Glen Knight

NYC Based IT Professional

Introducing AWS Builder Center: A new home for the AWS builder community

We really love builders at AWS. We’re constantly thinking of new ways to help technical communities thrive and create spaces like AWS Developer Center and community.aws where people can connect and share their knowledge and experiences. Today, we’re announcing AWS Builder Center, a new home for builders to access all builder resources, engage with the […]

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Introducing Oracle Database@AWS for simplified Oracle Exadata migrations to the AWS Cloud

Today, we’re announcing the general availability of Oracle Database@AWS, a new offering for Oracle Exadata workloads, including Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC) within AWS. In the past 14 years, customers had the choice of self-managing Oracle database workloads in the cloud using Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) or using fully managed Amazon Relational Database […]

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AWS Weekly Roundup: Amazon Bedrock API keys, EC2 C8gn instances, Amazon Nova Canvas virtual try-on, and more (July 7, 2025)

Every Monday we tell you about the best releases and blogs that caught our attention last week. This week I’m making an exception to include a release from today: Amazon Bedrock API keys. This new feature simplifies generative AI development by providing direct API authentication without needing to manually configure IAM principals and policies. Amazon […]

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Amazon Nova Canvas update: Virtual try-on and style options now available

Have you ever wished you could quickly visualize how a new outfit might look on you before making a purchase? Or how a piece of furniture would look in your living room? Today, we’re excited to introduce a new virtual try-on capability in Amazon Nova Canvas that makes this possible. In addition, we are adding […]

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Build the highest resilience apps with multi-Region strong consistency in Amazon DynamoDB global tables

While tens of thousands of customers are successfully using Amazon DynamoDB global tables with eventual consistency, we’re seeing emerging needs for even stronger resilience. Many organizations find that the DynamoDB multi-Availability Zone architecture and eventually consistent global tables meet their requirements, but critical applications like payment processing systems and financial services demand more. For these […]

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New Amazon EC2 C8gn instances powered by AWS Graviton4 offering up to 600Gbps network bandwidth

Today, we’re announcing the general availability of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) C8gn network optimized instances powered by AWS Graviton4 processors and the latest 6th generation AWS Nitro Card. EC2 C8gn instances deliver up to 600Gbps network bandwidth, the highest bandwidth among EC2 network optimized instances. You can use C8gn instances to run the […]

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AWS Weekly Roundup: Project Rainier, Amazon CloudWatch investigations, AWS MCP servers, and more (June 30, 2025)

Every time I visit Seattle, the first thing that greets me at the airport is Mount Rainier. Did you know that the most innovative project at Amazon Web Services (AWS) is named after this mountain? Project Rainier is a new project to create what is expected to be the world’s most powerful computer for training […]

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Amazon FSx for OpenZFS now supports Amazon S3 access without any data movement

Starting today, you can attach Amazon S3 Access Points to your Amazon FSx for OpenZFS file systems to access your file data as if it were in Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3). With this new capability, your data in FSx for OpenZFS is accessible for use with a broad range of Amazon Web Services (AWS) […]

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New: Improve Apache Iceberg query performance in Amazon S3 with sort and z-order compaction

You can now use sort and z-order compaction to improve Apache Iceberg query performance in Amazon S3 Tables and general purpose S3 buckets. You typically use Iceberg to manage large-scale analytical datasets in Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) with AWS Glue Data Catalog or with S3 Tables. Iceberg tables support use cases such as […]

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AWS Weekly Roundup: re:Inforce re:Cap, Valkey GLIDE 2.0, Avro and Protobuf or MCP Servers on Lambda, and more (June 23, 2025)

Last week’s hallmark event was the security-focused AWS re:Inforce conference. Now a tradition, the blog team wrote a re:Cap post to summarize the announcements and link to some of the top blog posts. To further summarize, several new security innovations were announced, including enhanced IAM Access Analyzer capabilities, MFA enforcement for root users, and threat […]

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