Starting today, customers can use Amazon EC2 On-Demand Capacity Reservations to reserve capacity for cluster placement groups. With cluster placement groups, customers can launch EC2 instances into logical groups within a segment of the network with high bisection bandwidth, thus getting low latency and high throughput between instances inside the cluster. Cluster placement groups are […]

You can now access your instance’s tags from the EC2 Instance Metadata Service. Tags enable you to categorize your AWS resources in different ways, for example, by purpose, owner, or environment. This is useful when you have many resources of the same type—you can quickly identify a specific resource based on the tags that you’ve […]

AWS Lambda functions using the Node.js 14 runtime now support code packaged as ECMAScript modules, allowing Lambda customers to consume a wider range of JavaScript packages in their Lambda functions. In addition, Lambda customers can now take advantage of ‘top-level await’, a Node.js 14 language feature. When used with Provisioned Concurrency, this improves cold-start performance […]

Amazon OpenSearch Service (successor to Amazon Elasticsearch Service) now supports enabling fine-grained access control on existing domains. Fine-grained access control adds several capabilities to help you have better access control over the data stored in your domain. Read More for the details.

Amazon EMR on EKS enables customers to easily run open-source big data frameworks such as Apache Spark on Amazon EKS. Amazon EMR on EKS customers setup and use a managed endpoint (available in preview) to run interactive workloads using integrated development environments (IDE) such as EMR Studio. Read More for the details.

Today AWS is announcing the general availability of AWS Serverless Application Model CLI (AWS SAM CLI) support for local testing of AWS Cloud Development Kit applications. AWS SAM and AWS CDK are both open-source frameworks for building applications using infrastructure as code (IaC). AWS SAM is made up of the SAM template, which is a […]

Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) now supports IPv6, enabling customers to scale containerized applications on Kubernetes far beyond limits of private IPv4 address space, while achieving high network bandwidth with minimal complexity. Read More for the details.

Since our last update in November 2021, AWS CloudFormation Registry has expanded to include support for 37 new resource types (refer to the complete list below) between November and December 2021. A resource type includes schema (resource properties and handler permissions) and handlers that allow API interactions with the underlying AWS or third-party services. Customers can now […]