In November 2023, we announced Amazon CloudWatch Application Signals, an AWS built-in application performance monitoring (APM) solution, to solve the complexity associated with monitoring performance of distributed systems for applications hosted on Amazon EKS, Amazon ECS, and Amazon EC2. Application Signals automatically correlates telemetry across metrics, traces, and logs, to speed up troubleshooting and reduce application disruption. By providing an integrated experience for analyzing performance in the context of your applications, Application Signals gives you improved productivity focusing on the applications that support your most critical business functions. Today we’re announcing the availability of Application Signals for AWS Lambda to eliminate the complexities of manual setup and performance issues required to assess application health for Lambda functions. With CloudWatch Application…
Tag: Veliswa Boya
Run your compute-intensive and general purpose workloads sustainably with the new Amazon EC2 C8g, M8g instances
Today we’re announcing general availability of the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) C8g and M8g instances. C8g instances are AWS Graviton4 based and are ideal for compute-intensive workloads such as high performance computing (HPC), batch processing, gaming, video encoding, scientific modeling, distributed analytics, CPU-based machine learning (ML) inference, and ad serving. Also Graviton4 based, M8g instances provide the best price performance for general purpose workloads. M8g instances are ideal for applications such as application servers, microservices, gaming servers, mid-size data stores, and caching fleets. Now looking at some of the improvements that we have made available in both these instances. C8g and M8g instances offer larger instance sizes with up to three times more vCPUs (up to 48xl), three…
AWS Weekly Roundup: S3 Conditional writes, AWS Lambda, JAWS Pankration, and more (August 26, 2024)
The AWS User Group Japan (JAWS-UG) hosted JAWS PANKRATION 2024 themed ‘No Border’. This is a 24-hour online event where AWS Heroes, AWS Community Builders, AWS User Group leaders, and others from around the world discuss topics ranging from cultural discussions to technical talks. One of the speakers at this event, Kevin Tuei, an AWS Community Builder based in Kenya, highlighted the importance of building in public and sharing your knowledge with others, a very fitting talk for this kind of event. Last week’s launches Here are some launches that got my attention during the previous week. Amazon S3 now supports conditional writes – We’ve added support for conditional writes in Amazon S3 which check for existence of an object before…
Plan your advertising campaigns with Amazon Marketing Cloud on AWS Clean Rooms, now generally available
Today, we are announcing the general availability of Amazon Marketing Cloud (AMC) on AWS Clean Rooms to help advertisers use their first-party signals to collaborate with Amazon Ads unique signals. With this collaboration, advertisers can generate differentiated insights, discover new audiences, and enable advertising campaign planning, activation, and measurement use cases, all without having to move their underlying signals outside of their AWS account. With AMC on AWS Clean Rooms, customers can easily prepare their data, match and create audiences, use custom insights to activate more relevant advertising campaigns with Amazon Ads, and measure return on ad spend. All of this can be accomplished from the most secure cloud computing environment available today. Advertisers continually strive to reach new audiences…