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Easily model your app data in a NoSQL database with AWS Mobile Hub
Posted On: Jul 1, 2016You can now use AWS Mobile Hub to model and store app data in a NoSQL database using the Wizard flow. This feature is powered by Amazon DynamoDB which provides a fully managed and fast (single-digit millisecond latency) service at any scale.
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Amazon EC2 Run Command now supports Hybrid and Cross-Cloud Management
Posted On: Jul 1, 2016Amazon EC2 Run Command now works with any instance or virtual machine outside of AWS, including VMs running in your own data centers or in other clouds. If you have hybrid environments that span on-premises to AWS, you now have a consistent experience to extend your scripts across locations. Through a single interface, you can now run scripts for repetitive tasks for both Windows and Linux operating systems running within Amazon EC2, VMware ESXi, Microsoft Hyper-V, and many other platforms. With Amazon EC2 Run Command, you can automate administrative tasks such as executing Linux Shell scripts and commands, running Windows PowerShell commands, installing software or patches, and more across instances, irrespective of location.
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Restore an encrypted Amazon Aurora database from an unencrypted backup
Posted On: Jun 30, 2016You can now restore an encrypted Amazon Aurora cluster from an unencrypted backup. You can choose any existing KMS key or create a new key to encrypt the new database. For more information on creating encrypted Amazon Aurora databases, read the Amazon Aurora User Guide. To know more about Amazon Aurora, visit our product page.
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Learn AWS Security Fundamentals with Free and Online Training
Posted On: Jun 30, 2016AWS Security Fundamentals is a free, online course that introduces you to fundamental cloud computing and AWS security concepts, including AWS access control and management, governance, logging, and encryption methods. It also addresses security-related compliance protocols, risk management strategies, and procedures for auditing AWS security infrastructure. We have significantly updated this course to include new content, demos, and knowledge checks that help you learn about AWS security concepts and services. This self-paced course is aimed at IT business or security professionals interested in cloud security practices and AWS, as well as IT auditors, analysts, and regulators. You can learn about this course and others training resources at AWS Training.
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Amazon Lumberyard Beta 1.3 now available, adds VR, HDR, and more
Posted On: Jun 29, 2016We are excited to announce the release of Amazon Lumberyard Beta 1.3, which includes 130 new improvements, fixes, and features. Lumberyard Beta 1.3 introduces new graphics features to help your team build visually stunning games including: support for VR devices such as the Oculus Rift and HTC Vive, support for high-dynamic range (HDR) displays and their brighter pixels and wider color gamut, introduction of the Lumberyard Graphics Profiler that displays critical performance statistics in real time, and more. Read about the update in the GameDev Blog and the Lumberyard Beta 1.3 release notes.
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New AWS Accounts Default to Long EBS and Storage Gateway Resource IDs
Posted On: Jun 29, 2016In April, Amazon Web Services announced the availability of longer volume and snapshot IDs for EBS and Storage Gateway. Starting today, June 29, 2016, all newly created AWS accounts will use longer volume and snapshot IDs by default in all regions except China (Beijing) and AWS GovCloud (US). If you have not yet tested your systems for compatibility with longer volume and snapshot IDs, you still have the option to request the shorter ID format if necessary. For new AWS regions launching later in 2016, all accounts will default to longer EC2 and EBS IDs, with the option to opt out if needed.
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Announcing Amazon VPC Flow Logs Support in the Asia Pacific (Seoul) Region
Posted On: Jun 29, 2016Amazon VPC Flow Logs is now available in the Asia Pacific (Seoul) region. VPC Flow Logs is a feature that enables you to capture information about the IP traffic going to and from your VPC. Once enabled for a particular VPC, Subnet or Elastic Network Interface (ENI), relevant network traffic will be logged to CloudWatch Logs for storage and analysis by your own applications or third-party tools. Additionally, metrics can be created to identify trends and patterns.
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Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) is Now Generally Available
Posted On: Jun 29, 2016Amazon EFS provides simple, scalable file storage for use with Amazon EC2 instances in the AWS Cloud. Amazon EFS is easy to use and offers a simple interface that allows you to create and configure file systems quickly and easily. With Amazon EFS, storage capacity is elastic, growing and shrinking automatically as you add and remove files, so your applications have the storage they need, when they need it.
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Amazon SNS adds Worldwide SMS
Posted On: Jun 28, 2016You can now use Amazon SNS to send SMS messages to phone numbers in 200+ countries. With the addition of the Worldwide SMS Delivery feature, Amazon SNS now offers a low cost, fully managed and highly scalable service that lets you deliver both transactional messages such as one-time passwords (OTP) and promotional messages such as marketing campaigns to your users across multiple destinations globally, over multiple channels such as text-messaging (SMS) mobile push, and email.
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Red Hat OpenShift on the AWS Cloud: Quick Start Reference Deployment
Posted On: Jun 28, 2016Update: September 2017
This Quick Start was revised for Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform. For the new version, see these resources:
- Announcement
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Introducing Elastic Network Adapter (ENA), the next generation network interface for EC2 instances
Posted On: Jun 28, 2016Amazon EC2 has announced Elastic Network Adapter (ENA), the next generation network interface and accompanying drivers that provide Enhanced Networking on EC2 instances.
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Announcing the AWS Asia Pacific (Mumbai) Region
Posted On: Jun 27, 2016AWS is pleased to announce immediate availability of the new Asia Pacific (Mumbai) Region. Mumbai joins Beijing, Seoul, Singapore, Sydney, and Tokyo as the sixth AWS Region in Asia and as the thirteenth worldwide, bringing the total number of AWS Availability Zones to 35 worldwide.
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Amazon WorkSpaces now comes with larger root volumes
Posted On: Jun 24, 2016Starting today, we are expanding Amazon WorkSpaces root volumes from 60GB to 80GB for all Amazon WorkSpaces bundles, at no additional cost to you. Larger volumes allow your users to install and run more applications and store more data, which means they can use their Amazon WorkSpace in more ways than before.
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New AWS Public Data Set - Amazon Bin Image Data Set
Posted On: Jun 24, 2016Today, the Amazon Fulfillment Technologies team is releasing the Amazon Bin Image Data Set, which is made up of over 1,000 images of bins inside an Amazon Fulfillment Center. Each image is accompanied by metadata describing the contents of the bin in the image. This is a limited release, and several hundred thousand images will be released this fall. Learn more about the data set on its Public Data Set landing page.
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Introducing Amazon VPC NAT Gateway in Asia Pacific (Seoul) Region
Posted On: Jun 23, 2016You can now use Network Address Translation (NAT) Gateway in the Asia Pacific (Seoul) region. NAT Gateway is a highly available AWS managed service that makes it easy to connect to the Internet from instances within a private subnet in an AWS Virtual Private Cloud (VPC). Previously, you needed to launch a NAT instance to enable NAT for instances in a private subnet.
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Now use Object Tags in the Amazon Machine Learning Console
Posted On: Jun 23, 2016You now have the ability to add, modify, remove, and list tags on an object through the Amazon Machine Learning (Amazon ML) console. Additionally, when objects are created through the Console wizard, existing tags of the antecedent objects (S3 bucket, Redshift cluster, Data source, ML model) will also be carried over into the new object.
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AWS GovCloud (US) Receives FedRAMP High Baseline P-ATO from the JAB
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AWS Lambda Available in Asia Pacific (Sydney)
Posted On: Jun 23, 2016AWS Lambda is now available in the Asia Pacific (Sydney) region.
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Amazon API Gateway Available in Asia Pacific (Sydney) Region
Posted On: Jun 23, 2016Amazon API Gateway is now available in the Asia Pacific (Sydney) region.
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Amazon Cognito Adds Support for SAML identity providers
Posted On: Jun 23, 2016You can now use Amazon Cognito to let your users sign-in through identity providers that support Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) such as Microsoft Active Directory Federation Services (ADFS). You now have an additional option with SAML for adding sign-in to your mobile and web apps in addition to Cognito user pools, social identity providers such as Facebook, Twitter, and Google, Open ID Connect providers, and your own authentication system.
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AWS CodePipeline Available in EU (Ireland) Region
Posted On: Jun 23, 2016AWS CodePipeline is now available in the EU (Ireland) AWS region.
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AWS Support enables tagging capabilities for Trusted Advisor
Posted On: Jun 23, 2016Customers can now more easily identify opportunities to optimize their AWS infrastructure with Trusted Advisor. With tagging support enabled, customers can filter Trusted Advisor reports using existing resource tags, and view best practice recommendations based on the context of their applications or workloads. AWS resources are often shared across multiple solutions, and tag-based views provide customers the ability to optimize based on the unique attributes of each workload.
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IAM Service Last Accessed Data Now Available for South America (Sao Paulo) and Asia Pacific (Seoul) Regions
Posted On: Jun 22, 2016AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) service last accessed data is now available for two additional regions: South America (Sao Paulo) and Asia Pacific (Seoul). Service last accessed data helps you identify overly permissive policies attached to an IAM entity (a user, group, or role). With this release, you can view the date when an IAM entity last accessed an AWS service in these two regions.
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AWS CodePipeline Enables Failed Action Retry
Posted On: Jun 22, 2016You can now retry an action in AWS CodePipline after it has failed. Previously, you needed to manually restart the entire pipeline or commit a new change to your pipeline’s source stage to retry the failed action.
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AWS Direct Connect Now Supports a Self-Service Feature for LOAs
Posted On: Jun 22, 2016Today, we're announcing the ability to download your LOA-CFA for your Direct Connect connection in the AWS management console. This self-service feature makes it easier for you to access your LOA and provision your connection quicker. You now have access to your LOA anytime you need it from anywhere you can access the AWS console. Previously, LOAs were sent by email and if they expired after 90 days, you had to contact AWS Support for a refreshed LOA. Now, you can log into the AWS console and download your LOA without having to worry about which email address it was sent to.
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AWS OpsWorks Supports CentOS
Posted On: Jun 22, 2016You can now use AWS OpsWorks to configure and manage Amazon EC2 instances and on-premises servers running CentOS 7.
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Docker Datacenter on the AWS Cloud: Quick Start Reference Deployment
Posted On: Jun 21, 2016Note: Docker Datacenter is now Docker Enterprise Edition (EE). The AWS Quick Start reflects this change.
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Amazon EBS now supports cross-account copying of encrypted snapshots
Posted On: Jun 21, 2016Starting today, you can copy encrypted Amazon EBS snapshots between accounts, a capability previously supported only for unencrypted snapshots. Now you can easily copy encrypted snapshots between your development, test and production environments or between different department and project accounts. It also makes it easier for you to follow AWS security best practices which include copying encrypted snapshots to separately managed accounts, in the same or other regions, to provide an extra level of account isolation.
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Amazon EC2 Windows support for Microsoft SQL Server 2016
Posted On: Jun 20, 2016Amazon EC2 now fully supports SQL Server 2016, the most recent release of Microsoft SQL Server. SQL Server 2016 AMIs are available in four editions - Web, Express, Standard and Enterprise and runs on Windows Server 2012 R2. Amazon EC2 support for SQL Server 2016 enables you to leverage new capabilities such as real-time analytics, visualizations across devices, deeper security and new big-data solutions for your mission-critical applications running on AWS.
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AWS Partner Network Launches New Competency, Government Partner Solutions
Posted On: Jun 20, 2016AWS Competency Program & Government Partners
The AWS Partner Network (APN) is thrilled to announce the launch of the new AWS Government Competency. The AWS Competency Program is designed to highlight APN Partners who have demonstrated technical proficiency and proven customer success in specialized solution areas and categories.
AWS Government Competency Partners provide solutions to—and/or have deep experience working with—government customers to deliver mission-critical workloads and applications on AWS.
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Oracle Repository Creation Utility (RCU) and April PSU Patches are now available for Amazon RDS for Oracle
Posted On: Jun 17, 2016You can now use the Oracle Repository Creation Utility (RCU) 12c to create schemas for Fusion Middleware components on Amazon RDS for Oracle. This feature is available with new Amazon RDS Oracle 12c and 11g database versions "11.2.0.4.v8", "12.1.0.1.v5" and "12.1.0.2.v4". These versions include the April 2016 Oracle Patch Set Updates (PSU). The “11.2.0.4.v8” and “12.1.0.2.v4” versions include the recommended database patches for Oracle GoldenGate. We also added the ability to grant privileges on SYS objects with the “grant option” to the versions.
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Amazon CloudWatch Events Available in the South America (São Paulo) and Asia Pacific (Seoul) Regions
Posted On: Jun 16, 2016The Amazon CloudWatch Events service is now available in the South America (São Paulo) and Asia Pacific (Seoul) regions.
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New Amazon EC2 Spot Console Now Supports Spot Fleet and Spot Blocks
Posted On: Jun 16, 2016Spot Instances with a defined duration (also known as Spot blocks) are no longer available to new customers since July 1, 2021. For customers that have previously used the feature, we will continue to support Spot Instances with a defined duration until December 31, 2022.
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Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL now supports cross-region read replicas
Posted On: Jun 15, 2016You can now quickly create cross-region read replicas for your unencrypted Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL database instances with just a few clicks on the AWS Management Console. You can use this feature to reduce read latency for your customers in different geographic locations, to create a backup of your primary database for disaster recovery purposes, or quickly migrate your database to a different AWS Region.
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AWS CodeDeploy Available in Asia Pacific (Seoul) Region
Posted On: Jun 15, 2016AWS CodeDeploy is now available in the Asia Pacific (Seoul) AWS region.
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New AWS Public Data Set - IRS 990 Filing Data
Posted On: Jun 15, 2016Form 990 is the form used by the United States Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to gather financial information about nonprofit organizations. Data from over 1,000,000 IRS 990 electronic filings are now available for anyone to use via Amazon S3. Electronic filings from 2011 to the present are currently available, and the IRS will add new 990 filing data each month.
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New Quick Start: Standardized Architecture for NIST High-Impact Controls on AWS Featuring Trend Micro Deep Security
Posted On: Jun 15, 2016This new Quick Start deploys a standardized environment that helps organizations meet the following requirements:
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New Edge Location in New Delhi, India for Amazon CloudFront and Amazon Route 53
Posted On: Jun 14, 2016We are pleased to announce that we’ve added a new edge location in New Delhi, India for Amazon CloudFront and Amazon Route 53. The New Delhi location is our third edge location in India (joining Mumbai and Chennai), and brings the total number of worldwide edge locations to 56.
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AWS Config offers a new rule for assessing license compliance and a console in Simplified Chinese
Posted On: Jun 14, 2016AWS Config Rules is a set of governance capabilities that allow IT Administrators to define guidelines for provisioning and configuring AWS resources and then continuously monitor compliance with those guidelines. You can choose from a collection of AWS managed rules, which are predefined, customizable rules that are based on common best practices. AWS Config now offers a new managed rule that checks Amazon EC2 instances for a specified tenancy (host, dedicated or default). You can provide an Amazon Machine Image (AMI) ID to check EC2 instances launched only from that AMI and also specify an EC2 Dedicated Host ID to check whether your EC2 instances are launched on that EC2 dedicated host. This rule enables you to assess compliance with your server-bound software licenses by checking whether your EC2 instances are launched on a physical server dedicated to your use.
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Get Even More Details from Service Last Accessed Data
Posted On: Jun 14, 2016In December, AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) released service last accessed data, which shows the time when an IAM entity (a user, group, or role) last accessed an AWS service. This provided a powerful tool to help you grant least-privilege permissions. Starting today, it’s easier to identify where permissions can be reduced based on additional service last accessed data. With this release, you have access to the following for IAM entities and policies:
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Amazon SES Now Supports Email Headers in Notifications
Posted On: Jun 14, 2016Amazon SES can now include the original email headers in the bounce, complaint, and delivery notifications it provides through Amazon SNS. This feature enables you to more easily match a notification to the specific email that triggered it, because the notification can contain the email headers that you used when you passed the email to Amazon SES. Previously, when you wanted to match a notification to a specific sent email, you needed to store a mapping between the email and the message ID that Amazon SES returned when you sent the message. Now, you can add a custom header to the email and then retrieve that custom header from the notification, without storing the message ID on your side. You can include any other custom headers that might be useful to you. For example, resellers can now add client identifiers for improved tracking.
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Microsoft Servers on the AWS Cloud: Quick Start Reference Deployment
Posted On: Jun 9, 2016NOTE: This Quick Start is no longer available. See https://aws.amazon.com/quickstart for our latest Quick Start catalog.
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Amazon RDS adds Multi-AZ support for SQL Server in Tokyo, Sydney and Sao Paulo AWS Regions
Posted On: Jun 9, 2016Amazon RDS now offers Multi-AZ support for Amazon RDS for SQL Server in three new regions - Asia Pacific (Tokyo), Asia Pacific (Sydney) and South America (Sao Paulo) AWS Regions. This new high availability option leverages SQL Server Mirroring technology with additional improvements to meet the requirements of enterprise-grade production workloads running on SQL Server. The Multi-AZ deployment option provides enhanced availability and data durability by automatically replicating database updates between two AWS Availability Zones. Availability Zones are physically separate locations with independent infrastructure engineered to be insulated from failures in other Availability Zones.
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AWS CloudFormation Adds Support for Amazon VPC Flow Logs, Amazon Kinesis Firehose Delivery Streams, and Other Updates
Posted On: Jun 9, 2016AWS CloudFormation has added new resource support. You can now provision the following resources using CloudFormation:
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AWS Partner Network Launches New Competency, Migration Partner Solutions
Posted On: Jun 8, 2016AWS Competency Program & Migration
The AWS Partner Network (APN) is thrilled to announce the launch of the new AWS Migration Competency. The AWS Competency Program is designed to highlight APN Partners who have demonstrated technical proficiency and proven customer success in specialized solution areas and categories.
AWS Migration Competency Partners provide solutions or have deep experience helping businesses move successfully to AWS, through all phases of complex migration projects, discovery, planning, migration and operations.
Migration Launch Partners
Congrats to our initial launch partners who have qualified for the Migration Competency:
- Migration Delivery Partners: 2nd Watch, Accenture, Classmethod, ClearScale, Cloud Technology Partners, cloudpack, Cloudreach, Cognizant Technology Solutions, Corpinfo, CSC, FPT Software, Infosys, Logicworks, REAN Cloud, Serverworks, Slalom Consulting, Smartronix
- Migration Consulting Partners: Apps Associates, Aquilent, Datapipe, Flux7, Pythian, TriNimbus
- Migration Technology for Discovery & Planning: Atadata, Cloudamize, RISC Networks
- Migration Technology for Workload Mobility: Racemi, CloudEndure, Atadata
- Migration Technology for Application Profiling: New Relic, AppDynamics, Dynatrace Ruxit
Learn More
If you're a customer interested in learning more about Migration Partner Solutions, click here.
If you’re an APN Technology Partner or APN Consulting Partner focused on migrating customers to AWS, click here to learn more.
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Tagging now Available with the Amazon Machine Learning API
Posted On: Jun 7, 2016You now have the ability to add, modify, remove, and list tags on an object through the Amazon Machine Learning (Amazon ML) API. You can also grant and revoke permissions for these operations through Identity and Access Management (IAM) on the API.
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AWS Directory Service for Microsoft Active Directory (Enterprise Edition) is now available in the EU (Frankfurt) Region
Posted On: Jun 6, 2016AWS Directory Service for Microsoft Active Directory (Enterprise Edition), also known as Microsoft AD, is now available in the EU (Frankfurt) Region. This makes it possible for you to use an AWS fully managed Active Directory in the cloud. Among the use cases supported by Microsoft AD, you can:
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Apache Tez 0.8.3 and Apache Phoenix 4.7.0 now available on Amazon EMR
Posted On: Jun 2, 2016You can now use Apache Tez 0.8.3, Apache Phoenix 4.7.0, and upgraded versions of Presto (0.147), Apache HBase (1.2.1), and Apache Mahout (0.12.0) on Amazon EMR release 4.7.0. Also, Amazon Redshift JDBC drivers are now included on Amazon EMR clusters for use with components such as the Spark-Redshift connector.
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Amazon CloudWatch Events Available in the US West (N. California) and Asia Pacific (Singapore) Regions
Posted On: Jun 2, 2016The Amazon CloudWatch Events service is now available in the US West (N. California) and Asia Pacific (Singapore) regions.
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Announcing Amazon VPC Flow Logs Support in the Beijing (China) Region
Posted On: Jun 2, 2016Amazon VPC Flow Logs is now available in the Beijing (China) region. VPC Flow Logs is a feature that enables you to capture information about the IP traffic going to and from your VPC. Once enabled for a particular VPC, VPC subnet or Elastic Network Interface (ENI), relevant network traffic will be logged to CloudWatch Logs for storage and analysis by your own applications or third-party tools. Additionally, metrics can be created to identify trends and patterns.
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Introducing New Amazon EC2 Spot Jenkins Plug-In – Save up to 90% Off Jenkins Infrastructure Costs
Posted On: Jun 2, 2016Starting today, you can now use the new Amazon EC2 Spot Jenkins plug-in to help you save up to 90% off Jenkins infrastructure costs, compared to when running them on Amazon EC2. This plug-in makes it easier to save money with EC2 Spot instances, by allowing you to configure Jenkins to automatically scale a fleet of Spot instances up or down depending on the number jobs to be completed. To learn more and get started, download the plug-in.
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New Data Warehousing on AWS Training Available
Posted On: Jun 2, 2016Data Warehousing on AWS is a new three-day course that is designed for database architects, database administrators, database developers, and data analysts/scientists. It introduces you to concepts, strategies, and best practices for designing a cloud-based data warehousing solution using Amazon Redshift. This course demonstrates how to collect, store, and prepare data for the data warehouse by using other AWS services such as Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon EMR, Amazon Kinesis, and Amazon S3. Additionally, this course demonstrates how you can use business intelligence tools to perform analysis on your data. Organizations who are looking to get more out of their data by implementing a Data Warehousing solution or expanding their current Data Warehousing practice are encouraged to sign up.
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AWS CodePipeline Adds Integration with AWS OpsWorks
Posted On: Jun 2, 2016You can now choose AWS OpsWorks as a deployment provider in your software release pipelines modeled in AWS CodePipeline. This lets you automate the release of updated application code and Chef cookbooks to your applications and instances running in OpsWorks.
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Amazon RDS Now Supports MariaDB 10.1
Posted On: Jun 1, 2016Starting today, customers can launch MariaDB version 10.1 instances on Amazon RDS. They can also upgrade their existing Amazon RDS for MariaDB database instances from version 10.0 to 10.1 using either the console or API.
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Alces Flight: Effortless HPC is Born (Finally)
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AWS Solutions Training for Partners: Big Data & Analytics
Posted On: Jun 1, 2016We recognize how important it is for APN Partners to learn how AWS solutions can solve customer business needs. To this end, we’ve expanded our AWS Solutions Training for Partners with a second topic on Big Data & Analytics. This workshop is designed to help business professionals at APN Consulting Partner firms understand and address big data and analytics challenges faced by small-medium and enterprise businesses. We cover AWS best practices and case studies, and discuss how to address customer pain points with AWS big data and analytics solutions. This free, one day workshop compliments and extends concepts from the Big Data & Analytics e-learning and AWS Business Professional, which are both free, online courses available to all APN Partners via the APN Portal.
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Standardized Architecture for NIST-based Assurance Frameworks on the AWS Cloud: Quick Start Reference Deployment
Posted On: Jun 1, 2016This major update to the NIST 800-53 Quick Start (published earlier this year) deploys a standardized environment that helps support additional NIST-based security requirements on the AWS cloud. Specifically, it helps organizations with workloads that fall in scope for any of the following:
- National Institute of Standard and Technology (NIST) SP 800-53 (Revision 4)
- NIST SP 800-171
- The OMB Trusted Internet Connection (TIC) Initiative – FedRAMP Overlay (pilot)
- The DoD Cloud Computing Security Requirements Guide (SRG)
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Amazon Aurora now supports cross region replication
Posted On: Jun 1, 2016Starting today, you can create cross-region read replicas for Amazon Aurora. This allows you to serve read traffic from your users in different geographic regions and increases your application’s responsiveness.