Glen Knight

NYC Based IT Professional

In the Works – New AWS Region in Zurich, Switzerland

Earlier this year, we launched the new AWS Region in Italy and have plans for three more AWS Regions in Indonesia, Japan, and Spain. Coming to Switzerland in 2022 Today, I’m happy to announce that the AWS Europe (Zurich) Region is in the works. It will open in the second half of 2022 with three […]

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New – Application Load Balancer Support for End-to-End HTTP/2 and gRPC

Thanks to its efficiency and support for numerous programming languages, gRPC is a popular choice for microservice integrations and client-server communications. gRPC is a high performance remote procedure call (RPC) framework using HTTP/2 for transport and Protocol Buffers to describe the interface. To make it easier to use gRPC with your applications, Application Load Balancer (ALB) […]

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AWS Nitro Enclaves – Isolated EC2 Environments to Process Confidential Data

When I first told you about the AWS Nitro System, I said: The Nitro system is a rich collection of building blocks that can be assembled in many different ways, giving us the flexibility to design and rapidly deliver EC2 instance types with an ever-broadening selection of compute, storage, memory, and networking options. To date, […]

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Apple’s WWDC Keynote updates – Powered by Amazon S3

If you are following the hype of iPhone and Leopard, then you would know that WWDC’s Keynote is so inevitable. Jon Henshaw and Tyler Hall from Sitening is blogging live from Keynote room (10:00AM) as I type this post up. Its powered by Amazon S3. You can get Steve Jobs’ Keynote updates here This demonstrates […]

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Amazon UK Associates Blog

The Amazon.co.uk associates team has a nice blog. Recent topics include monthly payments of associates fees, dealing with foreign bank accounts, self-optimizing links with discount stickers, and information on 13-digit ISBNs. Update: The Amazon.de associates team also has one! — Jeff; Source: AWS News

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Amazon Store Manager

Stringer Software Solutions has introduced version two of their Amazon Store Manager product. This freely downloadable product is described as “Still easy to use, but much more powerful. Installs in minutes and lets you run your Amazon sites easily.” There is also a test store. Source: AWS News

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Introducing Amazon SNS FIFO – First-In-First-Out Pub/Sub Messaging

When designing a distributed software architecture, it is important to define how services exchange information. For example, the use of asynchronous communication decouples components and simplifies scaling, reducing the impact of changes and making it easier to release new features. The two most common forms of asynchronous service-to-service communication are message queues and publish/subscribe messaging: With […]

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Amazon Prime Day 2020 – Powered by AWS

Tipped off by a colleague in Denmark, I bought the LEGO Star Wars Stormtrooper Helmet, which turned out to be a Prime Day best-seller! As I like to do every year, I would like to share a few of the many ways that AWS helped to make Prime Day a reality for our customers. Back […]

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Public Preview – AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry

It took me a while to figure out what observability was all about. A year or two I asked around and my colleagues told me that I needed to follow Charity Majors and to read her blog (done, and done). Just this week, Charity tweeted: Kislay’s tweet led to his blog post, Observing is not […]

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New – Use AWS PrivateLink to Access AWS Lambda Over Private AWS Network

AWS Lambda is a serverless computing service that lets you run code without provisioning or managing servers. You simply upload your code and Lambda does all the work to execute and scale your code for high availability. Many AWS customers today use this serverless computing platform to significantly improve their productivity while developing and operating […]

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