Kategorie: Amazon AWS

8 new Config Rules to govern the configuration of critical AWS resources

AWS Config launched 8 new managed rules that automatically evaluate the configuration of important AWS resources:

IAM Password Policy: Checks whether the password policy for IAM Users meets the specified criteria. This rule codifies best practices, and you can further strengthen the policy.
RDS encryption: Checks whether storage encryption is enabled for your RDS DB Instances. Optionally, you can specify the KMS Key ID that should be used.
RDS Multi-AZ: Checks whether high availability is enabled for your RDS DB Instances.
RDS Backup: Checks whether RDS DB Instances have backups enabled. You can also check for expected backup windows and retention policies.
EBS Optimized EC2 Instances: Checks whether EBS optimization is enabled for EC2 Instance types that can be EBS optimized. This rule ensures best I/O performance for EBS volumes attached to these instances.
EC2 Instance Type: Checks whether EC2 Instances are of the specified set of types. For example, all EC2 Instances must be of type t2.small or m4.large.
Approved AMIs by ID: Checks whether running EC2 Instances are using the approved set of AMI IDs.
Approved AMIs by Tag: Checks whether running EC2 Instances are using the set of AMIs specified by Tag key/value on these AMIs.

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AWS Schema Conversion Tool Copies Schemas and Optimizes for the Cloud

We are pleased to announce that you can now use the AWS Schema Conversion Tool to copy your existing database schema from a legacy database to a new database on EC2 or RDS for homogeneous replications. The conversion engine has also been enhanced to offer even more automated conversions should you wish to switch from a commercial database to a cloud-native, open-source solution.
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Amazon EC2 Container Service Supports Automated Task and Image Cleanup

Amazon EC2 Container Service (Amazon ECS) now supports automated cleanup of stopped tasks and Docker images that are not being used by any tasks on your container instances.
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Amazon Elastic Transcoder Available In The Asia Pacific (Mumbai) Region

Amazon Elastic Transcoder lets you convert source media files into formats that will playback on devices like smartphones, tablets and PCs. It manages all aspects of the media transcoding process for you transparently and automatically. There’s no need to administer software, scale hardware, tune performance, or otherwise manage transcoding infrastructure. You simply create a transcoding “job” specifying the location of your source media file and how you want it transcoded. Amazon Elastic Transcoder also provides transcoding presets for popular output formats, which means that you don’t need to guess about which settings work best on particular devices. All these features are available via service API, AWS SDKs and the AWS Management Console. 
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Amazon Game Studios Announce Breakaway

Amazon Game Studios announced their new game, Breakaway, at TwitchCon this year. Breakaway is a mythological sport brawler built for fast action, teamwork, and live streaming. AGS also announced new upcoming features that are built for Twitch: Stream+, Twitch Metastream, Broadcaster Match Builder and Broadcaster Spotlight.
To learn about Breakaway and more, visit playbreakaway.com and follow @PlayBreakaway on Twitter.
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Amazon Redshift introduces new data type to support time zones in time stamps

You can now use time zones as part of time stamps in Amazon Redshift. The new TIMESTAMPTZ data type allows you to input timestamp values that include a time zone. Amazon Redshift automatically converts timestamps to Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) and stores the UTC values. Also, the COPY command now recognizes timestamp values with time zones in the source data and automatically converts them to UTC.  You can retrieve and display timestamps in Amazon Redshift by setting your preferred time zone at the session level, user level or client connection level.  
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Introducing Amazon EC2 P2 Instances, the largest GPU-Powered virtual machine in the cloud

We are excited to announce the availability of P2 instances, a new instance type designed for compute-intensive applications that require high-performance GPU coprocessors and massive parallel floating point performance. P2 instances are ideal for deep learning, computational fluid dynamics, computational finance, seismic analysis, molecular modeling, genomics, and rendering workloads. For graphics workloads requiring DirectX and OpenGL, you can continue to use G2 instances. 
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Amazon EC2 Convertible Reserved Instances and the Reserved Instance Regional Benefit

Standard Reserved Instances (“RIs”) have been available for 8 years, and provide customers the option to commit to use a specific instance size in an instance family in an availability zone (“AZ”) for either one or three years in exchange for our largest discount off On-Demand prices (~40-60% on average). 
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Amazon Cognito available in Asia Pacific (Seoul) and EU (Frankfurt) regions

Amazon Cognito is now available in the Asia Pacific (Seoul) and EU (Frankfurt) regions. 
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Introducing new M4 instance size, m4.16xlarge, and new region availability of M4 instances

We are excited to announce the availability of the m4.16xlarge, the largest instance size in the latest generation of EC2 General Purpose instances, featuring 64 vCPUs and 256 GiB of memory. The m4.16xlarge offers a balance of compute, memory, and network resources, and is a good choice for many applications including databases, data processing tasks, cluster computing, and web servers that require high computational horsepower or memory size.
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