AWS Elemental MediaLive now makes channel alerts available within the detail view of a running channel. This real-time information reduces the latency of alarms and enables you to remedy issues more quickly. There alerts are also available via Amazon CloudWatch Events. For more informatiion, visit the AWS Elemental MediaLive documetnation pages. Source: Amazon Web Services Read more about AWS Elemental MediaLive Adds Channel Alerts To The Console[…]

This Quick Start builds a highly available user VPN solution on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud in about 10-15 minutes. It deploys the Aviatrix Controller, Aviatrix gateways, authentication services, and log analytics.  Source: Amazon Web Services News Deploy Aviatrix User VPN on the AWS Cloud with New Quick Start

AWS Marketplace, a curated digital catalog, which lists over 4,200 software listings from popular software vendors, has released a streamlined website workflow. This new workflow makes it easy for you to see how you procure, configure, and fulfill Amazon Machine Image (AMI) software products. Source: Amazon Web Services News AWS Marketplace Launches New Website Workflow

Amazon Sumerian is now available in three new AWS regions: US West (Northern California), South America (Sao Paulo) and EU (Frankfurt). This expands the number of AWS regions where Amazon Sumerian is available to 9. Please visit the AWS region table for more information. Source: Amazon Web Services News Amazon Sumerian Regional and Feature Expansion

The Amazon Elastic Container Service Command Line Interface (Amazon ECS CLI) now supports the Docker Compose version 3 file format for deploying Docker containers to Amazon ECS. Source: Amazon Web Services News Amazon ECS CLI Supports Docker Compose Version 3

Source: Amazon Web Services News Amazon WorkDocs introduces Open with Office Online

The AWS Deep Learning AMIs for Ubuntu and Amazon Linux now come pre-installed and fully configured with Horovod, a popular open source distributed training framework to scale TensorFlow training on multiple GPUs. Source: Amazon Web Services News AWS Deep Learning AMIs Now Include Horovod for Faster Multi-GPU TensorFlow Training on Amazon EC2 P3 Instances

Application Load Balancers now support two new security policies: ELBSecurityPolicy-FS-2018-06 and ELBSecurityPolicy-TLS-1-2-Ext-2018-06. ELBSecurityPolicy-FS-2018-06 implements ciphers that ensure Forward Secrecy. Customers now have a policy that prevents out-of-band decryption if someone records the traffic and later compromises the server’s private key. ELBSecurityPolicy-TLS-1-2-Ext-2018-06 gives customers the option of only using the latest TLS 1.2 protocol with the Read more about Application Load Balancer Adds New Security Policies Including Policy for Forward Secrecy[…]

Amazon Athena is an interactive query service that makes it easy to analyze data in Amazon S3 using standard SQL. Athena is serverless, so there is no infrastructure to manage, and you pay only for the queries you run. You can now create Views and run queries against those Views. Views simplify how you query Read more about Amazon Athena releases support for Views[…]

You can now COPY Apache Parquet and Apache ORC file formats from Amazon S3 to your Amazon Redshift cluster. Apache Parquet and ORC are columnar data formats that allow users to store their data more efficiently and cost-effectively. With this update, Redshift now supports COPY from six file formats: AVRO, CSV, JSON, Parquet, ORC and Read more about Amazon Redshift Can Now COPY from Parquet and ORC File Formats[…]