Tag: Jeff Barr

The AWS European Sovereign Cloud will allow government agencies, regulated industries, and the independent software vendors (ISVs) that support them to store sensitive data and run critical workloads on AWS infrastructure that is operated and supported by AWS employees located in and residents of the European Union (EU). The first Region will be located in Germany. Background Late last year we announced the AWS Digital Sovereignty Pledge and made a commitment to offer you (and all AWS customers) the most advanced set of sovereignty controls and features available in the cloud. Since that announcement we have taken several important steps forward in fulfillment of that pledge: May 2023 – We announced that AWS Nitro System had been validated by an…

With just 41 days until AWS re:Invent 2023 opens, I’m doing my best to stay heads-down and focused on working with the entire AWS News Blog team to create plenty of awesome new posts for your reading pleasure! I’ll take a short break this morning to share some of the most exciting launches and other news from last week. Here we go! Last Week’s Launches Here are some of the launches that captured my attention: Amazon EBS – The new Attached EBS Status Check CloudWatch metric lets you monitor the status of all of the Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) volumes attached to a particular Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instance, verifying that the volumes are reachable and…

Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) io2 and io2 Block Express volumes now support storage fencing using NVMe reservations. As I learned while writing this post, storage fencing is used to regulate access to storage for a compute or database cluster, ensuring that just one host in the cluster has permission to write to the volume at any given time. For example, you can set up SQL Server Failover Cluster Instances (FCI) and get higher application availability within a single Availability Zone without the need for database replication. As a quick refresher, io2 Block Express volumes are designed to meet the needs of the most demanding I/O-intensive applications running on Nitro-based Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances. Volumes can…

Looks like it is my turn once again to write the AWS Weekly Roundup. I wrote and published the first one on April 16, 2012 — just 4,165 short day ago! Last Week’s Launches Here are some of the launches that caught my eye last week: R7iz Instances – Optimized for high CPU performance and designed for your memory-intensive workloads, these instances are powered by the fastest 4th Generation Intel Xeon Scalable-based (Sapphire Rapids) instances in the cloud. They are available in eight sizes, with 2 to 128 vCPUs and 16 to 1024 GiB of memory, along with generous allocations of network and EBS bandwidth: vCPUs Memory (GiB) Network Bandwidth EBS Bandwidth r7iz.large 2 16 Up to 12.5 Gbps Up…