AWS News Blog
Elastic MapReduce Release 4.0.0 With Updated Applications Now Available
Amazon EMR is a managed cluster platform that simplifies running big data frameworks, such as Apache Hadoop and Apache Spark, on AWS to process and analyze vast amounts of data. By using these frameworks and related open-source projects, such as Apache Hive and Apache Pig, you can process data for analytics purposes and business intelligence […]
Joining a Linux Instance to a Simple AD (AWS Directory Service)
If you are tasked with providing and managing user logins to a fleet of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances running Linux, I have some good news for you! You can now join these instances to an AWS Directory Service Simple AD directory and manage credentials for your user logins using standard Active Directory […]
New Amazon CloudWatch Action – Reboot EC2 Instance
Amazon CloudWatch monitors your cloud resources and applications, including Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances. You can track cloud, system, and application metrics, see them in graphical form, and arrange to be notified (via a CloudWatch alarm) if they cross a threshold value that you specify. You can also stop, terminate, or recover an […]
AWS Week in Review – July 13, 2015
Let’s take a quick look at what happened in AWS-land last week: Monday, July 13 We announced that Amazon Redshift now Supports AVRO Ingestion. We announced Amazon Wind Farm US East. An article in Forbes talked about Amazon’s Cloud Ecosystem: Where The Cloud Action Is. A post on the Cloudability Blog reviewed the AWS Summit […]
EC2 Container Service – Latest Features, Customer Successes, and More…
We launched Amazon EC2 Container Service last fall at AWS re:Invent and made it available in production form this past April. We’ve made a lot of enhancements since then and I thought it would be a good time to recap them for you. AWS customers are already making good use of EC2 Container Service and […]
DynamoDB Update – Triggers (Streams + Lambda) + Cross-Region Replication App
I’ve got some really good news for Amazon DynamoDB users! First, the DynamoDB Streams feature is now available and you can start using it today. As you will see from this blog post, it is now very easy to use AWS Lambda to process the change records from a stream. Second, we are making it […]
New – CloudWatch Metrics for Amazon WorkSpaces
AWS customers are deploying Amazon WorkSpaces at scale in medium and large organizations. For example, health care company Johnson & Johnson is using WorkSpaces to realize the long-promised security and efficacy benefits of virtual desktops, in a world populated by a diverse workforce that would like to use their own computing devices if possible (also […]
AWS Week in Review – July 6, 2015
Let’s take a quick look at what happened in AWS-land last week: Monday, July 6 The AWS PHP Developer Blog showed you how to Reduce Composer Issues on Elastic Beanstalk. The AWS Security Blog showed you How to Connect Your On-Premises Active Directory to AWS Using AD Connector. The CloudBees Blog talked about Continuous Delivery […]