Simplify governance with declarative policies

By Dustin Ward

Today, I am happy to announce declarative policies, a new capability that helps you declare and enforce desired configuration for a given AWS Service at scale across your organization. It is common for customers to create standards within their organizations for how cloud resources should be configured. For example, they might require blocking public access…

Introducing Amazon OpenSearch Service and Amazon Security Lake integration to simplify security analytics

By Dustin Ward

Today, we’re announcing the general availability of Amazon OpenSearch Service zero-ETL integration with Amazon Security Lake. This integration enables organizations to efficiently search, analyze, and gain actionable insights from their security data, streamlining complex data engineering requirements and unlocking the full potential of security data. It’s a new way to in-place query and analyze logs…

Amazon FSx for Lustre increases throughput to GPU instances by up to 12x

By Dustin Ward

Today, we are announcing support for Elastic Fabric Adapter (EFA) and NVIDIA GPUDirect Storage (GDS) on Amazon FSx for Lustre. EFA is a network interface for Amazon EC2 instances that makes it possible to run applications requiring high levels of inter-node communications at scale. GDS is a technology that creates a direct data path between…

Time-based snapshot copy for Amazon EBS

By Dustin Ward

You can now specify a desired completion duration (15 minutes to 48 hours) when you copy an Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) snapshot within or between AWS Regions and/or accounts. This will help you to meet time-based compliance and business requirements for critical workloads. For example: Testing – Distribute fresh data on a timely…