Early Monday morning, an issue in AWS caused widespread outages across the internet for about three hours, starting around 3 AM ET. In an update to its status page, AWS said that the issue was related to DNS resolution in an API for its database, DynamoDB. Throughout the three hours while the issue was being… … continue reading
AWS is making it easier for customers to stay on top of availability of AWS services with the launch of its new AWS Product Lifecycle page. The new resource provides a centralized place to see all service availability, including services that are closing access to new customers, services that have announced end of support, and… … continue reading
The AWS Heroes program celebrated its 10-year anniversary this year, having grown into a program of over 200 AWS experts recognized for sharing their knowledge and expertise of AWS technology with the community. According to David Nalley, director of open source strategy and marketing at AWS, the program originally started because the company noticed that… … continue reading
At AWS re:Invent, Amazon announced a number of new storage capabilities, such as new Amazon EC2 instances and a new storage class for FSx in OpenZFS file systems. Amazon EC2 I8g instances are new EC2 instances optimized for storage, powered by 3rd gen AWS Nitro SSDs and AWS Graviton processors. They offer up to 65%… … continue reading
AWS is introducing the ability to centrally manage root access for accounts in an AWS Organization via AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM). Previously, AWS accounts with root access needed to be secured with layers of protection like multi-factor authentication, which security teams needed to manage manually and involved tasks like routinely rotating credentials, securely… … continue reading
AWS is introducing resource control policies (RCPs) to enable organizations to control the maximum available permissions for their company’s AWS resources. According to AWS, RCPs can help organizations be more confident that the resources in their user accounts stay within their company’s access control guidelines. RCPs are similar to service control policies (SCPs), which control… … continue reading
AWS has released a new solution designed to make it easier to get started with infrastructure automation. AWS Console-to-Code allows users to record the console actions they are performing and have those actions converted to code for later use. Code can be generated in several different infrastructure-as-code (IaC) formats, like an AWS CloudFormation template (YAML… … continue reading
AWS is announcing the launch of AWS Parallel Computing Service (PCS), a new managed service that sets up and manages high performance computing (HPC) clusters. HPC brings together multiple computers or resources to tackle more complex or resource-intensive workloads, like computational fluid dynamics, weather modeling, finite element analysis, electronic design automation, and reservoir simulations. With… … continue reading
AWS has just announced that customers can now create pools, or groups, of non-persistent virtual desktops through Amazon WorkSpaces. These pools can then be shared across a group of users, and each user in a pool gets the same applications and experience. According to AWS, users can access the virtual desktops via a browser, desktop… … continue reading
AWS has announced the launch of a common control library in AWS Audit Manager, its tool for mapping compliance requirements to AWS usage. The new library provides common controls that are already mapped to AWS data sources, which are based on mapping and reviews conducted by AWS auditors. It also provides the ability to view… … continue reading
Kyndryl has announced a new collaboration with AWS to provide its customers better insights into threats in their AWS environments. Kyndryl Threat Insights Managed Service provides a central repository for security data from AWS using Amazon Security Lake. By being able to access security data from a single view, companies will be able to uncover… … continue reading
Cloud Console Cartographer is an open-source project that allows IT teams to more easily read and understand cloud logs from AWS. “If you’ve spent any amount of time digging through logs trying to triage activity in an environment, you’ve probably been overwhelmed with the log data that comes from console activity,” explained Daniel Bohannon, principal… … continue reading
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