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  AWS Week in Review – August 15, 2022
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  I love the AWS Twitch channel for watching interesting online live shows such as AWS On Air, Containers from the Couch, and Serverless Office Hours. Last week, AWS Storage Day 2022 was hosted virtually on the AWS Twitch channel and covered recent announcements and insights that address customers’ needs to reduce and optimize storage costs and build data resiliency […]
  
  https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-week-in-review-august-15-2022/
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  New – AWS Private 5G – Build Your Own Private Mobile Network
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  Back in the mid-1990’s, I had a young family and 5 or 6 PCs in the basement. One day my son Stephen and I bought a single box that contained a bunch of 3COM network cards, a hub, some drivers, and some cables, and spent a pleasant weekend setting up our first home LAN. Introducing […]
  
  https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-aws-private-5g-build-your-own-private-mobile-network/
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  Welcome to AWS Storage Day 2022
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  We are on the fourth year of our annual AWS Storage Day! Do you remember our first Storage Day 2019 and the subsequent Storage Day 2020? I watched Storage Day 2021, which was streamed live from downtown Seattle. We continue to hear from our customers about how powerful the Storage Day announcements and educational sessions […]
  
  https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/welcome-to-aws-storage-day-2022/
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  AWS Week in Review – August 8, 2022
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  As an ex-.NET developer, and now Developer Advocate for .NET at AWS, I’m excited to bring you this week’s Week in Review post, for reasons that will quickly become apparent! There are several updates, customer stories, and events I want to bring to your attention, so let’s dive straight in! Last Week’s launches .NET developers, […]
  
  https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-week-in-review-august-8-2022/
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  Graviton Fast Start – A New Program to Help Move Your Workloads to AWS Graviton
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  With the Graviton Challenge last year, we helped customers migrate to Graviton-based EC2 instances and get up to 40 percent price performance benefit in as little as 4 days. Tens of thousands of customers, including 48 of the top 50 Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) customers, use AWS Graviton processors for their workloads. In […]
  
  https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/graviton-fast-start-a-new-program-to-help-move-your-workloads-to-aws-graviton/
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  New – Run Visual Studio Software on Amazon EC2 with User-Based License Model
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  Today we are announcing the general availability of license-included Visual Studio software on Amazon Elastic Cloud Compute (Amazon EC2) instances. You can now purchase fully compliant AWS-provided licenses of Visual Studio with a per-user subscription fee. Amazon EC2 provides preconfigured Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) of Visual Studio Enterprise 2022 and Visual Studio Professional 2022. You […]
  
  https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-run-visual-studio-software-on-amazon-ec2-with-user-based-license-model/
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  New – AWS Skill Builder Subscriptions
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  Today, I am excited to announce AWS Skill Builder Individual and Team subscriptions. This is a new way for you to learn about cloud technologies and get practical experience with hands-on training. Between 2013 and 2016, I spent three years delivering AWS Training classes to customers in Europe, North America, and Asia. At the time, […]
  
  https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-aws-skill-builder-subscriptions/
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  AWS Week in Review – August 1, 2022
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  AWS re:Inforce returned to Boston last week, kicking off with a keynote from Amazon Chief Security Officer Steve Schmidt and AWS Chief Information Security officer C.J. Moses: Be sure to take some time to watch this video and the other leadership sessions, and to use what you learn to take some proactive steps to improve […]
  
  https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-week-in-review-august-1-2022/
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  New for AWS Global Accelerator – Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6) Support
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  IPv6 adoption has consistently increased over the last few years, especially among mobile networks. The main reasons to move to IPv6 are: The limited availability of IPv4 addresses can limit the ability to scale up public-facing web and applications servers. IPv6 users from mobile networks experience better performance when their network traffic doesn’t need to […]
  
  https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-for-aws-global-accelerator-internet-protocol-version-6-ipv6-support/
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  Fortinet FortiCNP – Now Available in AWS Marketplace
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  When I first started to talk about AWS in front of IT professionals, they would always listen intently and ask great questions. Invariably, a seasoned pro would raise there hand and ask “This all sounds great, but have you thought about security?” Of course we had, and for a while I would describe our principal […]
  
  https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/fortinet-forticnp-now-available-in-aws-marketplace/
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  New for Amazon GuardDuty – Malware Detection for Amazon EBS Volumes
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  With Amazon GuardDuty, you can monitor your AWS accounts and workloads to detect malicious activity. Today, we are adding to GuardDuty the capability to detect malware. Malware is malicious software that is used to compromise workloads, repurpose resources, or gain unauthorized access to data. When you have GuardDuty Malware Protection enabled, a malware scan is […]
  
  https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-for-amazon-guardduty-malware-detection-for-amazon-ebs-volumes/
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  Amazon Detective Supports Kubernetes Workloads on Amazon EKS for Security Investigations
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  In March 2020, we introduced Amazon Detective, a fully managed service that makes it easy to analyze, investigate, and quickly identify the root cause of potential security issues or suspicious activities. Amazon Detective continuously extracts temporal events such as login attempts, API calls, and network traffic from Amazon GuardDuty, AWS CloudTrail, and Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) […]
  
  https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-detective-supports-kubernetes-workloads-on-amazon-eks-for-security-investigations/
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  AWS Week In Review – July 25, 2022
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  A few weeks ago, we hosted the first EMEA AWS Heroes Summit in Milan, Italy. This past week, I had the privilege to join the Americas AWS Heroes Summit in Seattle, Washington, USA. Meeting with our community experts is always inspiring and a great opportunity to learn from each other. During the Summit, AWS Heroes […]
  
  https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-week-in-review-july-25-2022/
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  Amazon Prime Day 2022 – AWS for the Win!
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  As part of my annual tradition to tell you about how AWS makes Prime Day possible, I am happy to be able to share some chart-topping metrics (check out my 2016, 2017, 2019, 2020, and 2021 posts for a look back). My purchases this year included a first aid kit, some wood brown filament for […]
  
  https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-prime-day-2022-aws-for-the-win/
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  How We Sent an AWS Snowcone into Orbit
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  I have been a fan of space travel and the US space program since I was 4 or 5 years old. I remember reading about the Mercury and Gemini programs, and watched with excitement as Lunar Module Eagle landed on the Moon. Today, with the cost to reach Low Earth Orbit (LEO) seemingly declining with […]
  
  https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/how-we-sent-an-aws-snowcone-into-orbit/
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  New – Amazon EC2 R6a Instances Powered by 3rd Gen AMD EPYC Processors for Memory-Intensive Workloads
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  We launched the general-purpose Amazon EC2 M6a instances at AWS re:Invent 2021 and compute-intensive C6a instances in February of this year. These instances are powered by the 3rd Gen AMD EPYC processors running at frequencies up to 3.6 GHz to offer up to 35 percent better price performance versus the previous generation instances. Today, we […]
  
  https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-amazon-ec2-r6a-instances-powered-by-3rd-gen-amd-epyc-processors-for-memory-intensive-workloads/
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  AWS Week In Review – July 18, 2022
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  Last week, AWS Summit New York was held in person at the Javits Center with thousands of attendees and over 100 sponsors and partners. During the keynote, Martin Beeby, AWS Principal Developer Advocate, talked about how innovations in cloud infrastructure enable customers to adapt to challenges and seize new opportunities. It included Liz Fong-Jones‘s great […]
  
  https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-week-in-review-july-18-2022/
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  New — Detect and Resolve Issues Quickly with Log Anomaly Detection and Recommendations from Amazon DevOps Guru
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  Today, we are announcing a new feature, Log Anomaly Detection and Recommendations for Amazon DevOps Guru. With this feature, you can find anomalies throughout relevant logs within your app, and get targeted recommendations to resolve issues. Here’s a quick look at this feature: AWS launched DevOps Guru, a fully managed AIOps platform service, in December […]
  
  https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-detect-and-resolve-issues-quickly-with-log-anomaly-detection-and-recommendations-from-amazon-devops-guru/
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  Amazon Redshift Serverless – Now Generally Available with New Capabilities
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  Last year at re:Invent, we introduced the preview of Amazon Redshift Serverless, a serverless option of Amazon Redshift that lets you analyze data at any scale without having to manage data warehouse infrastructure. You just need to load and query your data, and you pay only for what you use. This allows more companies to […]
  
  https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-redshift-serverless-now-generally-available-with-new-capabilities/
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  New – Cloud WAN : A Managed WAN Service
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  I am pleased to announce the availability of AWS Cloud WAN, a new network service that makes it easy to build and operate wide area networks (WAN) that connect your data centers and branch offices, as well as multiple VPCs in multiple AWS Regions. Typically, large enterprises have resources running in different on-premises data centers, […]
  
  https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-cloud-wan-a-managed-wan-service/