast, scalable, secure, and fully-managed cloud data warehouse that makes it simple and cost-effective to analyze all of your data using standard SQL. Amazon Redshift has comprehensive security capabilities to satisfy the most demanding requirements. To help you to monitor the database for security and troubleshooting purposes, Amazon Redshift logs information about connections and user activities in your database. This process is called database auditing. Amazon Redshift Audit Logging is good for troubleshooting, monitoring, and security purposes, making it possible to determine suspicious queries by checking the connections and user logs ... Read More

Feed: AWS Compute Blog. Author: Sheila Busser. This post is written by Benjamin Meyer, Sr. Solutions Architect, and Pascal Vogel, Associate Solutions Architect. Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) Dedicated Hosts enable you to run software on dedicated physical servers. This lets you comply with corporate compliance requirements or per-socket, per-core, or per-VM licensing agreements by vendors, such as Microsoft, Oracle, and Red Hat. Dedicated Hosts are also required to run Amazon EC2 Mac Instances. The lifecycles and states of Amazon EC2 Dedicated Hosts and Amazon EC2 instances are closely connected and dependent on each other. To operate Dedicated Hosts ... Read More

Feed: AWS Big Data Blog. Amazon QuickSight is a fully-managed, cloud-native business intelligence (BI) service that makes it easy to connect to your data, create interactive dashboards, and share these with tens of thousands of users, either within the QuickSight interface or embedded in software as a service (SaaS) applications or web portals. With QuickSight providing insights to power your daily decisions, it becomes more important than even for administrators and developers to ensure their QuickSight dashboards and data refreshes are operating smoothly as expected. We recently announced the availability of QuickSight metrics within Amazon CloudWatch, which enables developers and ... Read More

Feed: AWS Public Sector Blog. Author: Rachel Van Dinter. Forrester estimates that data-driven businesses are growing at an average of more than 30 percent annually. This is also happening at education technology companies. With new data sources have emerging, including real-time streaming data from virtual classrooms, mobile engagement, unique usage, and new learners, these data sources are shaping the next generation of EdTech products that engage learners meaningfully around the world. Often however the challenge is not the lack of data, but how to harness the data to get the desired output and utilize the data in meaningful ways such ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. Amazon WorkMail now supports invoking AWS Lambda for user availability, through Custom Availability Provider Lambdas (CAP Lambdas). CAP Lambdas are a new way for WorkMail to get availability information from external availability sources. A customer can use these CAP Lambdas to give WorkMail access to availability information for users on other calendaring providers they own, even if their endpoints are private, or if they do not have an Exchange Web Services (EWS) endpoint. Users can schedule meetings and see other users’ availability through clients like Outlook. When a customer uses WorkMail alongside other calendaring solutions, WorkMail users ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. Today, AWS announced the ability to toggle routes on and off when using AWS Migration Hub Refactor Spaces. This feature lets customers create inactive routes which can be activated after creation once the route’s targeted service is ready to receive traffic. Customers can use route toggling to fine-tune their routing approach and deliver just-in-time route changes as applications are incrementally refactored. AWS Migration Hub Refactor Spaces is the starting point for incremental application refactoring to microservices in AWS. Refactor Spaces automates the creation of application refactor environments including all of the infrastructure, multi-account networking, and routing to ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS) now supports IBM Db2 z/OS as a source for the full load operational mode. Using AWS Schema Conversion Tool (SCT), you can convert schemas and code objects from IBM DB2 z/OS to Aurora MySQL, Aurora PostgreSQL, MySQL and PostgreSQL targets. Once you have the schema and objects in a format compatible with target database you can utilize AWS DMS to migrate data from IBM DB2 running on the z/OS operating system to any AWS DMS supported targets ... Read More