We often talk about the Pace of Innovation at AWS, and share the results in this blog, in the AWS What’s New page, and in our weekly AWS on Air streams. Today I would like to talk about a slightly different kind of innovation, the kind that happens behind the scenes. Each AWS customer uses a different mix of services, and uses those services in unique ways. Every service is instrumented and monitored, and the team responsible for designing, building, running, scaling, and evolving the service pays continuous attention to all of the resulting metrics. The metrics provide insights into how the service is being used, how it performs under load, and in many cases highlights areas for optimization in…
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New Graviton3-Based General Purpose (m7g) and Memory-Optimized (r7g) Amazon EC2 Instances
We’ve come a long way since the launch of the m1.small instance in 2006, adding instances with additional memory, compute power, and your choice of Intel, AMD, or Graviton processors. The original general-purpose “one size fits all” instance has evolved into six families, each one optimized for specific uses cases, with over 600 generally available instances in all. New M7g and R7g Today I am happy to tell you about the newest Amazon EC2 instance types, the M7g and the R7g. Both types are powered by the latest generation AWS Graviton3 processors, and are designed to deliver up to 25% better performance than the equivalent sixth-generation (M6g and R6g) instances, making them the best performers in EC2. The M7g instances…
AWS Week in Review – January 23, 2023
Welcome to my first AWS Week in Review of 2023. As usual, it has been a busy week, so let’s dive right in: Last Week’s Launches Here are some launches that caught my eye last week: Amazon Connect – You can now deliver long lasting, persistent chat experiences for your customers, with the ability to resume previous conversations including context, metadata, and transcripts. Learn more. Amazon RDS for MariaDB – You can now enforce the use of encrypted (SSL/TLS) connections to your databases instances that are running Amazon RDS for MariaDB. Learn more. Amazon CloudWatch – You can now use Metric Streams to send metrics across AWS accounts on a continuous, near real-time basis, within a single AWS Region. Learn…
Heads-Up: Amazon S3 Security Changes Are Coming in April of 2023
Starting in April of 2023 we will be making two changes to Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) to put our latest best practices for bucket security into effect automatically. The changes will begin to go into effect in April and will be rolled out to all AWS Regions within weeks. Once the changes are in effect for a target Region, all newly created buckets in the Region will by default have S3 Block Public Access enabled and access control lists (ACLs) disabled. Both of these options are already console defaults and have long been recommended as best practices. The options will become the default for buckets that are created using the S3 API, S3 CLI, the AWS SDKs, or…