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…

Announcing future-dated Amazon EC2 On-Demand Capacity Reservations

By Dustin Ward

Customers use Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) to run every type of workload imaginable, including web hosting, big data processing, high-performance computing (HPC), virtual desktops, live event streaming, and databases. Some of these workloads are so critical that customers asked for the ability to reserve capacity for them. To help customers flexibly reserve capacity,…

Introducing a new experience for AWS Systems Manager

By Dustin Ward

Today, I’m excited to introduce a new and improved version of AWS Systems Manager that brings a highly requested cross-account, and cross-Region experience for managing nodes at scale. The new System Manager experience provides centralized visibility of all your managed nodes which include various infrastructure types, such as Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instances, containers,…

Improve your app authentication workflow with new Amazon Cognito features

By Dustin Ward

Introduced 10 years ago, Amazon Cognito is a service that helps you implement customer identity and access management (CIAM) in your web and mobile applications. You can use Amazon Cognito for various use cases, from providing your customers to quickly add sign-in and sign-up experiences to your applications and authorization to securing machine-to-machine authentication and…