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  Reduce Unwanted Traffic on Your Website with New AWS WAF Bot Control
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  According to research done by the AWS Shield Threat Research Team, up to 51% of traffic heading into typical web applications originates from scripts running on machines, also known as bots. A wide variety of bots – some wanted, some unwanted – are hitting your endpoints. Wanted bots are crawling your sites to index them […]
  
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  How to Get Started with Amazon Route 53 Resolver DNS Firewall for Amazon VPC
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  A DNS lookup is typically the starting point for establishing outbound connections within a network. Unwanted direct communication between Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) resources and internet services could be prevented using AWS services like security groups, network access control lists (ACLs) or AWS Network Firewall. These services filter network traffic, but they do not […]
  
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  CloudWatch Metric Streams – Send AWS Metrics to Partners and to Your Apps in Real Time
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  When we launched Amazon CloudWatch back in 2009 (New Features for Amazon EC2: Elastic Load Balancing, Auto Scaling, and Amazon CloudWatch), it tracked performance metrics (CPU load, Disk I/O, and network I/O) for EC2 instances, rolled them up at one-minute intervals, and stored them for two weeks. At that time it was used to monitor […]
  
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  Troubleshoot Boot and Networking Issues with New EC2 Serial Console
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  Fixing production issues is one of the key responsibilities of system and network administrators. In fact, I’ve always found it to be one of the most interesting parts of infrastructure engineering. Diving as deep as needed into the problem at hand, not only do you (eventually) have the satisfaction of solving the issue, you also […]
  
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  Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS Now GA
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  Our customers come to AWS with many different experiences and skill sets, and we are continually thinking about how we can make them feel at home on AWS. In this spirit, we are proud to launch Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS (ROSA), which allows customers familiar with Red Hat OpenShift tooling and APIs to […]
  
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  Introducing Amazon S3 Object Lambda – Use Your Code to Process Data as It Is Being Retrieved from S3
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  When you store data in Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3), you can easily share it for use by multiple applications. However, each application has its own requirements and may need a different view of the data. For example, a dataset created by an e-commerce application may include personally identifiable information (PII) that is not needed […]
  
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  IAM Access Analyzer Update – Policy Validation
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  AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) is an important and fundamental part of AWS. You can create IAM policies and service control policies (SCPs) that define the desired level of access to specific AWS services and resources, and then attach the policies to IAM principals (users and roles), groups of users, or to AWS resources. […]
  
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  New Amazon EC2 X2gd Instances – Graviton2 Power for Memory-Intensive Workloads
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  We launched the first Graviton-powered EC2 instances in late 2018 and announced the follow-on Graviton2 processor just a year later. The dual SIMD units, support for int8 and fp16 instructions, and other architectural improvements between generations combine to make the Graviton2 a highly cost-effective workhorse processor. Today, you can choose between General Purpose (M6g and […]
  
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  AWS Fault Injection Simulator – Use Controlled Experiments to Boost Resilience
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  AWS gives you the components that you need to build systems that are highly reliable: multiple Regions (each with multiple Availability Zones), Amazon CloudWatch (metrics, monitoring, and alarms), Auto Scaling, Load Balancing, several forms of cross-region replication, and lots more. When you put them together in line with the guidance provided in the Well-Architected Framework, […]
  
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  Amazon S3 Glacier Price Reduction
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  The Amazon S3 Glacier storage class is ideal for data archiving and long-term backup of information that will be accessed at least once per quarter (Amazon S3 Glacier Deep Archive is a better fit for data that is seldom accessed). Amazon S3 Glacier stores your data across three Availability Zones (AZs), each physically separated from […]
  
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  Amazon S3’s 15th Birthday – It is Still Day 1 after 5,475 Days & 100 Trillion Objects
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  I wrote the blog post that announced Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) fifteen years ago today. In that post, I made it clear that the service was accessed via APIs and that it was targeted at developers, outlined a few key features, and shared pricing information. Developers found that post, started to write code to […]
  
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  How to Use Channel Assembly with AWS Elemental MediaTailor to Launch Virtual Channels from Existing Sources
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  If you’re a broadcaster or Over-the-Top (OTT) channel operator, you can now create virtual channels by pulling together programming from multiple existing on-demand sources and blending them into a linear playlist. Creating a customized channel for a smaller audience group — such as a category of viewers based on interest, or regional preferences — was […]
  
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  Get to know the first new AWS Heroes of 2021!
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  The global AWS Heroes program recognizes individuals who are prominent leaders in local tech communities. Heroes help others learn about AWS by sharing knowledge via blog posts, presentations, social media, and open source projects; or by organizing events, Meetups, and workshops. As global communities grow we continue to see new leaders emerge, and today we’re […]
  
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  New – Lower Cost Storage Classes for Amazon Elastic File System
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  Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) provides a simple, serverless, set-and-forget elastic file system for shared data across Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instances or with container and serverless services such as Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS), Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS), AWS Fargate, and AWS Lambda. Until now, customers could choose Amazon EFS Standard […]
  
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  AWS Asia Pacific (Osaka) Region Now Open to All, with Three AZs and More Services
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  AWS has had a presence in Japan for a long time! We opened the Asia Pacific (Tokyo) Region in March 2011, added a third Availability Zone (AZ) in 2012, and a fourth in 2018. Since that launch, customers in Japan and around the world have used the region to host an incredibly wide variety of […]
  
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  AWS DeepRacer League’s 2021 Season Launches With New Open and Pro Divisions
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  As a developer, I have been hearing a lot of stories lately about how companies have solved their business problems using machine learning (ML), so one of my goals for 2021 is to learn more about it. For the last few years I have been using artificial intelligence (AI) services such as, Amazon Rekognition, Amazon […]
  
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  Amplify Flutter is Now Generally Available: Build Beautiful Cross-Platform Apps
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  AWS Amplify is a set of tools and services for building secure, scalable mobile and web applications. Currently, Amplify supports iOS, Android, and JavaScript (web and React Native) and is the quickest and easiest way to build applications powered by Amazon Web Services (AWS). Flutter is Google’s UI toolkit for building natively compiled mobile, web, […]
  
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  New – Amazon Elastic Block Store Local Snapshots on AWS Outposts
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  Today I am happy to announce that AWS Outposts customers can now make local snapshots of their Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) volumes, making it easy to meet data residency and local backup requirements. AWS Outposts is a fully managed service that extends AWS infrastructure, services, APIs, and tools to virtually any datacenter, co-location space, […]
  
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  AWS PrivateLink for Amazon S3 is Now Generally Available
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  At AWS re:Invent, we pre-announced that AWS PrivateLink for Amazon S3 was coming soon, and soon has arrived — this new feature is now generally available. AWS PrivateLink provides private connectivity between Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) and on-premises resources using private IPs from your virtual network. Way back in 2015, S3 was the first […]
  
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  New – Multiple Private Marketplace Catalogs
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  We launched AWS Marketplace in 2014, and it allows customers to find, buy, and immediately start using cloud-based applications developed by independent software vendors (ISVs). In 2018, we added the ability to add a Private Marketplace where you can curate a list of approved products your users can purchase from AWS Marketplace. Today we are […]
  
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