AQUA (Advanced Query Accelerator) – A Speed Boost for Your Amazon Redshift Queries
Amazon Redshift already provides up to 3x better price-performance at any scale than any other cloud data warehouse. We do this by designing our own Read More
Author: Jeff Barr
CloudWatch Metric Streams – Send AWS Metrics to Partners and to Your Apps in Real Time
When we launched Amazon CloudWatch back in 2009 (New Features for Amazon EC2: Elastic Load Balancing, Auto Scaling, and Amazon CloudWatch), it tracked performance metrics Read More
IAM Access Analyzer Update – Policy Validation
AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) is an important and fundamental part of AWS. You can create IAM policies and service control policies (SCPs) that Read More
New Amazon EC2 X2gd Instances – Graviton2 Power for Memory-Intensive Workloads
We launched the first Graviton-powered EC2 instances in late 2018 and announced the follow-on Graviton2 processor just a year later. The dual SIMD units, support Read More
AWS Fault Injection Simulator – Use Controlled Experiments to Boost Resilience
AWS gives you the components that you need to build systems that are highly reliable: multiple Regions (each with multiple Availability Zones), Amazon CloudWatch (metrics, Read More
Amazon S3 Glacier Price Reduction
The Amazon S3 Glacier storage class is ideal for data archiving and long-term backup of information that will be accessed at least once per quarter Read More
Amazon S3’s 15th Birthday – It is Still Day 1 after 5,475 Days & 100 Trillion Objects
I wrote the blog post that announced Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) fifteen years ago today. In that post, I made it clear that the Read More
AWS Asia Pacific (Osaka) Region Now Open to All, with Three AZs and More Services
AWS has had a presence in Japan for a long time! We opened the Asia Pacific (Tokyo) Region in March 2011, added a third Availability Read More
Amazon Location – Add Maps and Location Awareness to Your Applications
We want to make it easier and more cost-effective for you to add maps, location awareness, and other location-based features to your web and mobile Read More
Join the Preview – Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus (AMP)
Observability is an essential aspect of running cloud infrastructure at scale. You need to know that your resources are healthy and performing as expected, and Read More