AWS News Blog

New – AWS Transfer for FTP and FTPS, in addition to existing SFTP

AWS Transfer for SFTP was launched on November 2018 as a fully managed service that enables the transfer of files directly into and out of Amazon S3 using the Secure File Transfer Protocol (SFTP). Today, we are happy to announce the expansion of the service to add support for FTPS and FTP, which makes it […]

New – Use CloudWatch Synthetics to Monitor Sites, API Endpoints, Web Workflows, and More

Today’s applications encompass hundreds or thousands of moving parts including containers, microservices, legacy internal services, and third-party services. In addition to monitoring the health and performance of each part, you need to make sure that the parts come together to deliver an acceptable customer experience. CloudWatch Synthetics (announced at AWS re:Invent 2019) allows you to […]

New – Announcing Amazon AppFlow

Software as a service (SaaS) applications are becoming increasingly important to our customers, and adoption is growing rapidly. While there are many benefits to this way of consuming software, one challenge is that data is now living in lots of different places. To get meaningful insights from this data, we need to have a way […]

Announcing TorchServe, An Open Source Model Server for PyTorch

PyTorch is one of the most popular open source libraries for deep learning. Developers and researchers particularly enjoy the flexibility it gives them in building and training models. Yet, this is only half the story, and deploying and managing models in production is often the most difficult part of the machine learning process: building bespoke […]

Capacity-Optimized Spot Instance Allocation in Action at Mobileye and Skyscanner

Amazon EC2 Spot Instances were launched way back in 2009. The instances are spare EC2 compute capacity that is available at savings of up to 90% when compared to the On-Demand prices. Spot Instances can be interrupted by EC2 (with a two minute heads-up), but are otherwise the same as On-Demand instances. You can use […]

AWS Snowball Edge Update – Faster Hardware, OpsHub GUI, IAM, and AWS Systems Manager

Over the last couple of years I’ve told you about several members of the “Snow” family of edge computing and data transfer devices – The original Snowball, the more-powerful Snowball Edge, and the exabyte-scale Snowmobile. Today I would like to tell you about the latest updates to Snowball Edge. Here’s what I have for you […]