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AWS Announces Redis 6 Compatibility to Amazon ElastiCache for Redis
Recently AWS announced Redis 6 compatibility to Amazon ElastiCache for Redis, which brings several new features such as Managed Role-Based Access Control, Client-Side caching and some significant operational improvements.
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AWS Releases Amazon Timestream into General Availability
AWS recently announced the general availability of Amazon Timestream, a serverless purpose-built database that exposes time-series data through SQL. With Amazon Timestream, customers can save time and costs in managing the lifecycle of time series data by keeping recent data in memory and moving historical data to a cost-optimized storage tier based on user-defined policies.
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AWS Launches New Contact Flow APIs for Amazon Connect
Amazon Connect is an omnichannel contact service for enterprises to set up and manage a contact center. It is based on the same technology used by 70,000 Amazon customer service associates around the world to power customer conversations.
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AWS Launches Low-Cost Burstable T4g Instances Powered by AWS Graviton2
AWS provides various Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instances, including a broad choice of Graviton2 processor-based, which allow customers to optimize their workloads on performance and costs. The latest addition to the Graviton2-based instances is the low cost burstable general-purpose T4g instances.
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Amazon Announces the Preview of AWS Controllers for Kubernetes (ACK)
AWS Controllers for Kubernetes (ACK) is a new tool by AWS allowing users to manage AWS services from Kubernetes directly. In a blog post, the public cloud vendor states the tool will make it easy to build scalable and highly-available Kubernetes applications that utilize AWS services.
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Amazon Makes Internal Machine-Learning Courses Public
Amazon has published videos and supplementary materials from several of its internal Machine Learning University courses. The course lectures cover three machine-learning topics and can be watched on-demand on YouTube, while the slides, notebooks, and datasets can be downloaded from GitHub. A total of twelve courses are planned to be released by the end of the year.
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Amazon Announces ECS Now Supports EC2 Inf1 Instances
In a recent blog post, Amazon announced that customers can now use the Amazon EC2 Inf1 instances on Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS). The company promises the instances will be high performant and have low, predictable costs.
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Amazon Announces the General Availability of AWS Glue 2.0
AWS Glue is a fully-managed extract, transform, and load (ETL) service that makes it easy for customers to prepare and load their data for analytics. With AWS Glue, customers don’t have to provision or manage any resources, and only pay for resources when the service is running.
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AWS Releases Amazon Fraud Detector into General Availability
Amazon Fraud Detector is a fully-managed service on AWS providing customers with the capability to quickly identify potentially fraudulent online activities, such as the creation of fake accounts, loyalty account and promotion code abuse or online payment fraud. The service uses machine learning (ML) and relies on two decades of fraud detection expertise from AWS and Amazon.com.
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The AWS Serverless LAMP Stack: the Future of PHP or Vendor Lock-in?
In a series of three technical articles, AWS has recently introduced the new "Serverless LAMP stack". But not everyone in the open-source community believes that the successor of the LAMP stack is proprietary technologies from a single vendor, and alternative approaches have been suggested.
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Amazon Announces New Command Line Interface Tool AWS Copilot
Recently, Amazon announced a new command-line interface tool called AWS Copilot, which allows customers to develop, release, and operate containerized applications on AWS. With a single command, customers can create all the infrastructure and artifacts necessary to run a service on Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) and AWS Fargate.
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Amazon Announces the General Availability of Monitoring Service AWS IoT SiteWise
IoT SiteWise is a fully managed service in AWS, which automates the processing of data from the plant floor, the structuring and marking of data, and generation of real-time metrics to monitor. The service provides customers with a way to connect their on-premise industrial equipment via a gateway to link their on-premises servers to the AWS cloud, where the data accumulates for analysis.
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AWS Announces General Availability of Amazon RDS Proxy
Amazon RDS Proxy is a new fully managed, highly available database proxy for MySQL and PostgreSQL databases running on Amazon RDS and Aurora. The service is tailored to serverless architectures and other applications that open and close database connections at a high rate.
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AWS Announces General Availability of Amazon CodeGuru
Recently, AWS announced the general availability of Amazon CodeGuru, a developer tool powered by machine learning. It provides intelligent recommendations for improving code quality and identifying an application's most expensive lines of code.
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AWS Launches a No-Code Mobile and Web App Builder in Beta: Amazon Honeycode
Recently, AWS announced the beta release of Amazon Honeycode, a fully managed service allowing customers to build mobile and web applications without writing any code quickly.