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Let Your IPv6-only Workloads Connect to IPv4 Services
Today we are announcing two new capabilities for HAQM Virtual Private Cloud (HAQM VPC) NAT gateway and HAQM Route 53, allowing your IPv6-only workloads to transparently communicate with IPV4-only services. Curious? Read on; I have details for you. Some of you are running very large workloads involving tens of thousands of virtual machines, containers, or […]
Happy 10th Birthday, DynamoDB! 🎉🎂🎁
On January 18th 2012, Jeff and Werner announced the general availability of HAQM DynamoDB, a fully managed flexible NoSQL database service for single-digit millisecond performance at any scale. During the last 10 years, hundreds of thousands of customers have adopted DynamoDB. It regularly reaches new peaks of performance and scalability. For example, during the last […]
HAQM GuardDuty Enhances Detection of EC2 Instance Credential Exfiltration
Updates: This blog post was updated on Jan, 23 2023 to show how to use imdsv2 instead of imdsv1 and on July, 16 2024 to refer to the new email address to contact the AWS Trust & Safety team HAQM GuardDuty is a threat detection service that continuously monitors for malicious activity and unauthorized behavior […]
A New AWS Console Home Experience
If you are reading this blog, there is a high chance you frequently use the AWS Management Console. I taught AWS classes for years. During classes, students’ first hands-on experience with the AWS Cloud happened on the console, and I bet yours did too. Until today, the home page of the console showed your most […]
HAQM Elastic Kubernetes Service Adds IPv6 Networking
Starting today, you can deploy applications that use IPv6 address space on HAQM Elastic Kubernetes Service (HAQM EKS). Many of our customers are standardizing Kubernetes as their compute infrastructure platform for cloud and on-premises applications. HAQM Elastic Kubernetes Service (HAQM EKS) makes it easy to deploy containerized workloads. It provides highly available clusters and automates […]
Use New HAQM EC2 M1 Mac Instances to Build & Test Apps for iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch, and Apple TV
14 November 2022: This blog has been updated to remove the link to the preview form. Last year at AWS re:Invent, Jeff Barr wrote about the exciting availability of HAQM Elastic Compute Cloud (HAQM EC2) Mac instances. Today, we’re announcing the preview of a new EC2 M1 Mac instance. The introduction of EC2 Mac instances […]
New – Site-to-Site Connectivity with AWS Direct Connect SiteLink
We are launching AWS Direct Connect SiteLink, a new capability of AWS Direct Connect that lets you create connections between your on-premises networks through the AWS global network backbone. Until today, when you needed direct connectivity between your data centers or branch offices, you had to rely on public internet or expensive and hard-to-deploy fixed […]
Enhanced HAQM S3 Integration for HAQM FSx for Lustre
Today, we are announcing two additional capabilities of HAQM FSx for Lustre. First, a full bi-directional synchronization of your file systems with HAQM Simple Storage Service (HAQM S3), including deleted files and objects. Second, the ability to synchronize your file systems with multiple S3 buckets or prefixes. Lustre is a large scale, distributed parallel file […]