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…

Microsoft Cost Management updates—November 2024

By Dustin Ward

As you may know, November is the month for Microsoft’s largest customer and partner event—Microsoft Ignite. This year, we in the Cost management team, announced key product updates at this event to enable your FinOps journey. Below, you’ll find a summary of these enhancements. We invite you to explore and take full advantage of these…

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…

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,…