With AWS App Runner, you can quickly deploy web applications and APIs at any scale. You can start with your source code or a container image, and App Runner will fully manage all infrastructure including servers, networking, and load balancing for your application. If you want, App Runner can also configure a deployment pipeline for you. Starting today, App Runner enables your services to communicate with databases and other applications hosted in an Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC). For example, you can now connect App Runner services to databases in Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS), Redis or Memcached caches in Amazon ElastiCache, or your own applications running in Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS), Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS), Amazon…
Month: February 2022
NEW – Replicate Existing Objects with Amazon S3 Batch Replication
Starting today, you can replicate existing Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) objects and synchronize your buckets using the new Amazon S3 Batch Replication feature. Amazon S3 Replication supports several customer use cases. For example, you can use it to minimize latency by maintaining copies of your data in AWS Regions geographically closer to your users, to meet compliance and data sovereignty requirements, and to create additional resiliency for disaster recovery planning. S3 Replication is a fully managed, low-cost feature that replicates newly uploaded objects between buckets. The buckets can belong to the same or different accounts. Objects may be replicated to a single destination bucket or to multiple destination buckets. Destination buckets can be in different AWS Regions (Cross-Region…
Get a slice of these Google Maps pizza trends
With all of the change we’ve experienced over the past couple of years, one thing remains constant … people’s love for pizza. In fact, pizza was the top-searched dish on Google Maps during every month of 2021 in the U.S. To celebrate National Pizza Day on February 9, we’ve compiled some not-so-cheesy Google Maps pizza trends so you can get a slice of the action: In garlic crust we trust. For the second year in a row, Domino’s Pizza remains the top searched pizza spot in the U.S. Pizza cravin’ in New Haven. As of February 2022, Connecticut is the state with the most pizzerias per capita. New Jersey comes in at a close second. A not-so-meaty New York Slice.…
Demonstrate your AWS Cloud Storage knowledge and skills with new digital badges!
Are you a cloud storage professional or an on-premises storage pro who’s curious about cloud storage? Are you interested in demonstrating your AWS Storage knowledge and skills with potential employers and your community of peers? If so, I’d like to bring to your attention the recent launch of digital badges aligned to Learning Plans for Block Storage and Object Storage on AWS Skill Builder. In this 2021 blog post by Indeed, cloud-computing is the number one in-demand skill employers are looking for. The new, verifiable, digital badges are available to everyone who scores at least 80 percent in the assessments associated with Learning Plans. The badges prove your knowledge and skills for Object Storage and/or Block Storage in the AWS…