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AWS – Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP doubles the maximum throughput capacity and SSD IOPS per file system
Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP is doubling the maximum throughput capacity per file system from 2 GB/s to 4 GB/s and the maximum SSD IOPS from 80,000 to 160,000, enabling you to accelerate your performance-intensive workloads such as video rendering and database applications. Read More for the details.
AWS – AWS announces lower latencies for Amazon Elastic File System
Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) now delivers lower latencies enabling you to power an even broader set of applications with simple, scalable storage on AWS. Read More for the details.
AWS – Announcing the availability of Microsoft Office Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) on Amazon EC2 with AWS provided licenses
AWS now offers fully-compliant, Amazon-provided licenses for Microsoft Office LTSC Professional Plus 2021 Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) on Amazon EC2. These AMIs are now available on the Amazon EC2 console and on AWS Marketplace to launch instances on-demand without any long-term licensing commitments. With this offering, customers have the flexibility to run Microsoft Office dependent […]
AWS – Introducing Amazon EC2 R7iz instances
Starting today, memory-optimized, high-frequency Amazon EC2 R7iz instances are available in preview. R7iz instances are the first EC2 instances powered by 4th generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors (code named Sapphire Rapids) with an all core turbo frequency up to 3.9 GHz. These instances have the highest performance per vCPU among x86-based EC2 instances, and they […]
AWS – Announcing the general availability of AWS Wickr
AWS Wickr is an end-to-end encrypted, enterprise communications service that offers advanced security features and facilitates one-to-one chats, group messaging, calling, file sharing, screen sharing, and more. The service is now generally available. With AWS Wickr, organizations can collaborate more safely than with consumer-grade messaging applications. Advanced security and administrative controls help organizations meet data […]
AWS – Introducing AWS Glue 4.0
We’re pleased to announce the launch of AWS Glue version 4.0, a new version of AWS Glue that accelerates data integration workloads in AWS. AWS Glue 4.0 upgrades the Spark engines to Apache Spark 3.3.0 and Python 3.10. Glue 4.0 gives customers the latest Spark and Python releases so they can develop, run, and scale […]
AWS – AWS CloudTrail Lake now supports configuration items from AWS Config
AWS CloudTrail Lake now integrates with AWS Config to support ingestion and query of configuration items. Now you can query and analyze both configuration items and CloudTrail activity logs in CloudTrail Lake, thereby simplifying and streamlining your security and compliance investigations. CloudTrail Lake enables security teams to perform retrospective investigations by helping answer who made […]
AWS – Announcing Amazon Braket Algorithm Library where you can now access pre-built quantum algorithms
Today we are announcing the Braket Algorithm Library, an open-source, GitHub repository that provides researchers ready-to-use Python implementations for a set of popular quantum algorithms, reducing the time it takes to get started on Amazon Braket. Amazon Braket, the quantum computing service from AWS, provides customers access to quantum computers and managed simulators. Researchers interested […]
AWS – Amazon Redshift announces integration with Informatica Data Loader tool to accelerate data uploads at no cost
AWS announces Informatica Data Loader for Amazon Redshift, allowing you to run high-speed and high-volume data loading to Amazon Redshift for free. This integration allows you to launch and operate Informatica Data Loader within your Amazon Redshift console and easily copy data without having to install additional components or write code. You can upload large […]
AWS – AWS Config rules now support proactive compliance
AWS Config announces the ability to proactively check for compliance with AWS Config rules prior to resource provisioning. Customers use AWS Config to track the configuration changes made to their cloud resources and check if those resources match their desired configurations through a feature known as AWS Config rules. Proactive compliance allows customers to evaluate […]
