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What was announced? Amazon Fraud Detector is now Generally Available! ? In case you missed the announcement during 2019 re:Invent week, Amazon Fraud Detector was originally released in preview mode on December 3rd, 2019. But today it is now Generally Available for customers to check out. What is Amazon Fraud Detector? Amazon Fraud Detector is […]

AWS DataSync now supports transfers to and from self-managed object storage! ? This new feature makes it easy for customers to automate copying large amounts of data between on-premises object storage and AWS Cloud Storage. What is AWS DataSync? If you’re new to AWS DataSync, you may be wondering how this service works. AWS DataSync […]

A few weeks ago, I wrote a post to announce the new AWS Graviton2 Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instance type, the M6g. Since then, hundreds of customers have observed significant cost-performance benefits. These include Honeycomb.io, SmugMug, Redbox, and Valnet Inc. On June 11, we announced two new families of instances based on AWS […]

Snapshots are an integral part of Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS). Snapshots allow you to create a block-level, point-in-time copy of your volumes for backup, or disaster-recovery purposes. Snapshots are incremental, only data modified since the last snapshots are copied again. You can share snapshots between AWS Regions, or AWS Accounts. Once you have […]

South Korea is considered the most wired country in the world with an internet penetration rate of 96%, according to Pew Research Center. To meet high customer demand, AWS launched our Asia Pacific (Seoul) Region in 2016 and expanded the region with a third Availability Zone (AZ) in May 2019. Now AWS has tens of […]

Today, I am so excited to tell you about the new Amazon Interactive Video Service, which allows you to add live video directly into your own apps and websites. If you are anything like me, you are going to be blown away by how simple the team have made it to integrate interactive, low latency, […]

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 […]

At AWS re:Invent 2018, we announced AWS IoT SiteWise in preview which is a fully managed AWS IoT service that you can use to collect, organize, and analyze data from industrial equipment at scale. Getting performance metrics from industrial equipment is challenging because data is often locked into proprietary on-premises data stores and typically requires […]