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Facial Rekognition Matures—Estimates Age Range
Facial Rekognition has been announced last December as part of AWS artificial intelligence services. Not only is it smart enough to detect faces and objects in an image, it can also search for and...
View ArticleAmazon Direct Connect Features Link Aggregation
Amazon Direct Connect, which provides a dedicated link to AWS services, now supports 1Gb and 10Gb Link Aggregation Groups. You can use these groups (LAGs) to link existing connections on the same AWS...
View ArticleAWS: New I3 Instances For I/O Heavy Workloads
AWS has just announced the release of I3 instances, designed specifically to support input-output intensive applications. There are six different sizes in all, open to 15 different AWS regions. With up...
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Amazon EBS Upgrades with Elastic Volumes
AWS has dedicated itself towards making Amazon Elastic Block Storage (Amazon EBS) even better suited for their clients’ needs. In the past, they have improved capacity and performance, and even...
View ArticleAWS DynamoDB Adds Time To Live Feature
AWS DynamoDB provides fast, flexible, and extremely low (millisecond) latency serverless databases, perfect for IoT or gaming servers. With it, one can create terabyte-sized tables that can handle...
View ArticleAWS Data Migration Service Reaches 20,000 Mark
The AWS Data Migration Service lets you move your critical data from on-site or cloud databases or data warehouses to Amazon databases and data warehouses. These include services such as Amazon Aurora,...
View ArticleAmazon EMR Instance Fleets Launched
AWS has announced a brand new feature: Amazon EMR instance fleets. This improvement allows you to create a list of up to 5 instance types with weighted capacities and spot bid prices. Amazon EMR can...
View ArticleTag Newly-Created EC2 Instances and EBS Volumes
Resource tagging has already been a thing for EC2 and EBS in the previous years. AWS has already raised available tags to up to 50, and even included the option to edit a tag and create resource...
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Cloud Month In Review – March 2017
Cloud Month is back with new AWS developments for the month of March. AWS: New I3 Instances For I/O Heavy Workloads AWS has just announced the release of I3 instances, designed specifically to...
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Amazon Redshift Data Compression Up 400%
Amazon Redshift service provides a petabyte-scale data warehouse that makes for rapid, cost-effective data analysis. It uses columnar compression to raise I/O performance and the storage capacity of...
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AWS Gives Host-based Routing Support for Load Balancers
AWS had previously introduced Application Load Balancers, which can be used to route HTTP and HTTPS traffic depending on the path element of the request’s URL. Now, AWS has expanded this feature by...
View ArticleAmazon Athena Now Queries Encrypted Data
Amazon Athena, AWS’s newest service launched in November 2016, is a serverless query service that lets you access structured and unstructured data sets in S3 using SQL. Amazon Athena’s Query Editor...
View ArticleAmazon Redshift Spectrum Launched
AWS has just introduced Amazon Redshift Spectrum, a service that lets users run complex queries on information stored in Amazon S3. While Amazon Redshift lets you build petabyte-sized warehouses for...
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AWS Reduces Price for M4 and Reserved Instances
AWS is all about economy of scale, and when their technology makes a great leap forward the result is cost reduction. AWS is happy to announce that it is lowering prices for reserved instances and M4...
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Cloud Month in Review – May 2017
Rounding out the month we have more developments in AWS. Tag Newly-Created EC2 Instances and EBS Volumes AWS has announced four new features for tagging EC2 Instances and EBS volumes: Tag on creation –...
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Amazon Chime Lets You Claim Domains
Amazon Chime is the service of choice for collaboration and communication within AWS. With it one can chat with as many colleagues across the world as they want. There’s more to it Amazon Chime,...
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Amazon EBS Adds Cost Allocation
Amazon EBS provides a great option that lets you create persistent, low-latency block storage for all your EC2 instances. It comes with the ability to create snapshot backups of your EBS volume....
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Amazon Lightsail and Cloud Directory Updates
AWS continues to improve its services, and has done so once again for Amazon Lightsail and Cloud Directory. Amazon Lightsail lets customers easily launch Virtual Private Servers in the AWS cloud. You...
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AWS Greengrass Now Available
If you need to collect and process data out in an area with a slow or unsteady internet connection, AWS Greengrass can be a godsend. AWS Greengrass allows you to program in AWS using even simple...
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Amazon WorkSpaces Managed Device Authentication
Amazon WorkSpaces is AWS’s cloud-based desktop service, letting you work and collaborate from anywhere in the world. This means you can bring your own device (BYOD) such as laptops, tablets, or mobile...
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