AWS Backup now supports schedule-based network bandwidth throttling for VMware. This allows you to optimize network bandwidth used for backups and restores between your VMware environment and AWS. You can throttle the network bandwidth used by the Backup gateway for VMware backups, based on a schedule you set on the Backup gateway. This enables you […]

With Amazon Athena, you can run SQL queries on data stored in relational, non-relational, object, and custom data sources without the need to pre-process or move data to another storage solution. Starting today, you can use Athena to query real-time streaming data held in Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (MSK) and self-managed Apache Kafka. […]

AWS Trusted Advisor now helps customers improve fault tolerance with new checks for Amazon ElastiCache for Redis, Amazon MemoryDB for Redis, and AWS CloudHSM. AWS Trusted Advisor evaluates your AWS account with automated best practice checks and provides cloud optimization recommendations to reduce costs, improve performance, increase security, and monitor service quotas. You can find […]

AWS launches Amazon EKS managed node groups for Windows containers to automate the provisioning and lifecycle management of Windows nodes (running on Amazon EC2 instances) for EKS Kubernetes clusters. With this launch, Windows-based applications will automatically provision and register the Amazon EC2 instances that provide compute capacity. Now customers can create, automatically update, or terminate […]

Amazon QuickSight is now available in Stockholm and Paris regions. New accounts are able to sign up for QuickSight with Stockholm or Paris as their primary region, making SPICE capacity available in the region and ensuring proximity to AWS and on-premises data sources. Existing users can switch regions with the region switcher and create SPICE […]

Amazon Location Service expands support to four more regions, Asia Pacific (Mumbai), Canada (Central), Europe (London), and South America (Sao Paulo). Developers in these regions can easily add maps, search for addresses and points of interest, calculate routes, track their assets, and geofence regions of interest, while experiencing the lowest latency response. By using local […]

Amazon Location Service adds a new data option to the Maps feature, Open Data, based on data from OpenStreetMap (OSM), a geospatial data source supported by a global community. Developers can now easily access reliable and up-to-date OSM data with no upfront investment or specialized geospatial knowledge. In addition to the high-quality data provider options […]

The AWS Pricing Calculator now supports the ability to bulk estimate costs for Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances, Dedicated hosts and Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) volumes using a structured Excel template. Read More for the details.

Today, AWS Marketplace launched automated emails to communicate relevant details to buyers and sellers once a private offer is successfully created and available for subscription. With this launch, buyers can now directly receive a private offer deep link from a seller, allowing them to promptly review and accept a private offer. ISVs and channel partners […]

The AWS Pricing Calculator now offers a redesigned user interface that allows you to generate price estimates for Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances in the shared tenancy model, the dedicated tenancy model, and Amazon EC2 dedicated hosts. The calculator makes it easier for you to switch among the three tenancy options with a […]