AWS News Blog
New – Amazon EMR Instance Fleets
Today we’re excited to introduce a new feature for Amazon EMR clusters called instance fleets. Instance fleets gives you a wider variety of options and intelligence around instance provisioning. You can now provide a list of up to 5 instance types with corresponding weighted capacities and spot bid prices (including spot blocks)! EMR will automatically provision […]
Launch: Amazon ElastiCache Launches Enhanced Redis Backup and Restore with Cluster Resizing
Most of us equate in-memory caching with improved performance and lower cost at scale when designing applications or building solutions. Now if there was only a service that would continually make it simpler to deploy and utilize in-memory cache in the cloud while increasing the ability to scale. Okay no more joking around, the cloud […]
S3 Storage Management Update – Analytics, Object Tagging, Inventory, and Metrics
Today I would like to tell you about four S3 features that will give you detailed insights into your storage and your access patterns. You can see what and how much you are storing, how it is being used, and you can make informed decisions about the use of S3 storage classes as a result. […]
Launch: Amazon GameLift Now Supports All C++ and C# Game Engines
Calling all Game Developers! GDC 2017 was a blast in San Francisco a couple of weeks ago, so there is no better time to be inspired and passionate about learning and building cool games. Therefore, I am excited to share that Amazon GameLift is now available for all C++ and C# game engines, including Amazon […]
Amazon WorkDocs Update – Commenting & Reviewing Enhancements and a New Activity Feed
As I have told you in the past, we like to drink our own Champagne at Amazon. Practically speaking, this means that we make use of our own services, tools, and applications as part of our jobs, and that we supply the development teams with feedback if we have an idea for an improvement or […]
Amazon Elasticsearch Service support for Elasticsearch 5.1
September 8, 2021: Amazon Elasticsearch Service has been renamed to Amazon OpenSearch Service. See details. The Amazon Elasticsearch Service is a fully managed service that provides easier deployment, operation, and scale for the Elasticsearch open-source search and analytics engine. We are excited to announce that Amazon Elasticsearch Service now supports Elasticsearch 5.1 and Kibana 5.1. […]
Streamline AMI Maintenance and Patching Using Amazon EC2 Systems Manager | Automation
Here to tell you about using Automation to streamline AMI maintenance and patching is Taylor Anderson, a Senior Product Manager with EC2. -Ana Last December at re:Invent, we launched Amazon EC2 Systems Manager, which helps you automatically collect software inventory, apply OS patches, create system images, and configure Windows and Linux operating systems. These […]
New – Instance Size Flexibility for EC2 Reserved Instances
Reserved Instances allow AWS customers to receive a significant discount on their EC2 usage (up to 75% when compared to On-Demand pricing), along with capacity reservation when the RIs are purchased for use in a specific Availability Zone (AZ). Late last year we made Reserved Instances more flexible with the launch of Regional RIs that […]