Introducing Amazon EC2 high memory U7i Instances for large in-memory databases (preview)

The new U7i instances are designed to support large, in-memory databases including SAP HANA, Oracle, and SQL Server. Powered by custom fourth generation Intel Xeon Scalable Processors (Sapphire Rapids), the instances are now available in multiple AWS regions in preview form, in the US West (Oregon), Asia Pacific (Seoul), and Europe (Frankfurt) AWS Regions, as follows: Instance Name vCPUs Memory (DDR5) EBS Bandwidth Network Bandwidth u7in-16tb.224xlarge 896 16,384 GiB 100 Gbps 100 Gbps u7in-24tb.224xlarge 896 24,576 GiB 100 Gbps 100 Gbps u7in-32tb.224xlarge 896 32,768 GiB 100 Gbps 100 Gbps We are also working on a smaller instance: Instance Name vCPUs Memory (DDR5) EBS Bandwidth Network Bandwidth u7i-12tb.224xlarge 896 12,288 GiB 60 Gbps 100 Gbps Here’s what 32 TiB of memory…

Amazon Detective adds new capabilities to accelerate and improve your cloud security investigations

Today, Amazon Detective adds four new capabilities to help you save time and strengthen your security operations. First, Detective investigations for IAM help security analysts investigate AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) objects, such as users and roles, for indicators of compromise (IoCs) to determine potential involvement in known tactics from the MITRE ATT&CK framework. These automatic investigations are available in the Detective section of the AWS Management Console and through a new API to automate your analysis or incident response or to send these findings to other systems, such as AWS Security Hub or your SIEM. Second, Detective finding group summaries uses generative artificial intelligence (AI) to enrich its investigations. It automatically analyzes finding groups and provides insights in…

Top announcements of AWS re:Invent 2023

Welcome to Las Vegas, where excitement fills the air for the premier AWS event of the year – re:Invent 2023! Happening Nov. 27 – Dec. 1, re:Invent 2023 offers keynotes, training, Innovation Talks, AWS Builder Labs, and much more to inspire you on your cloud journey. Can’t make it in person? Tune in to the live streams of the keynotes, and check back here as we provide daily updates on the most exciting product launches. If you don’t want to miss a thing, here are a few more ways to keep in touch: AWS News Blog What’s New The Official AWS Podcast AWS On Air (This post was last updated: 5:05 p.m. PST, Nov. 26, 2023.) Use natural language to…

Increase collaboration and securely share cloud knowledge with AWS re:Post Private

Today we’re launching AWS re:Post Private, a fully managed knowledge service to accelerate cloud adoption, improve productivity, and drive innovation. re:Post Private allows organizations to increase collaboration and access knowledge resources built for your cloud community. It includes curated collections of technical content and training materials from AWS. The content is tailored specifically for your organization’s use cases, along with private discussion and collaboration forums for the members of your organization and your AWS account team. As its name implies, you can think of it as a private version of AWS re:Post, with private content and access limited to people that belong to your organization and your AWS Account team. Organizations of all sizes and verticals are increasingly moving their…