AWS News Blog
AWS Training & Certification Update – Free Digital Training + Certified Cloud Practitioner Exam
We recently made some updates to AWS Training and Certification to make it easier for you to build your cloud skills and to learn about many of the new services that we launched at . Free AWS Digital Training You can now find over 100 new digital training classes at aws.training, all with unlimited access […]
Read MoreAmazon Linux 2 – Modern, Stable, and Enterprise-Friendly
I’m getting ready to wrap up my work for the year, cleaning up my inbox and catching up on a few recent AWS launches that happened at and shortly after . Last week we launched . This is modern version of Linux, designed to meet the security, stability, and productivity needs of enterprise environments while […]
Read MoreNow Open AWS EU (Paris) Region
Today we are launching our 18th AWS Region, our fourth in Europe. Located in the Paris area, AWS customers can use this Region to better serve customers in and around France. The Details The new Region provides a broad suite of AWS services including , , , , , , , , , , , […]
Read MoreNew – Amazon CloudWatch Agent with AWS Systems Manager Integration – Unified Metrics & Log Collection for Linux & Windows
In the past I’ve talked about several agents, deaemons, and scripts that you could use to collect system metrics and log files for your Windows and Linux instances and on-premise services and publish them to . The data collected by this somewhat disparate collection of tools gave you visibility into the status and behavior of […]
Read MoreAmazon EC2 Price Reduction in the Asia Pacific (Mumbai) Region
Whew – I am just getting back in to blogging after a quick recovery from ! I’m happy to start things off with yet another AWS price reduction, this one for four instance families in the Region. Effective December 1, 2017 we are reducing prices for On-Demand and Reserved Instances as follows: M4 – Up […]
Read MoreNow Open – AWS China (Ningxia) Region
Today we launched our 17th Region globally, and the second in China. The AWS Region, operated by Ningxia Western Cloud Data Technology Co. Ltd. (NWCD), is generally available now and provides customers another option to run applications and store data on AWS in China. The Details At launch, the new China (Ningxia) Region, operated by […]
Read Morere:Invent Recap – Announcements to Boost Enterprise Innovation with Windows
My colleague Sandy Carter delivered the Enterprise Innovation State of the Union last week at . She wrote the guest post below to recap the announcements that she made from the stage. “I want my company to innovate, but I am not convinced we can execute successfully.” Far too many times I have heard this […]
Read MoreAWS Contributes to Milestone 1.0 Release and Adds Model Serving Capability for Apache MXNet
Post by Dr. Matt Wood Today AWS announced contributions to the milestone 1.0 release of the Apache MXNet deep learning engine including the introduction of a new model-serving capability for MXNet. The new capabilities in MXNet provide the following benefits to users: 1) MXNet is easier to use: The model server for MXNet is a […]
Read MoreGet Ready for the AWS Serverless Application Repository
applications have become mainstream more quickly than I ever could have imagined. Every second of every day, countless functions spring to life on an as-needed basis, take care of some critical business function, and then finish up. Our users tell us that they love the flexibility, scalability, and cost-effectiveness of this model. We want to […]
Read MoreAWS Cloud9 – Cloud Developer Environments
One of the first things you learn when you start programming is that, just like any craftsperson, your tools matter. Notepad.exe isn’t going to cut it. A powerful editor and testing pipeline supercharge your productivity. I still remember learning to use Vim for the first time and being able to zip around systems and complex […]
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