Amazon Elasticsearch Service now supports Elasticsearch 2.3

Amazon Elasticsearch Service now supports Elasticsearch version 2.3. Amazon Elasticsearch Service makes it easy to run Elasticsearch, which is a popular tool for real-time analytics use cases such as log analytics and application monitoring. Elasticsearch 2.3 offers many new features, including support for pipeline aggregations, improved geo-point fields, and support for data compression. Elasticsearch version Read more about Amazon Elasticsearch Service now supports Elasticsearch 2.3[…]

Amazon RDS for SQL Server now supports SQL Server Native Backup/Restore with S3

Amazon RDS for SQL Server now supports SQL Server Native Backup/Restore using Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3). You can now take database level backups as SQL Server backup files (.bak) and store them in your Amazon S3 bucket. SQL Server full backups are commonly used to migrate or move databases among different SQL Server instances, Read more about Amazon RDS for SQL Server now supports SQL Server Native Backup/Restore with S3[…]

AWS Support announces update to Developer Support plan

A new pricing model for our Developer Support plan has been launched, reducing the entry cost from $49 per month to $29 per month, while providing the same level of customer service and support. As of July 26th, 2016 all new AWS accounts subscribing to Developer Support will receive the new pricing, set at the Read more about AWS Support announces update to Developer Support plan[…]

Now Access CloudWatch Metrics directly from the Amazon ML Console

Amazon Machine Learning (Amazon ML) now publishes your CloudWatch metrics in the Amazon ML console, making it even easier to use and access these graphs. Currently, Amazon ML publishes metrics to CloudWatch, enabling you to monitor the performance of your models in production. As part of the ML model report, you can view recent CloudWatch Read more about Now Access CloudWatch Metrics directly from the Amazon ML Console[…]

AWS IoT announces support for Thing Types in the Thing Registry

AWS IoT now supports Thing Types in the Thing Registry. Thing Types allow you to effectively manage your catalogue of devices by defining common characteristics for devices that belong to the same device category. In addition, a Thing associated with a Thing Type can now have up to 50 attributes including 3 searchable attributes. To Read more about AWS IoT announces support for Thing Types in the Thing Registry[…]

Announcing the availability of Snowball in EU (Frankfurt) region

We are pleased to announce the expansion of the Snowball service to EU (Frankfurt) region. With this launch, AWS Import/Export Snowball is now available in the eight regions: US East (N. Virginia), US West (Oregon), US West (N. California), EU (Ireland), EU (Frankfurt), Asia Pacific (India), Asia Pacific (Sydney) and AWS GovCloud (US).  Source: Amazon Read more about Announcing the availability of Snowball in EU (Frankfurt) region[…]

Now evaluate AWS Config Rules on demand, trigger rules on both configuration changes and periodic frequency, delete evaluation results, and assess a broad set of resources

AWS Config is a fully managed service that continuously records configurations changes to your resources in AWS and notifies you when your resources change. With AWS Config Rules, you can define guidelines for provisioning and configuring AWS resources and then continuously monitor compliance with those guidelines.  Source: Amazon Web Services News