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AWS month in review: An AWS re:Invent recap of overlooked roll outs
- Associate Site Editor 31 Dec 2019 -
AWS month in review: Explore the CloudFormation CLI, Savings Plans
- Associate Site Editor 26 Nov 2019 -
AWS month in review: Amazon rolls out RDS on VMware, loses JEDI deal
- Associate Site Editor 31 Oct 2019
It's almost impossible to keep up with all the services and capabilities AWS trots out for its annual re:Invent conference. Catch up on Amazon cloud updates you missed with this AWS re:Invent recap.
This month, Amazon added the AWS CloudFormation CLI and registry, which should increase the scope of resources supported in CloudFormation. The cloud provider also added a Savings Plan pricing ...
This month, AWS expanded its hybrid cloud capabilities with RDS on VMware but lost out on the JEDI cloud contract. It also added new EC2 instances with larger network and memory capacity.
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AWS updates: Amazon QLDB hits, S3 expands, new instances arrive
- Associate Site Editor 30 Sep 2019 -
AWS month in review: AWS time series forecasting service is GA
- Associate Site Editor 30 Aug 2019 -
AWS month in review: Orlando drops AWS facial recognition program
- Associate Site Editor 31 Jul 2019 -
AWS month in review: Security Hub goes live at AWS security conference
- Associate Site Editor 28 Jun 2019 -
AWS month in review: Updated Lambda execution environment on its way
- Associate Site Editor 31 May 2019 -
AWS month in review: Enable snapshot automation for Redshift
- Associate Site Editor 30 Apr 2019 -
AWS month in review: More AWS deep learning capabilities
- Associate Site Editor 29 Mar 2019
This month AWS finally went live with Amazon QLDB. The AWS ledger database is another way for users to tailor data storage to their needs on the platform. AWS also introduced same-region S3 ...
In August, Amazon Forecast, an AWS time series forecasting service, and Lake Formation became available to all users. The services should improve users' machine learning and data lake capabilities ...
The city of Orlando's termination of its Amazon Rekognition pilot was a blow to the much criticized AWS facial recognition in law enforcement agenda. However, AWS did improve some bread and butter ...
AWS this month hosted its inaugural re:Inforce conference in Boston and used the setting to make AWS Security Hub and Control Tower generally available and to introduce a VPC network security ...
AWS is updating Lambda execution environments with the latest Amazon Linux OS. Start testing your functions now before the general AWS Lambda update occurs on July 16. AWS has also launched its ...
Boosted AWS snapshot automation aims to improve data backup in Amazon Redshift and Aurora Serverless. AWS also launched block storage for Snowball Edge and updated Amazon Elasticsearch.
AWS Deep Learning Containers and DeepRacer ramp up the cloud giant's machine learning orchestration and training. AWS also improves Redshift and Direct Connect.
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AWS month in review: More improvements for hybrid cloud
- Associate Site Editor 28 Feb 2019 -
AWS month in review: Cloud SLAs abound
- Senior Site Editor 31 Jan 2019 -
AWS month in review: Cloud networking services abound
- Senior Site Editor 21 Dec 2018 -
AWS' container roadmap reveal helps customers plan ahead
17 Dec 2018 -
AWS month in review: Expanded EC2 options and a blastoff into space
- TechTarget 30 Nov 2018 -
Revisit the sights and sounds from AWS re:Invent 2018
- Site Editor 30 Nov 2018 -
AWS plans to democratize access to AI and ML
30 Nov 2018 -
AWS CEO Andy Jassy talks AI, on-premises moves
- Senior Site Editor 29 Nov 2018 -
AWS month in review: Amazon Lightsail, Lambda updates
- Senior Site Editor 31 Oct 2018 -
AWS month in review: More for hybrid cloud architectures
- Senior Site Editor 28 Sep 2018 -
AWS balances GA of Aurora Serverless with new instance types
- Senior Site Editor 30 Aug 2018 -
AWS cloud features offer network, performance improvements
- Site Editor 03 Aug 2018 -
VMware-AWS service bubbles into new markets
- Site Editor 29 Jun 2018 -
Bare-metal instances augment AWS' IaaS options
- Site Editor 31 May 2018 -
AWS Lambda features rev Node.js support
- Site Editor 30 Apr 2018 -
Three laws of IoT connectivity govern AWS' strategy
- Site Editor 17 Apr 2018 -
AWS Lambda serverless platform holds center stage for devs
- Features Writer 12 Apr 2018 -
Extended duration for IAM roles appeases some, alarms others
- Site Editor 30 Mar 2018 -
Serverless apps, encryption top AWS features in February
- Site Editor 01 Mar 2018 -
Dropbox is likely an outlier with its successful cloud data migration off AWS
- Senior Site Editor 28 Feb 2018 -
EC2 features aim at network, performance improvements
- Site Editor 30 Jan 2018 -
AWS using KVM and Xen, but users may not feel any impact
- Senior Site Editor 21 Nov 2017 -
AWS GovCloud lags behind private sector, but that's changing
- Senior Site Editor 23 Jun 2017
Amazon polished several services in February to simplify management of AWS hybrid cloud architecture. It also added five new EC2 bare metal instances and upgraded Amazon GuardDuty. Find out how AWS ...
AWS added 11 cloud SLAs to its platform in January as it continues to lure enterprises to higher-level services. The contracts should make the services more palatable to organizations that require ...
AWS' cloud networking services got a big upgrade in December, with a second VPN offering, expanded VPC connections and WebSocket support for API Gateway.
Customers will welcome the additional transparency of an unexpected reveal of AWS' container strategy, but it's unclear whether public roadmaps will become a broader part of AWS' culture.
IT and development teams who try to keep pace with AWS' ever-expanding portfolio have a lot to catch up on this month. First, to see the most significant news that came out of AWS re:Invent 2018 ...
AWS re:Invent 2018 attendees took to Twitter to voice their pleasures and pains from the show in Vegas, and elaborate on the myriad of Amazon tools and services unveiled at the conference.
AWS' goal with AI and ML is to give everybody the same opportunity to bring machine learning to their applications – not just the "richest" and most powerful organizations, but any "builder" of ...
AWS CEO Andy Jassy discusses how the company enforces ethical use of AI on its platform, its contributions to open source projects and how the on-premises Outposts will work.
Developers can access managed databases through Amazon Lightsail, run longer function executions and rely on a Lambda SLA. These were some of the notable updates to AWS in October -- a month that ...
September was a low-key month for AWS, even though it rolled out more than 70 updates to its platform. AWS advancements in September were a lot of the standard fodder: services expanded to ...
AWS updates in August include general availability of Amazon Aurora Serverless for MySQL, more instance types, continued progress into serverless territory, and deeper ties to VMware on premises ...
As is often the case, AWS' yearly Summit in New York provided the scene for some additional features and functionality. While AWS cloud features are unveiled regularly, the free-to-attend ...
With the VMware-AWS partnership, some customers were either reluctant or unable to use earlier versions of the service. Now, with the passage of time and corresponding product maturity, customers ...
Infrastructure was AWS' focus in May, as the cloud provider made good on several of its promises with features that provide more diverse compute options -- including some that directly challenge ...
Breathe easier, serverless application developers -- your lengthy wait is over, with AWS Lambda's added support for a newer Node.js runtime After a year's wait, AWS developers can now use Node.js ...
The growth and proliferation of connected sensors has drawn AWS headlong into the IoT market. And a recent keynote speech provided clues as to how the cloud provider shapes its tools to manage ...
Enterprises are adopting AWS Lambda faster than competing serverless platforms from Google, Microsoft, IBM and others, citing ease of use to replace manual with automated functions and the broad ...
Cloud security best practices and IT convenience don't always align, but as standards such as GDPR take hold and new vulnerabilities constantly emerge, maybe it's ok to loosen the reins from time ...
Many cloud developers espouse the benefits of serverless computing, but others find the approach unwieldy or difficult to manage. The AWS Serverless Application Repository, one of several AWS ...
Dropbox's move off AWS was a windfall for the company, but most traditional corporations shouldn't bank on similar success. The file hosting company saved nearly $75 million in infrastructure costs ...
AWS users have a green light to rev the full bandwidth potential of a particular instance. AWS removed its 5 Gbps limit and improved performance for network connections to and from Elastic Compute ...
AWS has added a new hypervisor behind the scenes, but customers likely won't see much of a direct impact on their cloud environment. Amazon this month began selling its C5 instance nearly a year ...
In the fast-paced world of public cloud, if AWS is the hare, AWS GovCloud is the tortoise. GovCloud launched in 2011 to meet stricter regulatory requirements for federal, state and local ...