Glen Knight

NYC Based IT Professional

Simplified Time-Series Analysis with Amazon CloudWatch Contributor Insights

Inspecting multiple log groups and log streams can make it more difficult and time consuming to analyze and diagnose the impact of an issue in real time. What customers are affected? How badly? Are some affected more than others, or are outliers? Perhaps you performed deployment of an update using a staged rollout strategy and […]

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CloudWatch Contributor Insights for DynamoDB – Now Generally Available

Amazon DynamoDB provides our customers a fully-managed key-value database service that can easily scale from a few requests per month to millions of requests per second. DynamoDB supports some of the world’s largest scale applications by providing consistent, single-digit millisecond response times at any scale. You can build applications with virtually unlimited throughput and storage. DynamoDB global […]

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Amazon Redshift update – ra3.4xlarge instances

Since we launched Amazon Redshift as a cloud data warehouse service more than seven years ago, tens of thousands of customers built their workloads using it. We are always listening to your feedback and, in December last year, we announced our 3rd generation RA3 node type providing you the ability to scale compute and storage […]

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AWS DeepComposer – Now Generally Available With New Features

AWS DeepComposer, a creative way to get started with machine learning, was launched in preview at AWS re:Invent 2019. Today, I’m extremely happy to announce that DeepComposer is now available to all AWS customers, and that it has been expanded with new features. A primer on AWS DeepComposer If you’re new to AWS DeepComposer, here’s […]

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Amazon Detective – Rapid Security Investigation and Analysis

Almost five years ago, I blogged about a solution that automatically analyzes AWS CloudTrail data to generate alerts upon sensitive API usage. It was a simple and basic solution for security analysis and automation. But demanding AWS customers have multiple AWS accounts, collect data from multiple sources, and simple searches based on regular expressions are […]

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New – Use AWS IAM Access Analyzer in AWS Organizations

Last year at AWS re:Invent 2019, we released AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) Access Analyzer that helps you understand who can access resources by analyzing permissions granted using policies for Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) buckets, IAM roles, AWS Key Management Service (KMS) keys, AWS Lambda functions, and Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS) queues. […]

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Now Open – Third Availability Zone in the AWS Canada (Central) Region

When you start an EC2 instance, or store data in an S3 bucket, it’s easy to underestimate what an AWS Region is. Right now, we have 22 across the world, and while they look like dots on a global map, they are architected to let you run applications and store data with high availability and fault tolerance. […]

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New – Low-Cost HDD Storage Option for Amazon FSx for Windows File Server

You can use Amazon FSx for Windows File Server to create file systems that can be accessed from a wide variety of sources and that use your existing Active Directory environment to authenticate users. Last year we added a ton of features including Self-Managed Directories, Native Multi-AZ File Systems, Support for SQL Server, Fine-Grained File […]

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BuildforCOVID19 Global Online Hackathon

The COVID-19 Global Hackathon is an opportunity for builders to create software solutions that drive social impact with the aim of tackling some of the challenges related to the current coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. We’re encouraging YOU – builders around the world – to #BuildforCOVID19 using technologies of your choice across a range of suggested themes […]

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Working From Home? Here’s How AWS Can Help

Just a few weeks and so much has changed. Old ways of living, working, meeting, greeting, and communicating are gone for a while. Friendly handshakes and warm hugs are not healthy or socially acceptable at the moment. My colleagues and I are aware that many people are dealing with changes in their work, school, and […]

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