In March of last year, Jeff Barr announced the plan for an AWS Region in Malaysia. Today, I’m pleased to share the general availability of the AWS Asia Pacific (Malaysia) Region with three Availability Zones and API name ap-southeast-5. The AWS Asia Pacific (Malaysia) Region is the first infrastructure Region in Malaysia and the thirteenth Region in Asia Pacific, joining the existing Asia Pacific Regions in Hong Kong, Hyderabad, Jakarta, Melbourne, Mumbai, Osaka, Seoul, Singapore, Sydney, and Tokyo and the Mainland China Beijing and Ningxia Regions. The Petronas Twin Towers in the heart of Kuala Lumpur’s central business district. The new AWS Region in Malaysia will play a pivotal role in supporting the Malaysian government’s strategic Madani Economy Framework. This initiative aims to improve the…
Month: August 2024
How we made our hardware packaging 100% plastic-free
Our packaging for Pixel, Fitbit and Nest devices is 100% plastic free. Here’s how we made beautiful packaging that’s easy to recycle. source https://blog.google/outreach-initiatives/sustainability/google-pixel-nest-fitbit-plastic-free-packaging/
Add macOS to your continuous integration pipelines with AWS CodeBuild
Starting today, you can build applications on macOS with AWS CodeBuild. You can now build artifacts on managed Apple M2 machines that run on macOS 14 Sonoma. AWS CodeBuild is a fully managed continuous integration service that compiles source code, runs tests, and produces ready-to-deploy software packages. Building, testing, signing, and distributing applications for Apple systems (iOS, iPadOS, watchOS, tvOS, and macOS) requires the use of Xcode, which runs exclusively on macOS. When you build for Apple systems in the AWS Cloud, it is very likely you configured your continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipeline to run on Amazon Elastic Cloud Compute (Amazon EC2) Mac instances. Since we launched Amazon EC2 Mac in 2020, I have spent a significant…
AWS Weekly Roundup: G6e instances, Karpenter, Amazon Prime Day metrics, AWS Certifications update and more (August 19, 2024)
You know what I find more exciting than the Amazon Prime Day sale? Finding out how Amazon Web Services (AWS) makes it all happen. Every year, I wait eagerly for Jeff Barr’s annual post to read the chart-topping metrics. The scale never ceases to amaze me. This year, Channy Yun and Jeff Barr bring us behind the scenes of how AWS powered Prime Day 2024 for record-breaking sales. I will let you read the post for full details, but one metric that blows my mind every year is that of Amazon Aurora. On Prime Day, 6,311 Amazon Aurora database instances processed more than 376 billion transactions, stored 2,978 terabytes of data, and transferred 913 terabytes of data. Other news I’m…