Provides infrastructure layer compute capabilities, including both bare metal and virtual servers with various optimizations includins compute, memory, IO, and disk. Also supports accelerations options such as GPUs, FPGAs, Inferentia and Trainium.
Provides image recognition capability for images (in batch or real-time) and video that provides a analysis of the content such as real-world objects, faces, celebrities, and path mapping.
Provides a publish/subscribe notification service with multiple subscription types including Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS), Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose, AWS Lambda, generic HTTPS endpoints, SMS and email.
A serverless, fully-managed, message queue service that supports producing, store, and consuming messages and enables loose coupling between applications.
Provides private networking capability spanning multiple availability zones and supporting subnets, routing, network access control groups, security groups and gateways.
Provides tracing of service invocations in distributed applications for observability, allowing users to diagnose issues or optimize their service interactions.
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On this day - January 2nd
Posted 2023-01-02
What happened on January 2nd regarding the AWS Cloud?
This page covers new service announcements, service improvements, and major events from 2022, 2019, 2014, 2013 and 2009, and the Quiz of the Day which covers topics related to these announcements.
A total of 7 announcements were made on January 2nd:
There was just one announcement on January 2nd in 2009.
Requester Pays Model launched for Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3)
With this new capability, objects in an S3 buckets may be flagged as “requester pays” and
when properly formed requests are received, the cost of accessing the data to allocated to the requester rather than the provider.
There was just one announcement on January 2nd in 2013.
Amazon Elasticache Auto Discovery client for PHP accounced
PHP applications using Auto Discover will automatically discover cache nodes when the nodes are added to or removed from an Amazon ElastiCache cluster.
Note that the press release also mentions a Java client, but does not state whether the auto discovery feature is availalble for Java, and it makes no mention of Elasticache for Redis.
There was just one announcement on January 2nd in 2014.
Auto Scaling Group enhancements
Several new enhancements were added around Amazon EC2 instances and Auto Scaling Groups:
The ability to create a new Auto Scaling Group “launch configuration” based on a running EC2 instance.
The ability to attach a running EC2 instance to an existing Auto Scaling Group.
The ability to create a new Auto Scaling Group based on a running EC2 instance, which also creates a “launch configuration” and attach the instance to the group.
Visibility into limits (now called quotas) on Auto Scaling Groups and launch configurations.
Additional settings for Amazon Elastic Block Storage (EBS) volumes.
Provides infrastructure layer compute capabilities, including both bare metal and virtual servers with various optimizations includins compute, memory, IO, and disk. Also supports accelerations options such as GPUs, FPGAs, Inferentia and Trainium.
Supports private Alexa skills that can be used in a business environment
API Gateway announces SLA of 99.95%
For all regions where the Amazon API Gateway is available, AWS agrees that during any billing cycle they will use commercially reasonable efforts to ensure an uptime of at least 99.95%. Customers will be eligible to receive a Service Credit in the event AWS does not meet the Service Commitment.
The Amazon FSx filesystems, which as of the date of this announcement was Amazon FSx for Lustre and Amazon FSx for Windows File Server, now benefit from:
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