Today, we’re announcing the general availability of AWS Supply Chain Analytics powered by Amazon QuickSight. This new feature helps you to build custom report dashboards using your data in AWS Supply Chain. With this feature, your business analysts or supply chain managers can perform custom analyses, visualize data, and gain actionable insights for your supply chain management operations. Here’s how it looks: AWS Supply Chain Analytics leverages the AWS Supply Chain data lake and provides Amazon QuickSight embedded authoring tools directly into the AWS Supply Chain user interface. This integration provides you with a unified and configurable experience for creating custom insights, metrics, and key performance indicators (KPIs) for your operational analytics. In addition, AWS Supply Chain Analytics provides prebuilt…
Month: October 2024
Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL Limitless Database is now generally available
Today, we are announcing the general availability of Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL Limitless Database, a new serverless horizontal scaling (sharding) capability of Amazon Aurora. With Aurora PostgreSQL Limitless Database, you can scale beyond the existing Aurora limits for write throughput and storage by distributing a database workload over multiple Aurora writer instances while maintaining the ability to use it as a single database. When we previewed Aurora PostgreSQL Limitless Database at AWS re:Invent 2023, I explained that it uses a two-layer architecture consisting of multiple database nodes in a DB shard group – either routers or shards to scale based on the workload. Routers – Nodes that accept SQL connections from clients, send SQL commands to shards, maintain system-wide consistency, and…
Simplify and enhance Amazon S3 static website hosting with AWS Amplify Hosting
We are announcing an integration between AWS Amplify Hosting and Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3). Now, you can deploy static websites with content stored in your S3 buckets and serve over a content delivery network (CDN) with just a few clicks. AWS Amplify Hosting is a fully managed service for hosting static sites that handles various aspects of deploying a website. It gives you benefits such as custom domain configuration with SSL, redirects, custom headers, and deployment on a globally available CDN powered by Amazon CloudFront. When deploying a static website, Amplify remembers the connection between your S3 bucket and deployed website, so you can easily update your website with a single click when you make changes to website…
Celebrating 10 Years of Amazon ECS: Powering a Decade of Containerized Innovation
Today, we celebrate 10 years of Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) and its incredible journey of pushing the boundaries of what’s possible in the cloud! What began as a solution to streamline running Docker containers on Amazon Web Services (AWS) has evolved into a cornerstone technology, offering both impressive performance and operational simplicity, including a serverless option with AWS Fargate for seamless container orchestration. Over the past decade, Amazon ECS has become a trusted solution for countless organizations, providing the reliability and performance that customers such as SmugMug rely on to power their operations without being bogged down by infrastructure challenges. As Andrew Shieh, Principal Engineer at SmugMug, shares, Amazon ECS has been the “unsung hero” behind their seamless transition…