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AWS Announces the General Availability of AWS Proton
Recently, AWS announced the general availability (GA) of its fully-managed application delivery service, AWS Proton, allowing customers to easily provision, deploy, and monitor the microservices that form the basis of modern container and serverless applications.
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AWS Announces the General Availability of Amazon ECS Anywhere
Recently AWS announced the general availability of Amazon ECS Anywhere, a new capability in Amazon ECS that enables customers to quickly run and manage container-based applications on-premises, including virtual machines (VMs), bare-metal servers, and other customer-managed infrastructure.
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AWS Announces the General Availability of Lambda Extensions
Recently AWS announced Lambda extensions' general availability (GA), which allows its users to integrate Lambda functions with their preferred tooling for monitoring, observability, security, and governance. The GA release includes performance improvements and an expanded set of partners.
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AWS Announces General Availability of New Application Migration Service
AWS Application Migration Service (AWS MGN) is a new service that enables organizations to move applications to AWS without making changes to the applications, their architecture, or the migrated servers. The public cloud provider announced the general availability of this service.
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AWS Announces a Data Management and Analytics Solution Called Amazon FinSpace
Recently, AWS announced a data management and analytics solution purpose-built for the Financial Services Industry (FSI) called Amazon FinSpace. The service aims to reduce the time it takes for financial analysts to find and access all types of financial data for analysis.
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AWS Announces the General Availability of CloudFront Functions
Recently, AWS announced the general availability of CloudFront Functions, a new edge computing capability. With this new CloudFront feature, customers can run JavaScript functions across the Cloud Front edge locations worldwide.
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AWS Launches a New Type of AWS Storage Gateway: Amazon FSx File Gateway
Recently, AWS launched Amazon FSx File Gateway as a new type of AWS Storage Gateway, providing customers with a way to access data stored in the cloud with Amazon FSx for Windows File Server, instead of using and managing on-premises file servers. Amazon FSx File Gateway optimizes the on-premises access of file shares by maintaining a local cache of frequently-accessed data.
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AWS Introduces Savings Plans and Instant Price Reductions for Amazon Sagemaker
Recently, AWS announced instant price reductions and Savings Plans for Amazon SageMaker, their fully-managed Machine Learning (ML) service. With Savings Plans for Amazon SageMaker, customers can benefit from cost savings up to 64% compared to the on-demand price. The company also drops the price of several instance families in Amazon SageMaker by up to 14.2%.
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Amazon Updates Its Elasticsearch Service, Begins Embrace of New Fork
Amazon recently released several enhancements to Amazon Elasticsearch Service. The new capabilities stem from two different sources: Elasticsearch, the project long associated with the service, and Open Distro for Elasticsearch, a new fork.
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AWS Announces the General Availability of the Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS
Recently AWS announced the general availability of Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS (ROSA), which provides a new managed service that makes it easier for Red Hat OpenShift customers to build, scale, and manage containerized applications on AWS. The service offers a fully-managed OpenShift service with joint support from AWS and Red Hat.
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AWS Outposts Now Supports Amazon Elastic Block Store Local Snapshots
Recently AWS announced that its Outposts service now supports Amazon Elastic Block Store (ESB) local snapshots. With Amazon EBS Local Snapshots on Outposts, customers can store snapshots of their Amazon EBS volumes locally on Amazon S3 on Outposts to meet their data residency and local data processing needs.
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AWS Announces Node.js 14 Support for Its Function as a Service, Lambda
Recently AWS announced Node.js version 14 support for its Function as a Service (FaaS), Lambda. Developers can now author AWS Lambda functions using Node.js' new features, such as top-level-await, enhanced diagnostics, modifications of the streams APIs, and a revised JavaScript engine for better performance.
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AWS Releases Privatelink for Amazon S3 into General Availability
AWS has recently announced that PrivateLink for Amazon S3 is now generally available (GA). With PrivateLink for Amazon S3, customers can securely connect Amazon S3 to on-premise resources.
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AWS Announces Amazon Aurora Supports PostgreSQL 12
AWS has recently announced that Amazon Aurora, a MySQL and PostgreSQL-compatible relational Database built for the Cloud, now supports major version 12 of PostgreSQL.
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AWS Announces Enhanced Console Experience and New v2 APIs for Amazon Lex
AWS recently announced updates to Amazon Lex, a service for building conversational interfaces into any application using voice and text. The service now has an enhanced management console and new V2 APIs, including continuous streaming capability.