AWS News Blog
AWS Training & Certification Update – Free Digital Training + Certified Cloud Practitioner Exam
We recently made some updates to AWS Training and Certification to make it easier for you to build your cloud skills and to learn about many of the new services that we launched at AWS re:Invent. Free AWS Digital Training You can now find over 100 new digital training classes at aws.training, all with unlimited […]
Amazon Linux 2 – Modern, Stable, and Enterprise-Friendly
I’m getting ready to wrap up my work for the year, cleaning up my inbox and catching up on a few recent AWS launches that happened at and shortly after AWS re:Invent. Last week we launched Amazon Linux 2. This is modern version of Linux, designed to meet the security, stability, and productivity needs of […]
Now Open AWS EU (Paris) Region
September 8, 2021: Amazon Elasticsearch Service has been renamed to Amazon OpenSearch Service. See details. Today we are launching our 18th AWS Region, our fourth in Europe. Located in the Paris area, AWS customers can use this Region to better serve customers in and around France. The Details The new Europe (Paris) Region provides a […]
New – Amazon CloudWatch Agent with AWS Systems Manager Integration – Unified Metrics & Log Collection for Linux & Windows
In the past I’ve talked about several agents, deaemons, and scripts that you could use to collect system metrics and log files for your Windows and Linux instances and on-premise services and publish them to Amazon CloudWatch. The data collected by this somewhat disparate collection of tools gave you visibility into the status and behavior […]
Amazon EC2 Price Reduction in the Asia Pacific (Mumbai) Region
Whew – I am just getting back in to blogging after a quick recovery from AWS re:Invent! I’m happy to start things off with yet another AWS price reduction, this one for four instance families in the Asia Pacific (Mumbai) Region. Effective December 1, 2017 we are reducing prices for On-Demand and Reserved Instances as […]
Now Open – AWS China (Ningxia) Region
September 8, 2021: Amazon Elasticsearch Service has been renamed to Amazon OpenSearch Service. See details. Today we launched our 17th Region globally, and the second in China. The AWS China (Ningxia) Region, operated by Ningxia Western Cloud Data Technology Co. Ltd. (NWCD), is generally available now and provides customers another option to run applications and […]
re:Invent Recap – Announcements to Boost Enterprise Innovation with Windows
My colleague Sandy Carter delivered the Enterprise Innovation State of the Union last week at AWS re:Invent. She wrote the guest post below to recap the announcements that she made from the stage. — Jeff; “I want my company to innovate, but I am not convinced we can execute successfully.” Far too many times I […]
AWS Contributes to Milestone 1.0 Release and Adds Model Serving Capability for Apache MXNet
Post by Dr. Matt Wood Today AWS announced contributions to the milestone 1.0 release of the Apache MXNet deep learning engine including the introduction of a new model-serving capability for MXNet. The new capabilities in MXNet provide the following benefits to users: 1) MXNet is easier to use: The model server for MXNet is a […]