AWS Elastic Transcoder Supports MPEG-DASH
Need a way to convert media files from one format to another? Check out the Amazon Elastic Transcoder. To use the Transcoder, you make a pipeline to two S3 buckets for input and output, then generate...
View ArticleAmazon RedShift Performance Update
AWS is pleased to announce that its fully-managed data warehouse service, Amazon Redshift, has gotten a great upgrade: you can now do petabytes-scale data analysis at a much higher speed and greater...
View ArticleEC2 Spot Instances Support Semi-Autonomous Driving
The future is here…or semi-here, with EC2 Spot instances in the driver’s seat. Mapbox is the first lane navigation map by using a network of mobile devices, cars, and other devices to work as sensors....
View ArticleAmazon EMR 4.7.0 Adds Apache Tez and Phoenix
Amazon EMR (Elastic MapReduce) is a great way to efficiently analyze petabytes of data. Now AWS has made it even better by adding support for Apache Tez and Apache Phoenix, and some updates to...
View ArticleAmazon Aurora Partners with Zynga Games
As a popular online game company, Zynga requires a massive amount of database technology. Despite pre-existing technologies like MySQL and Memcached, it can be a challenge running them over a large...
View ArticleAmazon WorkSpaces Given Bigger Root Volumes
Amazon WorkSpaces lets users work and collaborate on the cloud. You get a full-managed and secure virtual desktop that lets you work from home or abroad, and provides users with access to documents,...
View ArticleAWS Develops Elastic Network Adapter
In an effort to improve EC2 networking performance, AWS has launched the Elastic Network Adapter. Its goal is to provide higher throughput using more bandwidth, while providing higher concurrency and...
View ArticleAmazon Elastic File System Available
AWS is proud to announce that their new Elastic File System is available now in three regions. EFS was designed to give shared low latency access to a file system using multiple EC2 instances. It is...
View ArticleAmazon EBS Supports Cross-Account Snapshot Copying
Amazon EBS has previously given users the ability to encrypt snapshots with AWS Key Management System (KMS). It also allowed users to copy snapshots with other AWS accounts so they may use them to make...
View ArticleEC2 Run Command: Hybrid & Cross-Cloud Management
EC2 Run Command, which was launched last year, made it simple for IT professionals to manage large numbers of EC2 instances on Windows or Linux. As developers and system admins have found it to be...
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AWS Helps with Neutrino Research
AWS has once again aided scientific research by providing infrastructure for NOvA, the U.S. large-scale experiment for discovering quantum-level particles. NOvA focuses on unstable particles called...
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AWS IoT Launches Asia-Pacific Region and New SDKs
AWS IoT is a service that lets you connect hardware devices and applications to the cloud and with other devices. This way, you can send and receive message from billions of devices and take action on...
View ArticleAmazon Inspector: Automated Notifications
Amazon Inspector, AWS’s security vulnerability assessment service, was a hit with clients since its launch last year. To make it easier to monitor vulnerability fixes, AWS has shared a way to generate...
View ArticleAmazon ECS Supports IAM Roles for Tasks
The Amazon EC2 Container Service (Amazon ECS) allows users to easily manage and run Docker containers on Amazon EC2 instance clusters. As of today, you may now specify IAM roles for ECS tasks. Formerly...
View ArticleAmazon Aurora: MySQL Backup-based Cluster Creation
AWS has announced an important new feature in Amazon Aurora for MySQL users. If you already have a MySQL database, you can make a snapshot, upload it to Amazon S3, and create an Amazon Aurora cluster....
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Gamestop Engages in the AWS Cloud
By Stephan Mosel c/o flickr.com With over 7,000 stores in 14 countries, Gamestop has millions of customers worldwide, servicing 46 million with their loyalty program alone. With that number of...
View ArticleCloud Month In Review — June 2016
This June we see Amazon providing even more improvements, this time with existing database technology: First off, Amazon Elastic Map Reduce 4.7.0 now includes support for Apache Tez and Phoenix. Faster...
View ArticleMonitor EC2 Run Command Execution via SNS
EC2 Run Command has proven itself extremely useful for running system administration tasks over large numbers of EC2 instances. You can easily create users and groups, scan for and install Windows...
View ArticleAmazon RDS for SQL—Native Backup Restore to S3
Amazon RDS (Relational Database Service) is a managed database service that automates most tasks dealing with databases. This includes managing, configuring, and scaling a relational database. As of...
View ArticleAmazon Cognito User Pools Available Now
Amazon Cognito pools allow you to provide user sign-up and sign-in to mobile and web applications. You can manage user pools by choosing which fields each account should contain (e.g. name, address,...
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