Tag: Jeff Barr

Today I would like to introduce you to AWS Transfer Family web apps, the newest AWS Transfer Family resource. You can create a fully managed, no-code web app that allows authenticated users to list, upload, download, copy, and delete files in specific Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) buckets. Non-developer, line-of-business users inside and outside of your organization can easily exchange file data without the need for desktop clients, scripts, faded instructions on sticky notes, or local IT help. As the web apps administrator, you get full control over authentication, access, and permissions, and can customize the web app with a page title and a favicon. Here is the web app that I created while writing this blog post: I…

The new storage optimized Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) I7ie instances feature up to 120 TB of low latency NVMe storage and 5th generation Intel Xeon Scalable Processors with an all-core turbo frequency of 3.2 GHz. Fueled by 3rd Generation AWS Nitro SSDs, these instances deliver the highest storage density available in the cloud today. When compared to the previous generation of storage optimized instances, they provide: Up to 65% better real-time storage performance per TB Up to 50% lower I/O latency with up to 65% lower latency variability Up to 40% better compute performance Up to twice as many vCPUs and twice as much memory 20% better price-performance The instances are designed to support I/O intensive workloads that…

Observing your Amazon Aurora databases is now a whole lot easier. Instead of spending time setting up telemetry, building dashboards, and configuring alarms, you just open Amazon CloudWatch Database Insights and take a look. With no further setup, you can monitor the health of all of your Amazon Aurora MySQL and PostgreSQL instances in the selected Region: Each of the sections contains a wealth of detail and I’ll get to that in a moment (this may be the ultimate “but wait, there’s more” post). From this view, I can open the filter control on the left and filter the set of instances in a couple of different ways. For example, I can filter for all of the instances running Amazon…

You can now specify a desired completion duration (15 minutes to 48 hours) when you copy an Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) snapshot within or between AWS Regions and/or accounts. This will help you to meet time-based compliance and business requirements for critical workloads. For example: Testing – Distribute fresh data on a timely basis as part of your Test Data Management (TDM) plan. Development – Provide your developers with updated snapshot data on a regular and frequent basis. Disaster Recovery – Ensure that critical snapshots are copied in order to meet a Recovery Point Objective (RPO). Regardless of your use case, this new feature gives you consistent and predictable copies. This does not affect the performance or reliability…