AWS News Blog
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AWS Security Hub Now Generally Available
I’m a developer, or at least that’s what I tell myself while coming to terms with being a manager. I’m definitely not an infosec expert. I’ve been paged more than once in my career because something I wrote or configured caused a security concern. When systems enable frequent deploys and remove gatekeepers for experimentation, sometimes […]
AWS Control Tower – Set up & Govern a Multi-Account AWS Environment
Earlier this month I met with an enterprise-scale AWS customer. They told me that they are planning to go all-in on AWS, and want to benefit from all that we have learned about setting up and running AWS at scale. In addition to setting up a Cloud Center of Excellence, they want to set up […]
New – UDP Load Balancing for Network Load Balancer
The Network Load Balancer is designed to handle tens of millions of requests per second while maintaining high throughput at ultra low latency, with no effort on your part (read my post, New Network Load Balancer – Effortless Scaling to Millions of Requests per Second to learn more). In response to customer requests, we have […]
Now Available: New C5 instance sizes and bare metal instances
Amazon EC2 C5 instances are very popular for running compute-heavy workloads like batch processing, distributed analytics, high-performance computing, machine/deep learning inference, ad serving, highly scalable multiplayer gaming, and video encoding. Today, we are happy to expand the Amazon EC2 C5 family with: New larger virtualized instance sizes: 12xlarge and 24xlarge, A bare metal option. The […]
Amazon S3 Update – SigV2 Deprecation Period Extended & Modified
Update (August 2024, JB) – The revised plan outlined below is still in effect. If you want to write IAM policies that disallow requests that were signed with SigV2, use the s3:signatureversion condition key. Every request that you make to the Amazon S3 API must be signed to ensure that it is authentic. In the […]
Amazon Personalize is Now Generally Available
Today, we’re happy to announce that Amazon Personalize is available to all AWS customers. Announced in preview at AWS re:Invent 2018, Amazon Personalize is a fully-managed service that allows you to create private, customized personalization recommendations for your applications, with little to no machine learning experience required. Whether it is a timely video recommendation inside […]
Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (MSK) – Now Generally Available
September 8, 2021: Amazon Elasticsearch Service has been renamed to Amazon OpenSearch Service. See details. I am always amazed at how our customers are using streaming data. For example, Thomson Reuters, one of the world’s most trusted news organizations for businesses and professionals, built a solution to capture, analyze, and visualize analytics data to help product […]
Now Available – AWS IoT Things Graph
Update November 9, 2022 – AWS IoT Things Graph has been transitioned to AWS IoT TwinMaker. To learn more, please visit the AWS IoT TwinMaker page here. In an effort to ensure a great experience, expired links in this post have also been updated or removed. We announced AWS IoT Things Graph last November and […]