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AWS Launches a New Console Home Page to Manage Cloud Resources
Recently, AWS launched a version of the AWS Management Console. Through the home page of the console, customers can have access to each service console, and it offers a single place to access the information they need to perform their AWS related tasks.
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Amazon EC2 Hpc6a Instances, Optimized for High-Performance Computing, Are Now Generally Available
Recently, AWS announced the general availability (GA) of Amazon EC2 Hpc6a Instances. With these instances, the company expands its portfolio of HPC compute options.
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AWS Offers Two New Outposts SKUs Suitable for Space Constrained Locations
AWS Outposts provides customers with on-premises compute and storage monitored and managed by AWS and controlled by the same, familiar AWS APIs. Last year at re:Invent in Vegas, AWS announced two new smaller AWS Outposts form factors suitable for locations such as branch offices, retail stores, hospitals, and cell sites that are space-constrained and need access to low-latency compute capacity.
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Incorrect IAM Policy Raised Questions about AWS Access to S3 Data
An unexpected change in the policy used by AWS Support raised concerns about access to customers' S3 data. The cloud provider reverted the change, stating that the permissions were not and could not be used and published a security bulletin. Security experts suggest steps to detect and prevent similar issues in the future.
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AWS Announces Further Worldwide Expansion of Local Zones
AWS Local Zones are an infrastructure deployment that places compute, storage, database, and other select AWS services close to a large population and industrial centers. And recently, AWS announced the launch of over 30 new AWS Local Zones in significant cities worldwide.
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AWS Offers a Mainframe Modernization Service for Customers to Move from Their Mainframes
During re:Invent 2021, AWS launched a mainframe migration service allowing customers to migrate and modernize their on-premises mainframe workloads to a managed and highly available runtime environment on AWS. The service called AWS Mainframe Modernization is currently in preview.
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AWS Re-Launches Amazon Inspector with New Architecture and Features
Amazon Inspector is an automated vulnerability management service that continually scans AWS workloads for software vulnerabilities and unintended network exposure. It was first launched in 2015, and during the recent re:Invent 2021, AWS re-launched it with brand new architecture and a host of new features such as container-based workloads, integration with Amazon Event Bridge, and Security Hub.
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AWS Cloud WAN, a New Managed Wide-Area Networking Service, is Now in Preview
Recently, Invent 2021 AWS announced the preview release of a new networking service, AWS Cloud WAN. With this managed wide-area networking (WAN) service, customers can build, manage, and monitor a global network that connects resources running across your cloud and on-premises environments.
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AWS Announces Construct Hub and New Version of AWS Cloud Development Kit at re:Invent 2021
Recently, AWS announced the general availability (GA) of version 2.0 of the AWS Cloud Development Kit (AWS CDK) and AWS Construct Hub during its annual re:Invent conference.
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AWS Releases Preview of a New Low-Code Development Tool with Amplify Studio at re:Invent
At the recent re:Invent AWS announced Amplify Studio, a new Figma-connected low-code service meant to help developers quickly build cloud-connected apps. The new tool is an extension of the existing AWS Amplify service, which focuses on building web and mobile apps but lacks the easy-to-use drag-and-drop interface of Amplify.
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Get Consistent Access to Third-Party APIs with AWS Data Exchange for APIs
During the recent AWS re:Invent in Las Vegas, the company announced the AWS Data Exchange for APIs. This new capability enables customers to find, subscribe to, and use third-party API products from providers on AWS Data Exchange.
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AWS Launches Amazon Kinesis Data Streams On-Demand
Amazon Kinesis Data Streams is a fully-managed, serverless service on AWS for real-time processing of streamed data at a massive scale. Recently, the company released a new capacity mode On-demand for the service, which eliminates capacity provisioning and management for streaming workloads.
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AWS Introduces Amazon FSx for OpenZFS
Recently, AWS announced the release of a managed file storage service Amazon FSx for OpenZFS, the newest addition to the Amazon FSx family. It is one of the four new storage services the company announced at AWS re:Invent aimed at delivering more choice, reducing costs, and helping customers better protect their data.
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AWS Introduces Amazon S3 Event Notifications with Amazon EventBridge
During the annual re:Invent, AWS introduced Amazon S3 Event Notifications for its serverless event bus service Amazon EventBridge. With S3 notifications, developers can leverage a more reliable and faster “directly wired” model.
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AWS Announces Custom Lenses Feature for Its Well-Architected Framework
Recently, AWS announced AWS Well-Architected Custom Lenses, a new feature of the AWS Well-Architected Tool. With this new feature, customers can bring their own best practices to complement the existing framework based on their industry, operational plans, and internal processes.