Street View is turning 15, and the birthday nostalgia is hitting us hard. In 2007, we published our first Street View images of San Francisco, New York, Las Vegas, Miami and Denver. Since then, Street View cars equipped with cameras have captured and shared more than 220 billion Street View images and traveled over 10 million miles — the equivalent of circling the globe more than 400 times! We’ve also captured Street View imagery inside cultural landmarks, high up in space and deep under the ocean. To celebrate Street View’s 15th birthday, we’re sharing 15 amazing Street View collections — including three places the world’s been loving lately, four new collections (consider this our party favor to you), and Street…
Month: May 2022
New – Amazon EC2 C7g Instances, Powered by AWS Graviton3 Processors
I am excited to announce that Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) C7g instances powered by the latest AWS Graviton3 processors that have been available in preview since re:Invent last year are now available for all. Let’s decompose the name C7g: the “C” instance family is designed for compute-intensive workloads. This is the 7th generation of this instance family. And the “g” means it is based on AWS Graviton, the silicon designed by AWS. These instances are the first instances to be powered by the latest generation of AWS Graviton, the Graviton3 processors. As you bring more diverse workloads to the cloud, and as your compute, storage, and networking demands increase at a rapid pace, you are asking us to…
AWS Week In Review – May 23, 2022
This post is part of our Week in Review series. Check back each week for a quick roundup of interesting news and announcements from AWS! This is the right place to quickly learn about recent AWS news from last week, in just about five minutes or less. This week, I have collected a couple of news items that might be of interest to you, the IT professionals, developers, system administrators, or any type of builders that have their hands on the AWS console, the CLI, or that are writing code. Last Week’s Launches The launches that caught my attention last week are the following: EC2 now supports NitroTPM and SecureBoot – A Trusted Platform Module is often a discrete chip…
AWS Backup Now Supports Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP
If you are a long-time reader of this blog, you know that I categorize some posts as “chocolate and peanut butter” in homage to an ancient (1970 or so) series of TV commercials for Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups. Today, I am happy to bring you the latest such post, combining AWS Backup and Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP. Before I dive into the specifics, let’s review each service: AWS Backup helps you to automate and centrally manage your backups (read my post, AWS Backup – Automate and Centrally Manage Your Backups, for a detailed look). After you create policy-driven plans, you can monitor the status of on-going backups, verify compliance, and find/restore backups, all from a central console. We launched…