Tag: Jeff Barr

We are launching two new features for AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) Access Analyzer today: Unused Access Analyzer – A new analyzer that continuously monitors roles and users looking for permissions that are granted but not actually used. Central security teams can take advantage of a dashboard view that will help them to find the accounts that can most benefit from a review of unused permissions, roles, and IAM users. Custom Policy Checks – Validation that newly authored policies do not grant additional (and perhaps unintended) permissions. You can exercise tighter control over your IAM policies and accelerate the process of moving AWS applications from development to production by adding automated policy reviews to your CI/CD pipelines and custom…

The new Amazon WorkSpaces Thin Client improves end-user and IT staff productivity with cost-effective, secure, easy-to-manage access to virtual desktops. The devices are preconfigured and shipped directly to the end user, ready to deploy, connect, and use. Here’s my testing setup: The Thin Client is a small cube that connects directly to a monitor, keyboard, mouse, and other USB peripherals such as headsets, microphones, and cameras. With the optional hub it can also drive a second monitor. The administrator can create environments that give users access to Amazon WorkSpaces, Amazon WorkSpaces Web, or Amazon AppStream 2.0, with multiple options for managing user identities and credentials using Active Directory. Thin Clients in action As a very long-time user of Amazon WorkSpaces…

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…

We are launching a preview of a new AWS Glue Data Quality feature that will help to improve your data quality by using machine learning to detect statistical anomalies and unusual patterns. You get deep insights into data quality issues, data quality scores, and recommendations for rules that you can use to continuously monitor for anomalies, all without having to write any code. Data quality counts AWS customers already build data integration pipelines to extract and transform data. They set up data quality rules to ensure that the resulting data is of high quality and can be used to make accurate business decisions. In many cases, these rules assess the data based on criteria that were chosen and locked in…