New – AWS CloudTrail Lake Supports Ingesting Activity Events From Non-AWS Sources

In November 2013, we announced AWS CloudTrail to track user activity and API usage. AWS CloudTrail enables auditing, security monitoring, and operational troubleshooting. CloudTrail records user activity and API calls across AWS services as events. CloudTrail events help you answer the questions of “who did what, where, and when?”. Recently we have improved the ability for you to simplify your auditing and security analysis by using AWS CloudTrail Lake. CloudTrail Lake is a managed data lake for capturing, storing, accessing, and analyzing user and API activity on AWS for audit, security, and operational purposes. You can aggregate and immutably store your activity events, and run SQL-based queries for search and analysis. We have heard your feedback that aggregating activity information…

New – Deployment Pipelines Reference Architecture and Reference Implementations

Today, we are launching a new reference architecture and a set of reference implementations for enterprise-grade deployment pipelines. A deployment pipeline automates the building, testing, and deploying of applications or infrastructures into your AWS environments. When you deploy your workloads to the cloud, having deployment pipelines is key to gaining agility and lowering time to market. When I talk with you at conferences or on social media, I frequently hear that our documentation and tutorials are good resources to get started with a new service or a new concept. However, when you want to scale your usage or when you have complex or enterprise-grade use cases, you often lack resources to dive deeper. This is why we have created over…

AWS Week in Review – January 30, 2023

This week’s review post comes to you from the road, having just wrapped up sponsorship of NDC London. While there we got to speak to many .NET developers, both new and experienced with AWS, and all eager to learn more. Thanks to everyone who stopped by our expo booth to chat or ask questions to the team! Last Week’s LaunchesMy team will be back on the road to our next events soon, but first, here are just some launches that caught my attention while I was at the expo booth last week: General availability of Porting Advisor for Graviton: AWS Graviton2 processors are custom designed, Arm64, processors, that deliver increased price performance over comparable x86-64 processors. They’re suitable for a…

Now Open — AWS Asia Pacific (Melbourne) Region in Australia

Following up on Jeff’s post on the announcement of the Melbourne Region, today I’m pleased to share the general availability of the AWS Asia Pacific (Melbourne) Region with three Availability Zones and API name ap-southeast-4. The AWS Asia Pacific (Melbourne) Region is the second infrastructure Region in Australia, in addition to the Asia Pacific (Sydney) Region, and 12th the twelfth Region in Asia Pacific, joining existing Rregions in Singapore, Tokyo, Seoul, Mumbai, Hong Kong, Osaka, Jakarta, Hyderabad, Sydney, and Mainland China Beijing and Ningxia Regions. Melbourne city historic building: Flinders Street Station built of yellow sandstone AWS in Australia: Long-Standing History In November 2012, AWS established a presence in Australia with the AWS Asia Pacific (Sydney) Region. Since then, AWS has…