Glen Knight

NYC Based IT Professional

Savings Plan Update: Save Up to 17% On Your Lambda Workloads

Late last year I wrote about Savings Plans, and showed you how you could use them to save money when you make a one or three year commitment to use a specified amount (measured in dollars per hour) of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) or AWS Fargate. Savings Plans give you the flexibility to change […]

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New – Multi-Attach for Provisioned IOPS (io1) Amazon EBS Volumes

Starting today, customers running Linux on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) can take advantage of new support for attaching Provisioned IOPS (io1) Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) volumes to multiple EC2 instances. Each EBS volume, when configured with the new Multi-Attach option, can be attached to a maximum of 16 EC2 instances in a single […]

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New: Use AWS CloudFormation StackSets for Multiple Accounts in an AWS Organization

Infrastructure-as-code is the process of managing and creating IT infrastructure through machine-readable text files, such as JSON or YAML definitions or using familiar programming languages, such as Java, Python, or TypeScript. AWS Customers typically uses AWS CloudFormation or the AWS Cloud Development Kit to automate the creation and management of their cloud infrastructure. CloudFormation StackSets […]

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New – Serverless Lens in AWS Well-Architected Tool

When you build and run applications in the cloud, how often are you asking yourself “am I doing this right” ? This is actually a very good question, and to let you get a good answer, we released publicly in 2015 the AWS Well-Architected Framework, a formal approach to compare your workload against our best practices, and get […]

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EC2 Price Reduction in the São Paulo Region (R5 and I3)

I’ve got good news for AWS customers using our South America (São Paulo) Region! Effective February 1, 2020 we are reducing prices for On-Demand, Reserved and Dedicated Instances as follows: All R5 families (R5, R5a, R5d, R5ad) – Up to 25%. All I3 families (I3, I3en) – 13%. The pricing pages have been updated. Questions? […]

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AWS Online Tech Talks for February 2020

Join us for live, online presentations led by AWS solutions architects and engineers. AWS Online Tech Talks cover a range of topics and expertise levels, and feature technical deep dives, demonstrations, customer examples, and live Q&A with AWS experts. Note – All sessions are free and in Pacific Time. Can’t join us live? Access webinar […]

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Registration for Amazon re:MARS 2020 is OPEN ?

Can you believe it? It’s almost time for re:MARS 2020 ! It’ll be from June 16-19 in Las Vegas, NV, with standard pricing at $1999. This year we have an all-new Amazon re:MARS Developer Day for engineers and developers to engage with Amazon product teams. We’ll also have breakout sessions just like last year where leaders, thinkers, […]

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New Desktop Client for AWS Client VPN

We launched AWS Client VPN last year so that you could use your OpenVPN-based clients to securely access your AWS and on-premises networks from anywhere (read Introducing AWS Client VPN to Securely Access AWS and On-Premises Resources to learn more). As a refresher, this is a fully-managed elastic VPN service that scales the number of […]

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Update on Amazon Linux AMI end-of-life

Launched in September 2010, the Amazon Linux AMI has helped numerous customers build Linux-based applications on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2). In order to bring them even more security, stability, and productivity, we introduced Amazon Linux 2 in 2017. Adding many modern features, Amazon Linux 2 is backed by long-term support, and we strongly encourage […]

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AWS DataSync Update – Support for Amazon FSx for Windows File Server

AWS DataSync helps you to move large amounts of data into and out of the AWS Cloud. As I noted in New – AWS DataSync – Automated and Accelerated Data Transfer, our customers use DataSync for their large-scale migration, upload & process, archiving, and backup/DR use cases. Amazon FSx for Windows File Server gives you […]

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