AWS IoT: New Integration and Security Features
The Internet of Things (AWS IoT) is flying high with new upgrades. First is an integration with Amazon Machine Learning, a service that lets developers create machine learning models without having to...
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Cloud Month in Review – April 2016
Amazon Web Services has continued to raise the bar for its services and every month there’s something new to see. Storage and DB AWS has made the most number of updates this month on its storage and...
View ArticleManaged Platform for AWS Elastic Beanstalk
AWS Elastic Beanstalk lets you upload, deploy and run code for web apps and services. AWS regularly provides updates for supported platforms, but you had to apply them manually. Now, AWS has announced...
View ArticleAmazon Cognito Adds User Pools
Amazon Cognito provides an easy way to include user authentication, profile management, and data synchronization in your application. AWS has taken Cognito a step further by including user pools as a...
View ArticleAmazon Kinesis Updates—Elasticsearch, Enhanced Metrics and Added Flexibility
Amazon Kinesis is a fully-managed system that lets you stream data into the cloud, highly useful for enterprises that need to stream data in real-time. Since AWS takes care of managing the...
View ArticleAmazon EBS: New HDD Options
Economies of scale allow AWS to not just bring down costs but to improve existing services by developing better technology. Case in point, AWS announced that Amazon EBS has launched two new low-cost...
View ArticleAWS Storage – Faster S3 Transfer and Larger Snowball
AWS has recently announced upgrades to AWS S3 and AWS Snowball that are designed to speed up data transfers: AWS S3 Transfer Acceleration AWS has made it easier to transfer data in and out of Simple...
View ArticleEnhanced Monitoring and Enforce SSL for AWS RDS
AWS has raised security for Amazon Relational Database (AWS RDS) by releasing two new features. Enhanced Monitoring for AWS RDS AWS has announced earlier that the enhanced monitoring feature will be...
View ArticleAmazon RDS Supports PostgreSQL 9.5 and Schema Conversion
With PostgreSQL being a popular database, AWS has decided on some new features to support it. Amazon RDS now supports version 9.5 of PostgreSQL, as well as versions 9.4.7 and 9.3.12. The following new...
View ArticleEC2 Run Command — Manage & Share Commands and More
EC2 Run Command is a simple way to manage many AWS EC2 instances in one go. AWS has updated the service to make it even better. Document Management and Sharing If you have any command documents which...
View ArticleNew AWS Application Discovery Service
Planning to adopt the AWS cloud but need some clarity on what applications to migrate? The AWS Application Discovery Service lets you do just that. This new service helps you study your environment and...
View ArticleAmazon EMR Updates to Apache HBase 1.2
Apache HBase 1.2 is now available under Amazon EMR. HBase is a big data store that can house billions of columns and rows. Its scalability and ease-of-use make it perfect for ad tech, web analytics,...
View ArticleLonger EBS and Storage Gateway Resource IDs
AWS has announced that from now on, you can choose to have longer resource IDs will be available EBS and Storage Gateway. You can select the new format through the AWS Management Console, the AWS...
View ArticleNew CloudFormation Changesets Available
Like a conductor to an orchestra, AWS CloudFormation lets you manage and update your AWS resources in the form of “stacks.” You can then update these stacks as needed for your workloads, making it...
View ArticleAWS Device Farm Supports Remote Access Interactive Testing
AWS Device Farm lets you test mobile apps on variety of real devices. Now, AWS has provided an additional feature that lets you interactively test apps remotely. From the AWS Management Console, you...
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New EC2 Instances – Introducing the X1
AWS EC2 instances are the best compute power solution on the market today, simply because their infrastructure keeps improving. Today, AWS is officially launching the X1 instance, which has the...
View ArticleGE Oil & Gas Saves Millions with AWS
GE Oil & Gas is a relatively new division of General Electric that came about from several acquisitions in the 80’s. Roughly 85% of offshore oil rigs in the world use their drilling systems. Given...
View ArticleAWS Accelerator for Citrix
Good news for those running Citrix XenApp, XenDesktop, or Netscale onsite and are interested in the AWS cloud. The brand new AWS Accelerator lets you design and perform a trial migration using the...
View ArticleAWS WorkSpaces Supports Tagging
AWS WorkSpaces provides an efficient, collaborative, and secure working environment. Aside from being fast and responsive as a regular desktop or laptop, it also protects your files from hardware...
View ArticleAWS Aurora Cross-Account Snapshot Sharing
AWS has added new features to its open-source database, AWS Aurora. You can now share snapshot backups with other AWS accounts or make them public. There are several ways sharing snapshots can be...
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