Amazon DynamoDB Accelerator (DAX) Now Available
Previously introduced earlier this year, Amazon DynamoDB Accelerator (DAX) is a fully-managed caching service for DynamoDB tables. DAX returns cached messages in mere millisecond, letting you speed up...
View ArticleAmazon WorkSpaces Introduces Power Bundle
AWS doubles down on Amazon WorkSpaces with their new Power Bundle. To answer customer demands for more resources, AWS is giving users the option to have workstation-class machine: 4 vCPUs 16 Gig of...
View ArticleCloud Month in Review – July 2017
This month, AWS improves old services and introduces brand new ones too. Amazon Lightsail and Cloud Directory Updates Amazon Lightsail lets customers easily launch Virtual Private Servers in the AWS...
View ArticleEC2 Auto Scaling Uses Target Tracking Policies
AWS has previously released an Application Auto Scaling model that automates capacity management for DynamoDB tables. One feature of this model is target tracking. Each Auto Scaling policy with target...
View ArticleAmazon Kinesis Streams Adds Server-side Encryption
Amazon Kinesis Streams is a service that lets you build applications that read, aggregate, analyze, and store data from streaming data sources. This may be social media devices, market data feeds, web...
View ArticleAmazon CloudWatch High-Resolution Custom Metrics
Launched in 2009, Amazon CloudWatch has proven an integral service for monitoring one’s use of AWS resources and applications. Its own custom metrics functionality lets you create your own business and...
View ArticleEC2 Systems Manager Now Syncs with S3
The Amazon EC2 Systems Manager is a service that allows users to create system images, gather information on your software, manage Windows and Linux operating systems, and install patches. This means...
View ArticleCloud Month In Review – July 2016
This July, AWS shares some of its best updates this month in terms of infrastructure, software, and database improvements. IaaS To Improve AWS EC2 networking performance, AWS has launched the Elastic...
View ArticleCloud Month In Review – July 2017
AWS kicks off July with new features for EC2 EC2 Auto Scaling Uses Target Tracking Policies AWS has previously released an Application Auto Scaling model that automates capacity management for DynamoDB...
View ArticleAmazon Lex and Amazon Connect Integration
Amazon Connect allows users to provide a cost-effective cloud contact customer service. Meanwhile, Amazon Lex is a service that lets you build conversational interfaces through voice and text. You may...
View ArticleAWS Launches Amazon Macie
AWS has just announced in the recent NY Summit the launch of Amazon Macie—a brand new service designed to use machine learning to help data security. Macie classifies the data you store in Amazon S3....
View ArticleAmazon SES Releases Dedicated IP Pools
Formerly an email platform for communicating with its clients, Amazon Simple Email Services (AmazonSES) now serves customers, providing a flexible, scalable, and cost-effective cloud email server that...
View ArticleAWS Cost Explorer Reports Enhancements
Launched in 2014, AWS Cost Explorer provides users the reports and tools to analyze and comprehend their expenses when using the AWS Cloud. This week, AWS has released a major enhancement to AWS Cost...
View ArticleCloud Month in Review–August 2017
August is filled with enhancements to AWS’s current line of services. Check out our updates below: EC2 Systems Manager Now Syncs with S3 AWS announced a new feature for EC2 Systems Manager: Resource...
View ArticleNew EC2 Instances with 4TB Memory
AWS is proud to announce that the new x1e.32xlarge EC2 instances are available now in four different regions. These instances sport 4 TB of DD4 memory and therefore can run SAP HANA and other kinds...
View ArticleEC2 Spot Instances Allow Stop and Resume
AWS made EC2 Spot Instances more useful and flexible by adding the ability to stop rather than terminate a spot instance when its capacity is no longer available or if it is below your bid price. It...
View ArticleCloud Month In Review—September 2017
This month of September, AWS comes back with some new enhancements to IaasS, particularly EC2. AWS Launches Network Load Balancer AWS has launched the new Network Load Balancer. Designed to handle...
View ArticleAWS Releases Amazon Linux AMI 2017.09
Need a stable, powerful environment to run your Linux applications? AWS EC2 can provide that with the latest version of the Linux AMI, version 2017.09. Currently released to all AWS regions, this...
View ArticleAmazon EC2 now has Microsoft SQL Server 2017
AWS is proud to announce that it has launched Microsoft SQL Server 2017. You may now launch Amazon EC2 instances on Windows Server 2016 with four different editions of MS SQL Server 2017: Web, Express,...
View ArticleGluon: High-Performance Machine Learning Interface
AWS and Microsoft have just announced the launch of Gluon, an open-source API for deep learning developers to rapidly and efficiently create high-performance machine learning models. Gluon’s API...
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