AWS News Blog
NICE EnginFrame – User-Friendly HPC on AWS
Last year I announced that AWS had signed an agreement to acquire NICE, and that we planned to work together to create even better tools and services for high performance and scientific computing. Today I am happy to be able to tell you about the launch of NICE EnginFrame 2017. This product is designed to […]
New Amazon AppStream 2.0 Features – Fleet Auto Scaling, Image Builder, SAML, Metrics, and Fleet Management
My colleague Gene Farrell introduced you to Amazon AppStream 2.0 late last year. In his guest post, Gene explained how AppStream 2.0 lets you run desktop applications securely on any device, from within the comfort of an HTML5 web browser (read the entire post to learn more). For example, I used the AppStream 2.0 Try […]
EC2 Run Command is Now a CloudWatch Events Target
Ok, time for another peanut butter and chocolate post! Let’s combine EC2 Run Command (New EC2 Run Command – Remote Instance Management at Scale) and CloudWatch Events (New CloudWatch Events – Track and Respond to Changes to Your AWS Resources) and see what we get. EC2 Run Command is part of EC2 Systems Manager. It […]
S3 Storage Management Update – Analytics, Object Tagging, Inventory, and Metrics
Today I would like to tell you about four S3 features that will give you detailed insights into your storage and your access patterns. You can see what and how much you are storing, how it is being used, and you can make informed decisions about the use of S3 storage classes as a result. […]
Amazon WorkDocs Update – Commenting & Reviewing Enhancements and a New Activity Feed
As I have told you in the past, we like to drink our own Champagne at Amazon. Practically speaking, this means that we make use of our own services, tools, and applications as part of our jobs, and that we supply the development teams with feedback if we have an idea for an improvement or […]
New – Instance Size Flexibility for EC2 Reserved Instances
Reserved Instances allow AWS customers to receive a significant discount on their EC2 usage (up to 75% when compared to On-Demand pricing), along with capacity reservation when the RIs are purchased for use in a specific Availability Zone (AZ). Late last year we made Reserved Instances more flexible with the launch of Regional RIs that […]
AWS Week in Review – March 6, 2017
This edition includes all of our announcements, content from all of our blogs, and as much community-generated AWS content as I had time for! Monday March 6 We announced the AWS Health Tools Repository. We announced that you can now Send High-Volume SMS Messages from Dedicated Short Codes. We announced that Amazon Elastic File System […]
AWS Database Migration Service – 20,000 Migrations and Counting
I first wrote about AWS Database Migration Service just about a year ago in my AWS Database Migration Service post. At that time I noted that over 1,000 AWS customers had already made use of the service as part of their move to AWS. As a quick recap, AWS Database Migration Service and Schema Conversion […]