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Author: Sébastien Stormacq
Seb has been writing code since he first touched a Commodore 64 in the mid-eighties. He inspires builders to unlock the value of the AWS cloud, using his secret blend of passion, enthusiasm, customer advocacy, curiosity and creativity. His interests are software architecture, developer tools and mobile computing. If you want to sell him something, be sure it has an API. Follow him on Twitter @sebsto.
New – HAQM RDS on Graviton2 Processors
I recently wrote a post to announce the availability of M6g, R6g and C6g families of instances on HAQM Elastic Compute Cloud (HAQM EC2). These instances offer better cost-performance ratio than their x86 counterparts. They are based on AWS-designed AWS Graviton2 processors, utilizing 64-bit Arm Neoverse N1 cores. Starting today, you can also benefit from […]
New – HAQM EC2 Instances based on AWS Graviton2 with local NVMe-based SSD storage
A few weeks ago, I wrote a post to announce the new AWS Graviton2 HAQM Elastic Compute Cloud (HAQM EC2) instance type, the M6g. Since then, hundreds of customers have observed significant cost-performance benefits. These include Honeycomb.io, SmugMug, Redbox, and Valnet Inc. On June 11, we announced two new families of instances based on AWS […]
HAQM EBS Fast Snapshot Restore for Shared EBS Snapshots
Snapshots are an integral part of HAQM Elastic Block Store (HAQM EBS). Snapshots allow you to create a block-level, point-in-time copy of your volumes for backup, or disaster-recovery purposes. Snapshots are incremental, only data modified since the last snapshots are copied again. You can share snapshots between AWS Regions, or AWS Accounts. Once you have […]
Create Snapshots From Any Block Storage Using EBS Direct APIs
I am excited to announce you can now create HAQM Elastic Block Store (HAQM EBS) snapshots from any block storage data, such as on-premises volumes, volumes from another cloud provider, existing block data stored on HAQM Simple Storage Service (HAQM S3), or even your own laptop :-) AWS customers using the cloud for disaster recovery […]
Single Sign-On between Okta Universal Directory and AWS
Update (May 2023) – Updated the final CLI example. Enterprises adopting the AWS Cloud want to effectively manage identities. Having one central place to manage identities makes it easier to enforce policies, to manage access permissions, and to reduce the overhead by removing the need to duplicate users and user permissions across multiple identity silos. […]
New – AWS Amplify Libraries for Android and iOS
When you develop mobile applications, you must develop a set of cloud-powered functionalities for each project. For example, most applications require user authentication or detailed in-app analytics. Your application most probably calls REST or GraphQL APIs and is required to support offline scenarios and data synchronization. AWS Amplify makes it easy to integrate such functionalities […]
New – EC2 M6g Instances, powered by AWS Graviton2
Starting today, you can use our first 6th generation HAQM Elastic Compute Cloud (HAQM EC2) General Purpose instance: the M6g. The “g” stands for “Graviton2“, our next generation Arm-based chip designed by AWS (and Annapurna Labs, an HAQM company), utilizing 64-bit Arm Neoverse N1 cores. These processors support 256-bit, always-on, DRAM encryption. They also include […]
Now Open – AWS Africa (Cape Town) Region
September 8, 2021: HAQM Elasticsearch Service has been renamed to HAQM OpenSearch Service. See details. The AWS Region in Africa that Jeff promised you in 2018 is now open. The official name is Africa (Cape Town) and the API name is af-south-1. You can start using this new Region today to deploy workloads and store […]