Glen Knight

NYC Based IT Professional

Amazon S3 Path Deprecation Plan – The Rest of the Story

Last week we made a fairly quiet (too quiet, in fact) announcement of our plan to slowly and carefully deprecate the path-based access model that is used to specify the address of an object in an S3 bucket. I spent some time talking to the S3 team in order to get a better understanding of […]

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New – The Next Generation (I3en) of I/O-Optimized EC2 Instances

Amazon’s Customer Obsession leadership principle says: Leaders start with the customer and work backwards. They work vigorously to earn and keep customer trust. Although leaders pay attention to competitors, they obsess over customers. Starting from the customer and working backwards means that we do not invent in a vacuum. Instead, we speak directly to our […]

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Learn about AWS Services & Solutions – May AWS Online Tech Talks

Join us this May to learn about AWS services and solutions. The AWS Online Tech Talks are live, online presentations that cover a broad range of topics at varying technical levels. These tech talks, led by AWS solutions architects and engineers, feature technical deep dives, live demonstrations, customer examples, and Q&A with AWS experts. Register […]

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SAP on AWS Update – Customer Case Studies, Scale-Up, Scale-Out, and More

SAP SAPPHIRE NOW 2019 takes place this week in Florida! Many of my AWS colleagues will be there, and they would love to talk to you. Today, I would like to share some customer success stories and give you a brief update on the work that we have been doing to make sure that AWS […]

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Building Serverless Pipelines with Amazon CloudWatch Events

Guest post by AWS Serverless Hero Forrest Brazeal. Forrest is a senior cloud architect at Trek10, Inc., host of the Think FaaS serverless podcast at Trek10, and a regular speaker at workshops and events in the serverless community. Events and serverless go together like baked beans and barbecue. The serverless mindset says to focus on […]

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New – Amazon S3 Batch Operations

AWS customers routinely store millions or billions of objects in individual Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) buckets, taking advantage of S3’s scale, durability, low cost, security, and storage options. These customers store images, videos, log files, backups, and other mission-critical data, and use S3 as a crucial part of their data storage strategy. Batch Operations […]

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Use AWS Transit Gateway & Direct Connect to Centralize and Streamline Your Network Connectivity

Last year I showed you how to Use an AWS Transit Gateway to Simplify Your Network Architecture. As I said at the time: You can connect your existing VPCs, data centers, remote offices, and remote gateways to a managed Transit Gateway, with full control over network routing and security, even if your VPCs, Active Directories, […]

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New – Amazon Managed Blockchain – Create & Manage Scalable Blockchain Networks

Trust is a wonderful thing, and is the basis for almost every business and personal relationship or transaction. In some cases, trust is built up over an extended period of time, reinforced with each successful transaction and seen as an integral part of the relationship. In other situations, there’s no time to accumulate trust and […]

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The AWS DeepRacer League Virtual Circuit is Now Open – Train Your Model Today!

AWS DeepRacer is a 1/18th scale four-wheel drive car with a considerable amount of onboard hardware and software. Starting at re:Invent 2018 and continuing with the AWS Global Summits, you have the opportunity to get hands-on experience with a DeepRacer. At these events, you can train a model using reinforcement learning, and then race it […]

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Now Available – Elastic Fabric Adapter (EFA) for Tightly-Coupled HPC Workloads

We announced Elastic Fabric Adapter (EFA) at re:Invent 2018 and made it available in preview form at the time. During the preview, AWS customers put EFA through its paces on a variety of tightly-coupled HPC workloads, providing us with valuable feedback and helping us to fine-tune the final product. Now Available Today I am happy […]

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