Amazon Web Services

AWS Snowball customers can now manage their connected Snowball Edge devices remotely. IT Pros can now operate these devices from AWS OpsHub or the AWS Command Line Interface (CLI), even when these devices are geographically dispersed. The AWS Snow Family is designed for business customers that need computing power and storage in non-data center environments where…

Back in December, Amazon released emergency fixes to address the Log4j vulnerability in JVMs across multiple environments, but it looks like these updates still left some security loopholes. Since Amazon published the fixes, security researchers have discovered that the original hot patch left AWS customers vulnerable to container escape and privilege escalation bugs (via The…

Microsoft is planning to make some changes to the way it licenses its products to customers who wish to use them on rival cloud platforms. According to a new report from Bloomberg, several customers have filed complaints against Microsoft’s policies regarding running Windows and Office on other cloud-computing services such as Google Cloud Platform or…

AWS Backup provides centralized data protection for your essential Amazon Web Services (AWS) services, as well as hybrid workloads leveraging on-premises VMware and VMware Cloud on AWS. AWS Backup is a fully managed, policy-based backup service that enables data protection at scale. Earlier this month, Amazon announced a couple of important enhancements to AWS Backup for…

Earlier this month, Amazon relaunched its AWS Educate offering, which is a set of learning courses that are designed specifically for pre-professional learners. As a part of the relaunch, AWS Educate is now open to all individuals no matter what level of education or technical experience they may have. Previously, AWS Educate was restricted to…

Now that March is here it’s almost that time of year again. No, I don’t mean St. Patrick’s Day. It’s almost time for AWS Pi Day 2022. Amazon S3, the first AWS service, was launched 16 years ago on Pi Day, March 14, 2006. On March 14th, 2022 Amazon will host its 2nd annual AWS…

There’s no doubt that file systems are some of the most fundamental cloud services, as they provide storage for cloud-native apps, hybrid apps, and on-premise backups. Amazon Web Services (AWS) Backup enables you to centralize and automate data protection across your AWS services. Using AWS Backup and its new support for S3, you can centrally…

The Terraform AWS provider lets you connect Terraform with Amazon cloud services such as AWS Elasticbeanstalk, AWS Lambda, etc. And unless you have the Terraform Amazon Web Services (AWS) provider defined, you cannot manage or work with Amazon Web Services. But no worries, in this tutorial, you will learn everything you need to know about…

After experiencing several regional outages late last year, Amazon has been adding replication technologies to several of their main storage technologies. Last month, Amazon added replication to their Elastic File System (Amazon EFS), and the company followed up this month by announcing Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) Batch Replication. Batch Replication is a fully managed,…

Amazon started off this new year with one pretty big change for Amazon Web Services (AWS). They updated the AWS Management Console. The AWS Management Console is probably the most frequently used AWS tool. The AWS Management Console is a web application that enables you to access and mange AWS resources. Until this past update…