AWS News Blog
New – Next Generation (R4) Memory-Optimized EC2 Instances
In-memory processing is a huge deal. With workloads growing larger by the day and CPUs gaining power with every successive generation, the ability to fit entire datasets into memory is becoming a prerequisite for high-quality Business Intelligence, analytics, data mining, and other real-time workloads that are sensitive to latency. Distributed caching and batch processing workloads […]
New T2.Xlarge and T2.2Xlarge Instances
AWS customers love the cost-effective, burst-based model that they get when they use T2 instances. These customers use T2 instances to run general purpose workloads such as web servers, development environments, continuous integration servers, test environments, and small databases. These instances provide a generous amount of baseline performance and the ability to automatically and transparently […]
AWS Global Partner Summit – Report from re:Invent 2016
My colleague Dorothy Copeland is the General Manager for the AWS Global Partner Program. She attended the AWS Global Partner Summit here at AWS re:Invent today and sent a full report, published here as a guest post. — Jeff; We just wrapped an eventful AWS Global Partner Summit at re:Invent. This full-day event is exclusive […]
Introducing the Partner Solutions Finder: Find Expert APN Partners to Meet Your Needs on AWS
My colleague Kate Miller is the voice behind the AWS Partner Network Blog. Today she shared a guest post to spread the word about a new tool that helps our customers to find partner-developer solutions that are a great match for their business needs. — Jeff; We often find that our customers are looking for […]
Use Amazon Aurora for Dev & Test Workloads with new T2.Medium DB Instance Class
Amazon Aurora already allows you to make your choice of five DB instance classes ranging from the db.r3.large (2 vCPUs and 15 GiB of RAM) up to the db.r3.8xlarge (32 vCPUs and 244 GiB of RAM). These instances support a very wide range of production-scale applications and use cases. Today we giving you a sixth […]
Well-Architected, Working Backward to Play it Forward
My colleague Philip “Fitz” Fitzsimons wrote the guest post below to bring you up to date on the popular Well-Architected Framework. — Jeff; Working backward is a fundamental part of our innovation process. We start with the customer and what they want, and let that define and guide our efforts. Having released the Well-Architected Framework […]
Build Enterprise Mobile Apps with AWS Mobile Hub – New User Management and SaaS Integration
AWS Mobile Hub allows you to build, test, and monitor mobile applications that make use of one or more AWS services. You can use its single, integrated console to add user authentication, data storage, backend logic, push notifications, content delivery, and analytics features to your apps, with plenty of opportunities for customization. We are seeing […]
Application Performance Percentiles and Request Tracing for AWS Application Load Balancer
In today’s guest post, my colleague Colm MacCárthaigh discusses the new CloudWatch Percentile Statistics and the implications and benefits load balancing. He also introduces a new request tracing feature that will make it easier for you to track the progress of individual requests as they arrive at a load balancer and make their way to […]