Replication failback and increased IOPS are new for Amazon EFS

Today, Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) has introduced two new capabilities: Replication failback – Failback support for EFS replication makes it easier and more cost-effective to synchronize changes between EFS file systems when performing disaster recovery (DR) workflows. You can now quickly replicate incremental changes from your secondary back to your primary file system after disaster events and other DR-related activities. Increased IOPS – Amazon EFS now supports up to 250,000 read IOPS and up to 50,000 write IOPS per file system, making it easier to run more IOPS-heavy workloads at any scale for virtual servers, containers, and serverless functions that require shared storage. Let’s see more in depth how these work in practice. Introducing Amazon EFS replication failback…

Use natural language to query Amazon CloudWatch logs and metrics (preview)

To make it easy to interact with your operational data, Amazon CloudWatch is introducing today natural language query generation for Logs and Metrics Insights. With this capability, powered by generative artificial intelligence (AI), you can describe in English the insights you are looking for, and a Logs or Metrics Insights query will be automatically generated. This feature provides three main capabilities for CloudWatch Logs and Metrics Insights: Generate new queries from a description or a question to help you get started easily. Query explanation to help you learn the language including more advanced features. Refine existing queries using guided iterations. Let’s see how these work in practice with a few examples. I’ll cover logs first and then metrics. Generate CloudWatch…

Check your AWS Free Tier usage programmatically with a new API

Starting today, you can check your usage of the AWS Free Tier using the new AWS Free Tier API. You can use the API directly with the AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI) or integrate it into an application with the AWS SDKs. The AWS Free Tier program provides you with the ability to explore and try out AWS services free of charge up to specified limits for each service. The AWS Free Tier includes three different types of offerings: Always free offers allow customers to use a service for free up to specified limits as long as they are an AWS customer. 12 months free offers allow customers to use a service for free up to specified limits for one…

Amazon CloudWatch Logs now offers automated pattern analytics and anomaly detection

Searching through log data to find operational or business insights often feels like looking for a needle in a haystack. It usually requires you to manually filter and review individual log records. To help you with that, Amazon CloudWatch has added new capabilities to automatically recognize and cluster patterns among log records, extract noteworthy content and trends, and notify you of anomalies using advanced machine learning (ML) algorithms trained using decades of Amazon and AWS operational data. Specifically, CloudWatch now offers the following: The Patterns tab on the Logs Insights page finds recurring patterns in your query results and lets you analyze them in detail. This makes it easier to find what you’re looking for and drill down into new…