Today we are making Amazon MSK Serverless generally available to help you reduce even more the operational overhead of managing an Apache Kafka cluster by offloading the capacity planning and scaling to AWS. In May 2019, we launched Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka to help our customers stream data using Apache Kafka. Apache Kafka is an open-source platform that enables customers to capture streaming data like clickstream events, transactions, and IoT events. Apache Kafka is a common solution for decoupling applications that produce streaming data (producers) from those consuming the data (consumers). Amazon MSK makes it easy to ingest and process streaming data in real time with fully managed Apache Kafka clusters. Amazon MSK reduces the work needed to…
New – Storage-Optimized Amazon EC2 Instances (I4i) Powered by Intel Xeon Scalable (Ice Lake) Processors
Over the years we have released multiple generations of storage-optimized Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances including the HS1 (2012) , D2 (2015), I2 (2013) , I3 (2017), I3en (2019), D3/D3en (2020), and Im4gn/Is4gen (2021). These instances are used to host high-performance real-time relational databases, distributed file systems, data warehouses, key-value stores, and more. New I4i Instances Today I am happy to introduce the new I4i instances, powered by the latest generation Intel Xeon Scalable (Ice Lake) Processors with an all-core turbo frequency of 3.5 GHz. The instances offer up to 30 TB of NVMe storage using AWS Nitro SSD devices that are custom-built by AWS, and are designed to minimize latency and maximize transactions per second (TPS) on…
New AWS Wavelength Zone in Toronto – The First in Canada
Wireless communication has put us closer to each other. 5G networks increase the reach of what we can achieve to new use cases that need end-to-end low latency. With AWS Wavelength, you can deploy AWS compute and storage services within telecommunications providers’ data centers at the edge of the 5G networks. Your applications can then deliver single-digit millisecond latencies to mobile devices and end users and, at the same time, seamlessly access AWS services in the closest AWS Region. For example, low latency enables new use cases such as: Delivery of high-resolution and high-fidelity live video streaming. Improved experience for augmented/virtual reality (AR/VR) applications. Running machine learning (ML) inference at the edge for applications in medical diagnostics, retail, and factories.…
AWS Week in Review – April 25, 2022
This post is part of our Week in Review series. Check back each week for a quick roundup of interesting news and announcements from AWS! The first in this year’s series of AWS Summits took place in San Francisco this past week and we had a bunch of great announcements. Let’s take a closer look… Last Week’s Launches Here are some launches that caught my eye this week: AWS Migration Hub Orchestrator – Building on AWS Migration Hub (launched in 2017), this service helps you to reduce migration costs by automating manual tasks, managing dependencies between tools, and providing better visibility into the migration progress. It makes use of workflow templates that you can modify and extend, and includes a…