AWS GameLift Now in CloudFormation
AWS GameLift is a new service for deploying, operating and scaling multi-player games. Built on the AWS platform, it cuts down back-end effort from hours into just minutes. AWS has just made an...
View ArticleAWS C++ SDK Preview
AWS is happy to announce that its AWS C++ SDK has been released for dev preview. The latest version boasts of the following features: Comprehensive AWS service coverage Better CMake support Improved...
View ArticleAWS Storage Gateway Upgrades Capacity
AWS is happy to announce that it has increased its capacity for its two services: AWS Storage Gateway virtual and gateway-stored volumes. Gateway VTL’s max capacity for virtual tapes in a single VTL is...
View ArticleAWS Encryption SDK now Available
The AWS Cryptography team proudly announced that they have developed an Encryption SDK. This SDK is designed to allow developers to create easier encryption for their applications. When developers use...
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AirBnB Reinvents Hospitality with AWS
With over 2 million registered homeowners across 190 countries, AirBnB has changed the course of the hospitality industry. To date, over 80 million guests have stayed in an AirBnB home, and the...
View ArticleEnhanced Monitoring for RDS using Datadog
In line with the recent AWS news on the enhanced monitoring feature for Amazon Relational Database, AWS is recommending a third-party service to help you arrange and study your data. Introducing...
View ArticleElastiCache for Redis Gains Upgrades
AWS ElastiCache, a service that simplifies the use and deployment of an in-memory cloud database, uses both Redis and Memcached engines. Now, AWS is proud to announce an update: unlike before, you can...
View ArticleDatabase Migration Service for AWS
AWS has opened a brand new database migration service, which will allow you to transfer data from an on-premise SQL, MySQL, Oracle, MariaDB or PostGreSQL database to AWS. You will have practically no...
View ArticleRDS SLA Now Covers MariaDB
Given the popularity and wide use of the open source MariaDB database in Amazon RDS, AWS has chosen to take things a step further. AWS has announced that it is extending the RDS SLA to cover MariaDB....
View ArticleAmazon Aurora Gets Added Failover Control
If you need a reliable relational database that’s compatible with MySQL, look no further than Amazon Aurora. This database engine combines the best of two worlds: the speed and availability of a...
View ArticleSpot Fleet Metrics Available for CloudWatch
CloudWatch now supports metrics for EC2 Spot fleets, making it easier to manage, monitor and scale your fleets. A single Spot fleet can be composed of one or thousands of EC2 instances that turn...
View ArticleRun AWS Data Pipeline on Demand
AWS Data Pipeline is a reliable service that lets data flow from one AWS service to another, whether to a compute or storage service. So you can take data from storage, efficiently transform and...
View ArticleAmazon Route 53: New Health Check Enhancements
AWS has just announced three new features to enhance monitoring in Amazon Route 53. Metric Based Health Checks Now you can do a DNS failover depending on any metric from CloudWatch. When you create a...
View ArticleAWS Lambda Now Supports Node.js 4.3.2
AWS Lambda lets you run code in response to certain events, all without having to deal with the backend of things. Simply upload your code and let the Lambda server handle the rest. Formerly, you could...
View ArticleAWS Trusted Advisor Adds New Checks
AWS Trusted Advisor, like its name implies, provides you with good advice in the following qualities: Cost Optimization Security Fault Tolerance Performance Improvement Now AWS has added even more...
View ArticleAWS Assists with Cancer Treatment Research
Cancer treatment and research require advanced tech in order to progress. Genomics, which is the study of human DNA, in particular requires a huge amount of computing power to analyze existing data. I...
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AWS Cloud Helps Explore Higgs Boson Data
The AWS Cloud has come a long way not just in helping to expand business and medicine, but scientific research as well. The 2012 discovery of the Higgs Boson, also know as the God Particle, has become...
View ArticleAWS Directory Service: Simplified Trust Configuration
AWS has just made it simpler to create trust relationships between AWS Directory Service for MS Active Directory and your in-house MS Active Directory domains. Trust relationships require conditional...
View ArticleAWS Kinesis Agent Does Data Pre-processing
If you need an easy means of sending data to Amazon Kinesis Streams or Amazon Firehose, look no further than the AWS Kinesis Agent. This application is capable of monitoring fields for new data, then...
View ArticleElastic Beanstalk Deployment and Linux AMI Updates
AWS kicks off April with new deployment policies for AWS Elastic Beanstalk and updates to Linux AMI. New Deployment Policies You can now select between two additional deployment policies: rolling with...
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