You can now specify a desired completion duration (15 minutes to 48 hours) when you copy an Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) snapshot within or between AWS Regions and/or accounts. This will help you to meet time-based compliance and business requirements for critical workloads. For example: Testing – Distribute fresh data on a timely …

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Customers use Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) to run every type of workload imaginable, including web hosting, big data processing, high-performance computing (HPC), virtual desktops, live event streaming, and databases. Some of these workloads are so critical that customers asked for the ability to reserve capacity for them. To help customers flexibly reserve capacity, …

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Last week, I saw an astonishing 197 new service launches from AWS. This means we are getting closer to AWS re:Invent 2024! Our News Blog team is also finalizing blog posts for re:Invent to introduce some awesome launches from service teams for your reading pleasure. The most interesting news is that we’re expanding our strategic …

AWS Weekly Roundup: 197 new launches, AI training partnership with Anthropic, and join AWS re:Invent virtually (Nov 25, 2024) Read More »

Today, I’m excited to introduce a new and improved version of AWS Systems Manager that brings a highly requested cross-account, and cross-Region experience for managing nodes at scale. The new System Manager experience provides centralized visibility of all your managed nodes which include various infrastructure types, such as Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instances, containers, …

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Gartner published the second Magic Quadrant for Distributed Hybrid Infrastructure (DHI), which includes Amazon Web Services (AWS) as a leader again. AWS has three products in this DHI portfolio: AWS Outposts, AWS Snowball, and AWS Local Zones. In the accompanying Gartner’s Critical Capabilities for DHI, AWS is ranked number one in four out of six …

AWS named as a leader again in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Distributed Hybrid Infrastructure Read More »

Introduced 10 years ago, Amazon Cognito is a service that helps you implement customer identity and access management (CIAM) in your web and mobile applications. You can use Amazon Cognito for various use cases, from providing your customers to quickly add sign-in and sign-up experiences to your applications and authorization to securing machine-to-machine authentication and …

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Today, I’m excited to announce new updates to AWS CloudTrail Lake, which is a managed data lake you can use to aggregate, immutably store, and query events recorded by AWS CloudTrail for auditing, security investigation, and operational troubleshooting. The new updates in CloudTrail Lake are: Enhanced filtering options for CloudTrail events Cross-account sharing of event …

Introducing new capabilities to AWS CloudTrail Lake to enhance your cloud visibility and investigations Read More »

In November 2023, we announced Amazon CloudWatch Application Signals, an AWS built-in application performance monitoring (APM) solution, to solve the complexity associated with monitoring performance of distributed systems for applications hosted on Amazon EKS, Amazon ECS, and Amazon EC2. Application Signals automatically correlates telemetry across metrics, traces, and logs, to speed up troubleshooting and reduce …

Track performance of serverless applications built using AWS Lambda with Application Signals Read More »