AWS News Blog
Update on Amazon Linux AMI end-of-life
Update Jan 2, 2024 – The Amazon Linux AMI (also called Amazon Linux 1) reached its end of life on December 31, 2023. Amazon Linux AMI will no longer receive any security updates or bug fixes. We encourage customers to upgrade their applications to use Amazon Linux 2023, which includes long term support through 2028. […]
AWS DataSync Update – Support for Amazon FSx for Windows File Server
AWS DataSync helps you to move large amounts of data into and out of the AWS Cloud. As I noted in New – AWS DataSync – Automated and Accelerated Data Transfer, our customers use DataSync for their large-scale migration, upload & process, archiving, and backup/DR use cases. Amazon FSx for Windows File Server gives you […]
New – T3 Instances on Dedicated Single-Tenant Hardware
T3 instances use a burst pricing model that allows you to host general purpose workloads at low cost, with access to sustainable, full-core performance when needed. You can choose from seven different sizes and receive an assured baseline amount of processing power, courtesy of custom high frequency Intel® Xeon® Scalable Processors. Our customers use them […]
Amazon EKS Price Reduction
Since it launched 18 months ago, Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) has released a staggering 62 features, 14 regions, and 4 Kubernetes versions. While developers, like me, are loving the speed of innovation and the incredible new features, today, we have an announcement that is going to bring a smile to the people in […]
CloudEndure Highly Automated Disaster Recovery – 80% Price Reduction
AWS acquired CloudEndure last year. After the acquisition we began working with our new colleagues to integrate their products into the AWS product portfolio. CloudEndure Disaster Recovery is designed to help you minimize downtime and data loss. It continuously replicates the contents of your on-premises, virtual, or cloud-based systems to a low-cost staging area in […]
In the Works – AWS Osaka Local Region Expansion to Full Region
Today, we are excited to announce that, due to high customer demand for additional services in Osaka, the Osaka Local Region will be expanded into a full AWS Region with three Availability Zones by early 2021. Like all AWS Regions, each Availability Zone will be isolated with its own power source, cooling system, and physical security, […]
AWS Backup: EC2 Instances, EFS Single File Restore, and Cross-Region Backup
Since we launched AWS Backup last year, over 20,000 AWS customers are protecting petabytes of data every day. AWS Backup is a fully managed, centralized backup service simplifying the management of your backups for your Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) volumes, your databases (Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) or Amazon DynamoDB), AWS Storage Gateway […]
New for Amazon EFS – IAM Authorization and Access Points
When building or migrating applications, we often need to share data across multiple compute nodes. Many applications use file APIs and Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) makes it easy to use those applications on AWS, providing a scalable, fully managed Network File System (NFS) that you can access from other AWS services and on-premises resources. EFS […]