Glen Knight

NYC Based IT Professional

Announcing on-demand data replication for Amazon FSx for OpenZFS

Today we’re adding to Amazon FSx for OpenZFS the capability to send a snapshot from a file system to another file system in your account. You can trigger the copy with one single API call or CLI command, and we take care of the rest. You don’t need to use commands like rsync and monitor […]

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Introducing Amazon CloudFront KeyValueStore: A low-latency datastore for CloudFront Functions

Amazon CloudFront allows you to securely deliver static and dynamic content with low latency and high transfer speeds. With CloudFront Functions, you can perform latency-sensitive customizations for millions of requests per second. For example, you can use CloudFront Functions to modify headers, normalize cache keys, rewrite URLs, or authorize requests. Today, we are introducing CloudFront […]

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AWS Weekly Roundup – EC2 DL2q instances, PartyRock, Amplify’s 6th birthday, and more – November 20, 2023

Last week I saw an astonishing 160+ new service launches. There were so many updates that we decided to publish a weekly roundup again. This continues the same innovative pace of the previous week as we are getting closer to AWS re:Invent 2023. Our News Blog team is also finalizing new blog posts for re:Invent […]

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Happy anniversary, Amazon CloudFront: 15 years of evolution and internet advancements

I can’t believe it’s been 15 years since Amazon CloudFront was launched! When Amazon S3 became available in 2006, developers loved the flexibility and started to build a new kind of globally distributed applications where storage was not a bottleneck. These applications needed to be performant, reliable, and cost-efficient for every user on the planet. […]

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New – Long-Form voices for Amazon Polly

We are launching three new voices for Polly. Powered by a new long-form engine, the voices are natural and expressive, with appropriate pauses, emphasis, and tone. New Voices The new long-form voices are perfect for blog posts, news articles, training videos, and marketing content. The underlying Machine Learning model extracts meaning from the text, learning […]

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Build AI apps with PartyRock and Amazon Bedrock

If you are ready to learn more about Generative AI while having fun and building cool stuff, check out PartyRock.aws . You can experiment, learn all about prompt engineering, build mini-apps, and share them with your friends — all without writing any code or creating an AWS account. You can also start with an app […]

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New – Amazon EBS Snapshot Lock

You can now lock individual Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) snapshots in order to enforce better compliance with your data retention policies. Locked snapshots cannot be deleted until the lock is expired or released, giving you the power to keep critical backups safe from accidental or malicious deletion, including ransomware attacks. The Need for […]

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New – Multi-account search in AWS Resource Explorer

With AWS Resource Explorer, you can search for and discover your resources, such as Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances, Amazon Kinesis data streams, and Amazon DynamoDB tables, across AWS Regions. Starting today, you can also search across accounts within your organization. It takes just a few minutes to turn on and configure Resource […]

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New – AWS Audit Manager now supports first third-party GRC integration

Auditing is a continuous and ongoing process, and every audit includes the collection of evidence. The evidence gathered helps confirm the state of resources and it’s used to demonstrate that the customer’s policies, procedures, and activities (controls), are in place, and that the control has been operational for a specified period of time. AWS Audit […]

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AWS Glue Data Catalog now supports automatic compaction of Apache Iceberg tables

Today, we’re making available a new capability of AWS Glue Data Catalog to allow automatic compaction of transactional tables in the Apache Iceberg format. This allows you to keep your transactional data lake tables always performant. Data lakes were initially designed primarily for storing vast amounts of raw, unstructured, or semi structured data at a […]

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