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…

Amazon announced last week the availability of local clusters for Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) on AWS Outposts. Amazon EKS is a managed Kubernetes service that enables you to use the open-source container orchestration platform on AWS and on-premises data centers. As for AWS Outposts, it’s a family of on-premises fully managed solutions that deliver a hybrid Amazon…

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…

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,…

Earlier this week, Amazon announced some important compliance updates for Amazon FSx for Windows File Server. The company says that its popular cloud file storage service is finally FedRAMP compliant. Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program For those unfamiliar, FedRAMP (Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program) is a US government program that helps to standardize…

Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) allows EC2 instances, AWS Lambda functions and containers to share access to a fully-managed, high performance and highly available file system. Amazon EFS delivers low-latency performance for a wide variety of workloads and can scale to thousands of concurrent clients or connections. EFS can scale automatically and you only pay for…

You may certainly be familiar with the terms that begin with ‘the cloud’ like cloud computing, cloud storage, or cloud platforms. Simply put, the term ‘cloud’ encompasses all the processes and services that can be accessed over the Internet. This article explains how Amazon Web Services (AWS) fits into that picture. The services offered by…