New – Snowball Edge Storage Optimized Devices with More Storage and Bandwidth

AWS Snow Family family devices are used to cost-effectively move data to the cloud and to process data at the edge. The enhanced Snowball Edge Storage Optimized devices are designed for your petabyte-scale data migration projects, with 210 terabytes of NVMe storage and the ability to transfer up to 1.5 gigabytes of data per second. The devices also include several connectivity options: 10GBASE-T, SFP48, and QSFP28. Large Data Migration In order to make your migration as smooth and efficient as possible, we now have a well-defined Large Data Migration program. As part of this program, we will work with you to make sure that your site is able to support rapid data transfer, and to set up a proof-of-concept migration.…

AWS Week in Review – AWS Wickr, Amazon Redshift, Generative AI, and More – May 29, 2023

This edition of Week in Review marks the end of the month of May. In addition, we just finished all of the in-person AWS Summits in Asia-Pacific and Japan starting from AWS Summit Sydney and AWS Summit Tokyo in April to AWS Summit ASEAN, AWS Summit Seoul, and AWS Summit Mumbai in May. Thank you to everyone who attended our AWS Summits in APJ, especially the AWS Heroes, AWS Community Builders, and AWS User Group leaders, for your collaboration in supporting activities at AWS Summit events. Last Week’s Launches Here are some launches that caught my attention last week: AWS Wickr is now HIPAA eligible — AWS Wickr is an end-to-end encrypted enterprise messaging and collaboration tool that enables one-to-one and…

AWS Week in Review – AWS Documentation Updates, Amazon EventBridge is Faster, and More – May 22, 2023

Here are your AWS updates from the previous 7 days. Last week I was in Turin, Italy for CloudConf, a conference I’ve had the pleasure to participate in for the last 10 years. AWS Hero Anahit Pogosova was also there sharing a few serverless tips in front of a full house. Here’s a picture I took from the last row during her keynote. On Thursday, May 25, I’ll be at the AWS Community Day in Dublin to celebrate the 10 years of the local AWS User Group. Say hi if you’re there! Last Week’s Launches Last week was packed with announcements! Here are the launches that got my attention: Amazon SageMaker – Geospatial capabilities are now generally available with security…

Amazon SageMaker Geospatial Capabilities Now Generally Available with Security Updates and More Use Case Samples

At AWS re:Invent 2022, we previewed Amazon SageMaker geospatial capabilities, allowing data scientists and machine learning (ML) engineers to build, train, and deploy ML models using geospatial data. Geospatial ML with Amazon SageMaker supports access to readily available geospatial data, purpose-built processing operations and open source libraries, pre-trained ML models, and built-in visualization tools with Amazon SageMaker’s geospatial capabilities. During the preview, we had lots of interest and great feedback from customers. Today, Amazon SageMaker geospatial capabilities are generally available with new security updates and additional sample use cases. Introducing Geospatial ML features with SageMaker Studio To get started, use the quick setup to launch Amazon SageMaker Studio in the US West (Oregon) Region. Make sure to use the default…