Introducing a new experience for AWS Systems Manager

Today, I’m excited to introduce a new and improved version of AWS Systems Manager that brings a highly requested cross-account, and cross-Region experience for managing nodes at scale. The new System Manager experience provides centralized visibility of all your managed nodes which include various infrastructure types, such as Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instances, containers, virtual machines on other cloud providers, on-premise servers, and edge Internet of Things (IoT) devices. They are referred to as “managed nodes” when they have the Systems Manager Agent (SSM Agent) installed and are connected to Systems Manager. If an SSM Agent stops working on a node for whatever reason, then Systems Manager loses connection to it and that node is then referred to as…

AWS named as a leader again in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Distributed Hybrid Infrastructure

Gartner published the second Magic Quadrant for Distributed Hybrid Infrastructure (DHI), which includes Amazon Web Services (AWS) as a leader again. AWS has three products in this DHI portfolio: AWS Outposts, AWS Snowball, and AWS Local Zones. In the accompanying Gartner’s Critical Capabilities for DHI, AWS is ranked number one in four out of six use cases evaluated by Gartner—including hybrid infrastructure management, edge computing, assured workloads, and artificial intelligence & machine learning (AI/ML)—and among the top two in the use case of container management. Gartner evaluates 10 DHI providers based on their Ability to Execute, which measures a vendor’s capacity to deliver its products or services effectively, and Completeness of Vision, which assesses a vendor’s understanding of the market…

Improve your app authentication workflow with new Amazon Cognito features

Introduced 10 years ago, Amazon Cognito is a service that helps you implement customer identity and access management (CIAM) in your web and mobile applications. You can use Amazon Cognito for various use cases, from providing your customers to quickly add sign-in and sign-up experiences to your applications and authorization to securing machine-to-machine authentication and enabling role-based access to AWS resources. Today, I’m excited to share a series of significant updates to Amazon Cognito. These enhancements aim to provide you with more flexibility, improved security, and a better user experience for your applications. Here’s a quick summary: A new developer-focused console experience for getting started including the support of integrating with popular application frameworks Introducing Managed Login – a revamped…