AWS Weekly Roundup — Amazon ECS, RDS for MySQL, EMR Studio, AWS Community, and more — January 22, 2024

As usual, a lot has happened in the Amazon Web Services (AWS) universe this past week. I’m also excited about all the AWS Community events and initiatives that are happening around the world. Let’s take a look together! Last week’s Continue reading AWS Weekly Roundup — Amazon ECS, RDS for MySQL, EMR Studio, AWS Community, and more — January 22, 2024

AWS Weekly Roundup—Amazon Route53, Amazon EventBridge, Amazon SageMaker, and more – January 15, 2024

We are in January, the start of a new year, and I imagine many of you have made a new year resolution to learn something new. If you want to learn something new and get a free Amazon Web Services Continue reading AWS Weekly Roundup—Amazon Route53, Amazon EventBridge, Amazon SageMaker, and more – January 15, 2024

Amazon ECS supports a native integration with Amazon EBS volumes for data-intensive workloads

Today we are announcing that Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) supports an integration with Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS), making it easier to run a wider range of data processing workloads. You can provision Amazon EBS storage for Continue reading Amazon ECS supports a native integration with Amazon EBS volumes for data-intensive workloads

Detect runtime security threats in Amazon ECS and AWS Fargate, new in Amazon GuardDuty

Today, we’re announcing Amazon GuardDuty ECS Runtime Monitoring to help detect potential runtime security issues in Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) clusters running on both AWS Fargate and Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2). GuardDuty combines machine learning (ML), Continue reading Detect runtime security threats in Amazon ECS and AWS Fargate, new in Amazon GuardDuty

Blue/Green deployments using AWS CDK Pipelines and AWS CodeDeploy

Customers often ask for help with implementing Blue/Green deployments to Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) using AWS CodeDeploy. Their use cases usually involve cross-Region and cross-account deployment scenarios. These requirements are challenging enough on their own, but in addition Continue reading Blue/Green deployments using AWS CDK Pipelines and AWS CodeDeploy

Data and Analytics environments at Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany using AWS Services

Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany, a leading science and technology company, operates across life science, healthcare, and electronics. More than 60,000 employees work to make a positive difference to millions of people’s lives every day by creating more joyful and sustainable Continue reading Data and Analytics environments at Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany using AWS Services

AWS Fargate Enables Faster Container Startup using Seekable OCI

While developing with containers is becoming an increasingly popular way for deploying and scaling applications, there are still areas where improvements can be made. One of the main issues with scaling containerized applications is the long startup time, especially during Continue reading AWS Fargate Enables Faster Container Startup using Seekable OCI

Applying carbon value modeling to achieve net-zero

Climate change is one of the most pressing issues of our time, and it’s becoming increasingly clear that we need to take rapid action to reduce our carbon emissions. To be carbon-neutral by 2050 and keep the Earth’s mean temperature Continue reading Applying carbon value modeling to achieve net-zero

Learn How to Modernize Your Applications at AWS Serverless Innovation Day

Join us on Wednesday, May 17, for AWS Serverless Innovation Day, a free full-day virtual event. You will learn about AWS Serverless technologies and event-driven architectures from customers, experts, and leaders. AWS Serverless Innovation Day is an event to empower Continue reading Learn How to Modernize Your Applications at AWS Serverless Innovation Day