With just 41 days until AWS re:Invent 2023 opens, I’m doing my best to stay heads-down and focused on working with the entire AWS News Blog team to create plenty of awesome new posts for your reading pleasure! I’ll take a short break this morning to share some of the most exciting launches and other news from last week. Here we go! Last Week’s Launches Here are some of the launches that captured my attention: Amazon EBS – The new Attached EBS Status Check CloudWatch metric lets you monitor the status of all of the Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) volumes attached to a particular Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instance, verifying that the volumes are reachable and…
Month: October 2023
AWS Weekly Roundup: AWS Control Tower, Amazon Bedrock, Amazon OpenSearch Service, and More (October 9, 2023)
As the Northern Hemisphere enjoys early fall and pumpkins take over the local farmers markets and coffee flavors here in the United States, we’re also just 50 days away from re:Invent 2023! But before we officially enter pre:Invent season, let’s have a look at some of last week’s exciting news and announcements. Last Week’s Launches Here are some launches that got my attention: AWS Control Tower – AWS Control Tower released 22 proactive controls and 10 AWS Security Hub detective controls to help you meet regulatory requirements and meet control objectives such as encrypting data in transit, encrypting data at rest, or using strong authentication. For more details and a list of controls, check out the AWS Control Tower user…
AWS ExecLeaders Data and Generative AI Day: Fueling Business Growth with Data and Generative AI
Join us on Thursday, October 5, 2023, for a free-to-attend online event, Data and Generative AI Day. AWS will stream the event simultaneously across multiple platforms, including LinkedIn Live and YouTube. In the realm of generative AI, the power and potential hidden within your organization’s data are more expansive than ever before. Generative AI has the capability to reshape customer interactions, elevate employee productivity, stimulate creative ideation, and drive groundbreaking innovation. However, as a forward-thinking leader, what steps are required to fully harness this data-driven potential and translate it into tangible outcomes? During this half-day event, AWS experts, partners, customers, and leading startups will provide you insights into their efforts to propel innovation using data and generative AI within the…
New – Amazon EC2 C7a Instances Powered By 4th Gen AMD EPYC Processors for Compute Optimized Workloads
We launched the compute optimized Amazon EC2 C6a instances in February 2022 powered by 3rd Gen AMD EPYC (Milan) processors, running at frequencies up to 3.6 GHz. Today, we’re announcing the general availability of new, compute optimized Amazon EC2 C7a instances, powered by the 4th Gen AMD EPYC (Genoa) processors with a maximum frequency of 3.7 GHz, which offer up to 50 percent higher performance compared to C6a instances. You can use this increased performance to process data faster, consolidate workloads, and lower the cost of ownership. C7a instances offer up to 50 percent higher performance compared to C6a instances. These instances are ideal for running compute-intensive workloads such as high-performance web servers, batch processing, ad serving, machine learning, multiplayer…