CloudFormation Drift Detection

supports you in your efforts to implement Infrastructure as Code (IaC). You can use a template to define the desired AWS resource configuration, and then use it to launch a CloudFormation stack. The stack contains the set of resources defined in the template, configured as specif … | Continue reading


@aws.amazon.com | 6 years ago

AWS Amplify simplifies development for iOS and Android developers

Today, we’re releasing an enhanced mobile client in the AWS Mobile SDKs for iOS and Android, which are part of the Amplify Framework. This client is designed to help native developers perform common authentication workflows with a simple, declarative programming model. The Amplif … | Continue reading


@aws.amazon.com | 6 years ago

In the Works – AWS Region in Milan, Italy

Late last month I announced that we are working on an AWS Region in South Africa. Today I would like to let you know that we are also building an AWS Region in Italy and plan to open it up in early 2020. Milan in 2020 The upcoming Region will have three Availability Zones and […] | Continue reading


@aws.amazon.com | 6 years ago

A Second AWS GovCloud (US) Region Is Now Open

Last year I told you that we were working on , an eastern US companion to the existing AWS GovCloud (US-West) Region that we launched in 2011. The new region is now open and ready to serve the needs of federal, state, and local government agencies, the IT contractors that serve t … | Continue reading


@aws.amazon.com | 6 years ago

Implementing Serverless Video Subtitles

This post is courtesy of Maxime Thomas, DevOps Partner Solutions Architect – AWS This story begins when I joined AWS at the beginning of the year. I had a hard time during my ramp-up period trying to handle the amount of information coming from all directions. Technical training, … | Continue reading


@aws.amazon.com | 6 years ago

AWS Object2Vec: Deep Learning for objects such as customers, products, sentences

In this blog post, we’re introducing the Amazon SageMaker Object2Vec algorithm, a new highly customizable multi-purpose algorithm that can learn low dimensional dense embeddings of high dimensional objects. Embeddings are an important feature engineering technique in machine lear … | Continue reading


@aws.amazon.com | 6 years ago

Understanding the Data Science Life Cycle

Companies struggling with data science don’t understand the data science life cycle. As a result, they fall into the trap of the model myth. This is the mistake of thinking that because data scientists work in code, the same processes that works for building software will work fo … | Continue reading


@aws.amazon.com | 6 years ago

Migrating Oracle Autonomous Transactions to PostgreSQL

Migrating and operating a database includes layers of complexity and thorough planning. Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL and Amazon Aurora with PostgreSQL compatibility can help you manage a variety of use cases. While migrating from Oracle to PostgreSQL, it’s very common to come across … | Continue reading


@aws.amazon.com | 6 years ago

AMD-Powered EC2 Instances

From the start, AWS has focused on choice and economy. Driven by a never-ending torrent of customer requests that power our well-known Virtuous Cycle, I think we have delivered on both over the years: Choice – AWS gives you choices in a wide range of dimensions including location … | Continue reading


@aws.amazon.com | 6 years ago

Amazon API Gateway Launches the Serverless Developer Portal

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@aws.amazon.com | 6 years ago

OpenJDK 8 will be supported till 2023 on amazon Linux 2

In light of Oracle’s recent announcement indicating an end to free long-term support for OpenJDK after January 2019, we re-affirm that the OpenJDK 8 and OpenJDK 11 Java runtimes in Amazon Linux 2 will continue to receive free long-term support from Amazon until at least June 30, … | Continue reading


@aws.amazon.com | 6 years ago

AWS Price List API Update – New Query and Metadata Functions – AWS News Blog

The original AWS Price List API, as described in New – AWS Price List API, gave you access to prices in JSON and CSV form by way of structured URLs. While this worked well for some types of cost management tools, the size and complexity of the files made them difficult to downloa … | Continue reading


@aws.amazon.com | 6 years ago

Disabling Intel Hyper-Threading Technology on Amazon Linux

Brian Beach, Solutions Architect Customers running high performance computing (HPC) workloads on Amazon Linux occasionally ask to disable the Intel Hyper-Threading Technology (HT Technology) that is enabled by default. In the pre-cloud world, this was usually performed by modifyi … | Continue reading


@aws.amazon.com | 6 years ago

Amazon EC2 Now Offers On-Demand Capacity Reservations

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@aws.amazon.com | 6 years ago

Brief Narrative of Enterprise IT Transformation Anti-Patterns

Our Enterprise Strategy team meets with many hundreds of enterprise customers every year. We are able to see patterns in their digital transformations—ways of practicing and thinking about IT that work, and ways that don’t. In this post I will discuss some of the anti-patterns we … | Continue reading


@aws.amazon.com | 6 years ago

AWS Serverless Application Model (SAM) Command Line Interface

Decades ago, I wrote page after page of code in 6502 assembly language. After assembling and linking the code, I would load it into memory, set breakpoints at strategic locations, and step through to make sure that everything worked as intended. These days, I no longer have the o … | Continue reading


@aws.amazon.com | 6 years ago

New AWS EC2 / EBS Pricing Calculator

The blog post that we published over a decade ago to launch the Simple Monthly Calculator still shows up on our internal top-10 lists from time to time! Since that post was published, we have extended, redesigned, and even rebuilt the calculator a time or two. New Calculator Star … | Continue reading


@aws.amazon.com | 6 years ago

Amazon RDS now supports MySQL 8.0

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@aws.amazon.com | 6 years ago

How AWS SideTrail verifies key AWS cryptography code

We know you want to spend your time learning valuable new skills, building innovative software, and scaling up applications — not worrying about managing infrastructure. That’s why we’re always looking for ways to help you automate the management of AWS services, particularly whe … | Continue reading


@aws.amazon.com | 6 years ago

AWS announced managed databases for Lightsail

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@aws.amazon.com | 6 years ago

Use AWS DeepLens to give Alexa the power to detect objects via Alexa skills

People are using Alexa for all types of activities in their homes, such as checking their bank balances, ordering pizza, or simply listening to their music from their favorite artists. For the most part, the primary interaction with the Echo has been your voice. In this blog post … | Continue reading


@aws.amazon.com | 6 years ago

AWS Lambda announces service level agreement

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@aws.amazon.com | 6 years ago

Managed Databases for Amazon Lightsail

makes it easy for you to get started with AWS. You choose the operating system (and optional application) that you want to run, pick an instance plan, and create an instance, all in a matter of minutes. offers low, predictable pricing, with instance plans that include compute pow … | Continue reading


@aws.amazon.com | 6 years ago

AWS Lambda Console Now Enables You to Manage and Monitor Serverless Applications

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@aws.amazon.com | 6 years ago

Amazon EKS Enables Support for Kubernetes Dynamic Admission Controllers

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@aws.amazon.com | 6 years ago

AWS Lambda enables functions that can run up to 15 minutes

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@aws.amazon.com | 6 years ago

AWS Service Operator for Kubernetes Now Available

Have you ever tried to integrate Amazon DynamoDB with an application running in Kubernetes? How about deploying an S3 Bucket for your application to use? If you have, you will know this usually requires you to use some tool such as AWS CloudFormation or Hashicorp Terraform. Then … | Continue reading


@aws.amazon.com | 6 years ago

Amazon SageMaker NTM supports auxiliary vocabulary channel, etc.

In this blog post, we introduce three new features of the Amazon SageMaker Neural Topic Model (NTM) that are designed to help improve user productivity, enhance topic evaluation capability, and speed up model training. In addition to these new features, by optimizing sparse opera … | Continue reading


@aws.amazon.com | 6 years ago

Setting the Record Straight on Bloomberg BusinessWeek’s Erroneous Article

Today, Bloomberg BusinessWeek published a story claiming that AWS was aware of modified hardware or malicious chips in SuperMicro motherboards in Elemental Media’s hardware at the time Amazon acquired Elemental in 2015, and that Amazon was aware of modified hardware or chips in A … | Continue reading


@aws.amazon.com | 6 years ago

Setting the Record Straight on Bloomberg BusinessWeek’s Erroneous Article

Today, Bloomberg BusinessWeek published a story claiming that AWS was aware of modified hardware or malicious chips in SuperMicro motherboards in Elemental Media’s hardware at the time Amazon acquired Elemental in 2015, and that Amazon was aware of modified hardware or chips in A … | Continue reading


@aws.amazon.com | 6 years ago

Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL Now Supports IAM Authentication

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@aws.amazon.com | 6 years ago

AWS Amplify Announces Vue.js Support for Building Cloud-Powered Web Applications

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@aws.amazon.com | 6 years ago

EC2 Instances with 6, 9, and 12 TB of Memory

The Altair 8800 computer that I built in 1977 had just 4 kilobytes of memory. Today I was able to use an EC2 instance with 12 terabytes (12 tebibytes to be exact) of memory, almost 4 billion times as much! The new Amazon EC2 High Memory Instances let you take advantage of other A … | Continue reading


@aws.amazon.com | 6 years ago

Segmenting brain tissue using MXNet with Amazon SageMaker

Annotation and segmentation of medical images is a laborious endeavor that can be automated in part via deep learning (DL) techniques. These approaches have achieved state-of-the-art results in generic segmentation tasks, the goal of which is to classify images at the pixel level … | Continue reading


@aws.amazon.com | 6 years ago

AWS now supports U2F/Yubikeys

AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) best practice is to require all IAM and root users in your account to sign into the AWS Management Console with multi-factor authentication (MFA). When MFA is enabled, AWS prompts users for their username and password (the first factor – w … | Continue reading


@aws.amazon.com | 6 years ago

Stack Overflow Research on Amazon RDS

Stack Overflow, the leading online community for developers, analyzed its own user data to create its report, "The Incredible Growth of Amazon RDS." The report draws on the results of Stack Overflow's annual Developer Survey to analyze topics including: the types of developers mo … | Continue reading


@aws.amazon.com | 6 years ago

AWS AppSync releases new guided API builder for GraphQL

Today, we’re launching a new guided API builder for AWS AppSync. Before today, knowing GraphQL was a prerequisite for building an AWS AppSync API because AWS AppSync is powered by GraphQL. GraphQL is a powerful API query language that allows your backend and applications to perfo … | Continue reading


@aws.amazon.com | 6 years ago

Parallel Query for Amazon Aurora

is a relational database that was designed to take full advantage of the abundance of networking, processing, and storage resources available in the cloud. While maintaining compatibility with MySQL and PostgreSQL on the user-visible side, Aurora makes use of a modern, purpose-bu … | Continue reading


@aws.amazon.com | 6 years ago

Discovering and indexing podcast episodes using Amazon Transcribe and Comprehend

As an avid podcast listener, I had always wished for an easy way to glimpse at the transcript of an episode to decide whether I should add it to my playlist (not all episode abstracts are equally helpful!). Another challenge with podcasts is that, although they contain a wealth o … | Continue reading


@aws.amazon.com | 6 years ago

Amazon Lightsail

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@aws.amazon.com | 6 years ago

AWS Data Transfer Price Reductions

I’ve got good good news for AWS customers who make use of our and Regions. Effective September 1, 2018 we are reducing prices for data transfer from , , and by up to 34% in Japan and 28% in Australia. EC2 and S3 Data Transfer Here are the new prices for data transfer from EC2 and … | Continue reading


@aws.amazon.com | 6 years ago

AWS Storage Gateway Hardware Appliance

connects your on-premises applications to AWS storage services such as , , and . It runs in your existing virtualized environment and is visible to your applications and your client operating systems as a file share, a local block volume, or a virtual tape library. The resulting … | Continue reading


@aws.amazon.com | 6 years ago

Training models with unequal economic error costs using Amazon SageMaker

Many companies are turning to machine learning (ML) to improve customer and business outcomes. They use the power of ML models built over “big data” to identify patterns and find correlations. Then they can identify appropriate approaches or predict likely outcomes based on data … | Continue reading


@aws.amazon.com | 6 years ago

AWS Japan Begins Manga Campaign

マンガで学ぶ AWS シリーズ。 『なな転び八起の AWS 開発日記』です。新米エンジニア八起ななこが、次々と降りかかる難題に、AWS のサービスを知ることで、解決し、そしてエンジニアとして成長していきます。初心者のエンジニアの方も、上級者のエンジニアの方にも楽しんでいただけるコンテンツです。 | Continue reading


@aws.amazon.com | 6 years ago

AWS Lambda Now Supports PowerShell Core

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@aws.amazon.com | 6 years ago

Mapillary uses Amazon Rekognition to build parking solutions for US cities

Mapillary is a collaborative street-level imagery platform that allows people and organizations to upload geo-tagged photos, which can then be used by customers to improve their mapping systems or applications. Mapillary uses Amazon Rekognition, a deep learning-based image and vi … | Continue reading


@aws.amazon.com | 6 years ago

Show HN: CloudSqueeze -Get alerts on resource change and impact on your AWS bill

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@aws.amazon.com | 6 years ago

New AWS Session Manager for Shell Access to EC2 Instances

It is a very interesting time to be a corporate IT administrator. On the one hand, developers are talking about (and implementing) an idyllic future where infrastructure as code, and treating servers and other resources as cattle. On the other hand, legacy systems still must be t … | Continue reading


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