AWS News Blog
Category: Compute
AWS Lambda functions now scale 12 times faster when handling high-volume requests
Now AWS Lambda scales up to 12 times faster. Each synchronously invoked Lambda function now scales by 1,000 concurrent executions every 10 seconds until the aggregate concurrency across all functions reaches the account’s concurrency limit. In addition, each function within an account now scales independently from each other, no matter how the functions are invoked. […]
HAQM EKS Pod Identity simplifies IAM permissions for applications on HAQM EKS clusters
Starting today, you can use HAQM EKS Pod Identity to simplify your applications that access AWS services. This enhancement provides you with a seamless and easy to configure experience that lets you define required IAM permissions for your applications in HAQM Elastic Kubernetes Service (HAQM EKS) clusters so you can connect with AWS services outside […]
Detect runtime security threats in HAQM ECS and AWS Fargate, new in HAQM GuardDuty
Today, we’re announcing HAQM GuardDuty ECS Runtime Monitoring to help detect potential runtime security issues in HAQM Elastic Container Service (HAQM ECS) clusters running on both AWS Fargate and HAQM Elastic Compute Cloud (HAQM EC2). GuardDuty combines machine learning (ML), anomaly detection, network monitoring, and malicious file discovery against various AWS data sources. When threats […]
Introducing HAQM EC2 high memory U7i Instances for large in-memory databases (preview)
The new U7i instances are designed to support large, in-memory databases including SAP HANA, Oracle, and SQL Server. Powered by custom fourth generation Intel Xeon Scalable Processors (Sapphire Rapids), the instances are now available in multiple AWS regions in preview form, in the US West (Oregon), Asia Pacific (Seoul), and Europe (Frankfurt) AWS Regions, as […]
HAQM Managed Service for Prometheus collector provides agentless metric collection for HAQM EKS
Today, I’m happy to announce a new capability, HAQM Managed Service for Prometheus collector, to automatically and agentlessly discover and collect Prometheus metrics from HAQM Elastic Kubernetes Service (HAQM EKS). HAQM Managed Service for Prometheus collector consists of a scraper that discovers and collects metrics from HAQM EKS applications and infrastructure without needing to run […]
AWS Weekly Roundup – EC2 DL2q instances, PartyRock, Amplify’s 6th birthday, and more – November 20, 2023
Last week I saw astonishing number of new feature and service launches. There were so many updates that we decided to publish a weekly roundup again. This continues the same innovative pace of the previous week as we are getting closer to AWS re:Invent 2023. Our News Blog team is also finalizing new blog posts […]
AWS Weekly Roundup – CloudFront security dashboard, EBS snapshots improvements, and more – November 13, 2023
This week, it was really difficult to choose what to recap here because, as we’re getting closer to AWS re:Invent, service teams are delivering new capabilities at an incredible pace. Last week’s launches Here are some of the launches that caught my attention last week: HAQM Aurora – Aurora MySQL zero-ETL integration with HAQM Redshift […]
AWS Weekly Roundup—Reserve GPU capacity for short ML workloads, Finch is GA, and more—November 6, 2023
The year is coming to an end, and there are only 50 days until Christmas and 21 days to AWS re:Invent! If you are in Las Vegas, come and say hi to me. I will be around the Serverlesspresso booth most of the time. Last week’s launches Here are some launches that got my attention during […]