AWS IQ launched in 2019 and has been helping customers worldwide engage thousands of AWS Certified third-party experts and consulting firms for on-demand project work. Whether you need to learn about AWS, plan your project, setup new services, migrate existing applications, or optimize your spend, AWS IQ connects you with experts and consulting firms who can help. You can share your project objectives with a description, receive responses within the AWS IQ application, approve permissions and budget, and will be charged directly through AWS billing. Until yesterday, experts had to reside in the United States to offer their hands-on help on AWS IQ. Today, I’m happy to announce that AWS Certified experts and consulting firms based in the UK and…
Author: Håkan Dahlström
How AWS is Supporting Nonprofits, Governments, and Communities Impacted by Hurricane Ida
AWS Disaster Response Team volunteer Paul Fries runs cable to provide connectivity in a police station that has been converted into a supply distribution center and housing for National Guard troops and FEMA. During the crisis that has resulted in the aftermath of Hurricane Ida, the AWS Disaster Response Team is providing personnel and resources to support our customers, including the Information Technology Disaster Resource Center (ITDRC), St. Bernard Parish government, and Crisis Cleanup. In 2018, Amazon Web Services launched the AWS Disaster Response Program to support governments and nonprofits actively responding to natural disasters. Guided by the belief that technology has the power to solve the world’s most pressing issues, the AWS Disaster Response Team has been working around…
New – Amazon EC2 VT1 Instances for Live Multi-stream Video Transcoding
Global demand for video content has been rapidly increasing and now has the major audiences of Internet and mobile network traffic. Over-the-top streaming services such as Twitch continue to see an explosion of content creators who are seeking live delivery with great image quality, while live event broadcasters are increasingly looking to embrace agile cloud infrastructure to reduce costs without sacrificing reliability, and efficiently scale with demand. Today, I am happy to announce the general availability of Amazon EC2 VT1 instances that are designed to provide the best price performance for multi-stream video transcoding with resolutions up to 4K UHD. These VT1 instances feature Xilinx® Alveo U30 media accelerator transcoding cards with accelerated H.264/AVC and H.265/HEVC codecs and provide up…
Amazon Elasticsearch Service Is Now Amazon OpenSearch Service and Supports OpenSearch 1.0
In 2015, we launched Amazon Elasticsearch Service (Amazon ES), a fully managed service that makes it easy for you to perform interactive log analytics, real-time application monitoring, website search, and more. Amazon ES has been a popular service for log analytics because of its ability to ingest high volumes of log data. Additionally, with UltraWarm and cold storage tiers, you can lower costs to one-tenth of traditional hot storage on Amazon ES. Because Amazon ES integrates with Logstash, Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose, Amazon CloudWatch Logs, and AWS IoT, you can select the secure data ingestion tool that meets your use case requirements. Developers embrace open-source software for many reasons. One of the most important reasons is the freedom to use…