AWS News Blog
Amazon QuickSight – Fast & Easy to Use Business Intelligence for Big Data at 1/10th the Cost of Traditional Solutions
Over the last couple of years, the process of collecting, uploading, storing, and processing data on AWS has become faster, simpler, and increasingly comprehensive. We have delivered a broad set of data-centric services that tackle many of the issues faced by our customers. For example: Managing Databases is Painful and Difficult – Amazon Relational Database […]
Read MoreAWS Global Partner Summit – Report from re:Invent 2015
The AWS Global Partner Summit just wrapped up! This annual event is held the day before the main AWS re:Invent keynotes, breakout sessions, and other events. During the event, members of the AWS Partner Network (APN) had the opportunity to hear from senior AWS leaders. Traditionally, the talks have provided insights into the future direction […]
Read MoreNew – EC2 Spot Blocks for Defined-Duration Workloads
Update July 2021 – Spot Instances with a defined duration (also known as Spot blocks) are no longer available to new customers as of 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. If your workload is interruption […]
Read MoreComing Soon – EC2 Dedicated Hosts
Sometimes business enables technology, and sometimes technology enables business! If you are migrating from an existing environment to AWS, you may have purchased volume licenses for software that is licensed for use on a server with a certain number of sockets or physical cores. Or, you may be required to run it on a specific […]
Read MoreNew – AWS WAF
Have you ever taken the time to watch the access and error logs from your web server scroll past? In addition to legitimate well-formed requests from users and spiders, you will probably see all sorts of unseemly and downright scary requests far too often. For example, I checked the logs for one of my servers […]
Read MoreAWS Week in Review – September 28, 2015
September 8, 2021: Amazon Elasticsearch Service has been renamed to Amazon OpenSearch Service. See details. Let’s take a quick look at what happened in AWS-land last week: Monday September 28 We announced that you can now Receive and Process Incoming Email with Amazon SES. We announced an Elastic Beanstalk Update, with Support for Java and […]
Read MoreSpot Fleet Update – Console Support, Fleet Scaling, CloudFormation
There’s a lot of buzz about Spot instances these days. Customers are really starting to understand the power that comes with the ability to name their own price for compute power! After launching the Spot fleet API in May to allow you to manage thousands of Spot instances with a single request, we followed up […]
Read MoreAre You Well-Architected?
Seattle-born musical legend Jimi Hendrix started out his career with a landmark album titled Are You Experienced? I’ve got a similar question for you: Are You Well-Architected? In other words, have you chosen a cloud architecture that is in alignment with the best practices for the use of AWS? We want to make sure that […]
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