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Top Announcements of AWS re:Invent 2022

AWS VP and Chief Evangelist Jeff Barr, plus a select group of AWS Developer Advocate colleagues, have personally chosen their picks for some of the most impactful and exciting product and service launches to debut at AWS re:Invent 2022. Below you’ll find links to their AWS News Blog posts (plus a few noteworthy What’s New […]

New – Amazon RDS Optimized Reads and Optimized Writes

Way back in 2009 I wrote Introducing Amazon RDS – The Amazon Relational Database Service and told you that: RDS makes it easier for you to set up, operate, and scale a relational database in the cloud. You get direct database access without worrying about infrastructure provisioning, software maintenance, or common database management tasks. Since […]

Classifying and Extracting Mortgage Loan Data with Amazon Textract

Mortgage loan applications, at least in the United States, comprise around 500 or more pages of diverse documents. In order for applications to be reviewed, all these documents need to be classified, and the data on each form extracted. This isn’t as easy as it might sound! Besides different data structures in each document, the […]

Protect Sensitive Data with Amazon CloudWatch Logs

Today we are announcing Amazon CloudWatch Logs data protection, a new set of capabilities for Amazon CloudWatch Logs that leverage pattern matching and machine learning (ML) to detect and protect sensitive log data in transit. While developers try to prevent logging sensitive information such as Social Security numbers, credit card details, email addresses, and passwords, […]

New – Amazon CloudWatch Cross-Account Observability

Deploying applications using multiple AWS accounts is a good practice to establish security and billing boundaries between teams and reduce the impact of operational events. When you adopt a multi-account strategy, you have to analyze telemetry data that is scattered across several accounts. To give you the flexibility to monitor all the components of your […]

New – A Fully Managed Schema Conversion in AWS Database Migration Service

Since we launched AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS) in 2016, customers have securely migrated more than 800,000 databases to AWS with minimal downtime. AWS DMS supports migration between 20+ database and analytics engines, such as Oracle to Amazon Aurora MySQL, MySQL to Amazon Relational Database (Amazon RDS) MySQL, Microsoft SQL Server to Amazon Aurora […]

AWS Application Migration Service Major Updates – New Migration Servers Grouping, Updated Launch, and Post-Launch Template

Last year, we introduced the general availability of AWS Application Migration Service that simplifies and expedites your migration to AWS by automatically converting your source servers from physical, virtual, or cloud infrastructure to run natively on AWS. Since the GA launch, we have made improvements, adding features such as agentless replication, MAP 2.0 auto-tagging and […]

New – Announcing Amazon EFS Elastic Throughput

Today, we are announcing the availability of Amazon EFS Elastic Throughput, a new throughput mode for Amazon EFS that is designed to provide your applications with as much throughput as they need with pay-as-you-use pricing. This new throughput mode enables you to further simplify running workloads and applications on AWS by providing shared file storage […]