AWS News Blog
Automate OS Image Build Pipelines with EC2 Image Builder
Earlier in my career, I can recall being assigned the task of creating and maintaining operating system (OS) images for use by my development team. This was a time-consuming process, sometimes error-prone, needing me to manually re-create and re-snapshot images frequently. As I’m sure you can imagine, it also involved a significant amount of manual […]
A New, Simplified, Bring-Your-Own-License Experience for Microsoft Windows Server and SQL Server
Customers have asked us to provide an easier way to bring, and manage, their existing licenses for Microsoft Windows Server and SQL Server to AWS. Today we are excited to announce a new, simpler, bring-your-own-license (BYOL) experience. When launching Windows Server or SQL Server instances, customers can use licenses from AWS with a pay-as-you-go model […]
New AWS Program to Help Future-proof Your End-of-Support Windows Server Applications
If you have been in business a while, you might find yourself in a situation where you have legacy Windows Server applications, critical to your business, that you can’t move to a newer, supported version of Windows Server. Customers give us many reasons why they can’t move these legacy applications – perhaps the application has dependencies […]
AWS DeepComposer – Compose Music with Generative Machine Learning Models
Today, we’re extremely happy to announce AWS DeepComposer, the world’s first musical keyboard combined with a generative AI service. Yes, you read that right. Machine learning (ML) requires quite a bit of math, computer science, code, and infrastructure. These topics are exceedingly important but to a lot of aspiring ML developers, they look overwhelming and […]
The Next Evolution in AWS Single Sign-On
Update Mar 15, 2023 – AWS Single Sign-On is now AWS IAM Identity Center. Update Feb 23, 2021 – For the latest information on how to set up Azure AD with AWS SSO for automatic provisioning please see our documentation here. Efficiently managing user identities at scale requires new solutions that connect the multiple identity […]
AWS DeepRacer Update – New Features & New Racing Opportunities
I first wrote about AWS DeepRacer at this time last year, and described it as an opportunity for you to get some hands-on experience with Reinforcement Learning (RL). Along with the rest of the AWS team, I believe that you should always be improving your existing skills and building new ones. We launched the DeepRacer […]
New for Amazon Aurora – Use Machine Learning Directly From Your Databases
March 23, 2020: Post updated to clarify networking, IAM permissions, and database configurations required to use machine learning from Aurora databases. A new notebook using SageMaker Autopilot gives a complete example, from the set up of the model to the creation of the SQL function using the endpoint. The integrations described in this post are now available for MySQL and […]
AWS Load Balancer Update – Lots of New Features for You!
The AWS Application Load Balancer (ALB) and Network Load Balancer (NLB) are important parts of any highly available and scalable system. Today I am happy to share a healthy list of new features for ALB and NLB, all driven by customer requests. Here’s what I have: Weighted Target Groups for ALB Least Outstanding Requests for […]