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Amazon ECS io2 Block Express Volumes is a SAN in Cloud

On July 19th 2021, Amazon announced the general availability of their new Amazon ECS io2 Block Express volumes service.  Amazon io2 volumes have been available since 2020 and they are essentially provisioned SSDs designed to deliver 99.999% durability. Amazon ECS io2 Block Express are io2 volumes running on the EBS Block Express architecture. ECS io2…

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AWS Details Frankfurt Data Center Outage Cause

One of the things that Amazon recommends for high availability is to be sure that your services span multiple AWS regions. The need for this advice was definitely underlined last week when the AWS Frankfurt data center experienced a failure. While this sort of thing is extremely, rare it does happen. When your services can…

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Amazon Location Service is Now Generally Available

Location and mapping are vital aspects of many mobile applications. However, developers face significant barriers to integrating location functionality into their applications. Integrating location services with your other mobile and web services can be difficult and time-consuming. Plus, there are issues around cost, privacy and security. First announced as a preview back in December 2020,…

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Amazon Announces Amazon Elastic Container Service Anywhere

This past May 2021, Amazon announced the general availability of Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) Anywhere.  While most organizations are looking to run their containerized workloads in the cloud, there are circumstances where they might also want to run them on-premise. That can create problems because managing your container workloads in the cloud and on-premise…

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AWS Makes the Transition to Containers Eaiser with App Runner

Unless you’ve been working out of a cave, you’ve probably heard that containers are the future in app development and that many businesses have been looking into using Docker, Kubernetes, and other containerized solutions to update their applications. However, moving to a new containerized platform can be difficult – requiring the mastery of lots of…

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Amazon Nimble Studio Enables Distributed Digital Content Creation

Amazon Nimble Studio is a new service that businesses and creative studios can use to produce digital content and CGI animations entirely in the AWS cloud. In the past, businesses relied on building and maintaining local server farms that consisted of high-performance systems in order to produce digital content. This typically required either expensive hardware…

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Amazon Releases AWS S3 Object Lambda

One of the most significant enhancements for AWS Simple Storage Service (S3) is the release of AWS S3 Object Lambda. In case you were wondering what Lambda is, Lambda is the 11th letter of the Greek alphabet. In the programming world, a Lambda function is a small anonymous function or block of code that can…

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AWS Turns 15

I know it seems almost impossible that it really could be 15 years but AWS launched its first service on Pi day March 14 2006 — making AWS 15 years old

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AWS and Azure used in SolarWinds Attack

The SolarWinds exploit was one of the biggest security breaches of the past year. There’s now no doubt that this cyberattack was the result of a very sophisticated effort. Microsoft estimated that it was the likely result of a 1000 engineers working on the creation of the malware. The attack worked by compromising SolarWinds’ software…

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AWS Announcement Highlights for February 2021

In spite of the heavy winter weather and ongoing pandemic, Amazon continues to churn out an impressive set of enhancements for AWS. Here are some of the highlights from Amazon’s February 2021 AWS announcements. AWS Outposts support local snapshots To better enable businesses to meet their data residency and local data processing needs, Amazon announced…

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