Tag: Jeff Barr

You can now create Multi-AZ FSx for ONTAP file systems in VPCs that have been shared with you by other accounts in the same AWS Organization. This highly requested feature enables a clean separation of duties between network administrators and storage administrators, and makes it possible to create storage that’s durable, highly available, and accessible from multiple VPCs. Shared VPC support Before today’s launch, you had the ability to create Single-AZ FSx for ONTAP file systems in subnets that were shared with you by another AWS account, as well as both Single – and Multi-AZ file systems in subnets that you own. With today’s launch you can now do the same for file systems in multiple Availability Zones. Multi-AZ FSx…

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…