New – Manage Planned Lifecycle Events on AWS Health

We are announcing new features in AWS Health to help you manage planned lifecycle events for your AWS resources and dynamically track the completion of actions that your team takes at the resource-level to ensure continued smooth operations of your applications. Some examples of planned lifecycle events are an Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) Kubernetes version end of standard support, Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) certificate rotations, and end of support for other open source software, to name a few. These features include: The ability to dynamically track the completion of actions at the resource level where possible, to minimize disruption to applications. Timely visibility into upcoming planned lifecycle events, using notifications at least 90 days in advance…

Amazon Aurora MySQL zero-ETL integration with Amazon Redshift is now generally available

“Data is at the center of every application, process, and business decision,” wrote Swami Sivasubramanian, VP of Database, Analytics, and Machine Learning at AWS, and I couldn’t agree more. A common pattern customers use today is to build data pipelines to move data from Amazon Aurora to Amazon Redshift. These solutions help them gain insights to grow sales, reduce costs, and optimize their businesses. To help you focus on creating value from data instead of preparing data for analysis, we announced Amazon Aurora zero-ETL integration with Amazon Redshift at AWS re:Invent 2022 and in public preview for Amazon Aurora MySQL-Compatible Edition in June 2023. Now generally available: Amazon Aurora MySQL zero-ETL integration with Amazon Redshift Today, we announced the general…

New – Create application-consistent snapshots using Amazon Data Lifecycle Manager and custom scripts

Amazon Data Lifecycle Manager now supports the use of pre-snapshot and post-snapshot scripts embedded in AWS Systems Manager documents. You can use these scripts to ensure that Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) snapshots created by Data Lifecycle Manager are application-consistent. Scripts can pause and resume I/O operations, flush buffered data to EBS volumes, and so forth. As part of this launch we are also publishing a set of detailed blog posts that show you how to use this feature with self-managed relational databases and Windows Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS). Data Lifecycle Manager (DLM) Recap As a quick recap, Data Lifecycle Manager helps you to automate the creation, retention, and deletion of Amazon EBS volume snapshots. Once you have…

AWS Weekly Roundup—Reserve GPU capacity for short ML workloads, Finch is GA, and more—November 6, 2023

The year is coming to an end, and there are only 50 days until Christmas and 21 days to AWS re:Invent! If you are in Las Vegas, come and say hi to me. I will be around the Serverlesspresso booth most of the time. Last week’s launches Here are some launches that got my attention during the previous week. Amazon EC2 – Amazon EC2 announced Capacity Blocks for ML. This means that you can now reserve GPU compute capacity for your short-duration ML workloads. Learn more about this launch on the feature page and announcement blog post. Finch – Finch is now generally available. Finch is an open source tool for local container development on macOS (using Intel or Apple Silicon).…