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Marcia Villalba

Author: Marcia Villalba

Marcia Villalba is a Principal Developer Advocate for HAQM Web Services. She has 20 years of experience working in the software industry building and scaling applications. Her passion is designing systems that can take full advantage of the cloud and embrace the DevOps culture.

HAQM MSK Serverless Now Generally Available–No More Capacity Planning for Your Managed Kafka Clusters

Today we are making HAQM MSK Serverless generally available to help you reduce even more the operational overhead of managing an Apache Kafka cluster by offloading the capacity planning and scaling to AWS. In May 2019, we launched HAQM Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (HAQM MSK) to help our customers stream data using Apache Kafka. […]

HAQM Aurora Serverless v2 is Generally Available: Instant Scaling for Demanding Workloads

Today we are very excited to announce that HAQM Aurora Serverless v2 is generally available for both Aurora PostgreSQL and MySQL. Aurora Serverless is an on-demand, auto-scaling configuration for HAQM Aurora that allows your database to scale capacity up or down based on your application’s needs. HAQM Aurora is a MySQL- and PostgreSQL-compatible relational database […]

Automatically Detect Operational Issues in Lambda Functions with HAQM DevOps Guru for Serverless

Today we are announcing HAQM DevOps Guru for Serverless, a new capability for HAQM DevOps Guru. It allows developers to improve the operational performance and availability of serverless applications. AWS pioneered the serverless computing space with the launch of AWS Lambda in 2014. Today, hundreds of thousands of customers are using AWS Lambda. Lambda allows […]

NEW – Replicate Existing Objects with HAQM S3 Batch Replication

Starting today, you can replicate existing HAQM Simple Storage Service (HAQM S3) objects and synchronize your buckets using the new HAQM S3 Batch Replication feature. HAQM S3 Replication supports several customer use cases. For example, you can use it to minimize latency by maintaining copies of your data in AWS Regions geographically closer to your […]

New DynamoDB Table Class – Save Up To 60% in Your DynamoDB Costs

Today we are announcing HAQM DynamoDB Standard-Infrequent Access (DynamoDB Standard-IA). A new table class for DynamoDB that reduces storage costs by 60 percent compared to existing DynamoDB Standard tables, and that delivers the same performance, durability, and scaling. Nowadays, many customers are moving their infrequently accessed data between DynamoDB and HAQM Simple Storage Service (HAQM […]

New – HAQM DevOps Guru for RDS to Detect, Diagnose, and Resolve HAQM Aurora-Related Issues using ML

Today we are announcing HAQM DevOps Guru for RDS, a new capability for HAQM DevOps Guru. It allows developers to easily detect, diagnose, and resolve performance and operational issues in HAQM Aurora. Hundreds of thousands of customers nowadays are using HAQM Aurora because it is highly available, scalable, and durable. But as applications grow in […]

HAQM S3 Glacier is the Best Place to Archive Your Data – Introducing the S3 Glacier Instant Retrieval Storage Class

Today we are announcing the HAQM S3 Glacier Instant Retrieval storage class. This new archive storage class delivers the lowest cost storage for long-lived data that is rarely accessed and requires millisecond retrieval. We are also excited to announce that S3 Intelligent-Tiering now automatically optimizes storage costs for rarely accessed data that needs immediate retrieval […]