AWS News Blog
Create Snapshots From Any Block Storage Using EBS Direct APIs
I am excited to announce you can now create Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) snapshots from any block storage data, such as on-premises volumes, volumes from another cloud provider, existing block data stored on Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), or even your own laptop :-) AWS customers using the cloud for disaster recovery […]
Single Sign-On between Okta Universal Directory and AWS
Update (May 2023) – Updated the final CLI example. Enterprises adopting the AWS Cloud want to effectively manage identities. Having one central place to manage identities makes it easier to enforce policies, to manage access permissions, and to reduce the overhead by removing the need to duplicate users and user permissions across multiple identity silos. […]
New – AWS Amplify Libraries for Android and iOS
When you develop mobile applications, you must develop a set of cloud-powered functionalities for each project. For example, most applications require user authentication or detailed in-app analytics. Your application most probably calls REST or GraphQL APIs and is required to support offline scenarios and data synchronization. AWS Amplify makes it easy to integrate such functionalities […]
New – EC2 M6g Instances, powered by AWS Graviton2
Starting today, you can use our first 6th generation Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) General Purpose instance: the M6g. The “g” stands for “Graviton2“, our next generation Arm-based chip designed by AWS (and Annapurna Labs, an Amazon company), utilizing 64-bit Arm Neoverse N1 cores. These processors support 256-bit, always-on, DRAM encryption. They also include […]
Now Open – AWS Africa (Cape Town) Region
September 8, 2021: Amazon Elasticsearch Service has been renamed to Amazon OpenSearch Service. See details. The AWS Region in Africa that Jeff promised you in 2018 is now open. The official name is Africa (Cape Town) and the API name is af-south-1. You can start using this new Region today to deploy workloads and store […]
Amazon Redshift update – ra3.4xlarge nodes
Since we launched Amazon Redshift as a cloud data warehouse service more than seven years ago, tens of thousands of customers built their workloads using it. We are always listening to your feedback and, in December last year, we announced our 3rd generation RA3 node type providing you the ability to scale compute and storage […]
Amazon Detective – Rapid Security Investigation and Analysis
Almost five years ago, I blogged about a solution that automatically analyzes AWS CloudTrail data to generate alerts upon sensitive API usage. It was a simple and basic solution for security analysis and automation. But demanding AWS customers have multiple AWS accounts, collect data from multiple sources, and simple searches based on regular expressions are […]
Materialize your Amazon Redshift Views to Speed Up Query Execution
At AWS, we take pride in building state of the art virtualization technologies to simplify the management and access to cloud services such as networks, computing resources or object storage. In a Relational Database Management Systems (RDBMS), a view is virtualization applied to tables : it is a virtual table representing the result of a […]