October 2023

Rotate Your SSL/TLS Certificates Now – Amazon RDS and Amazon Aurora Expire in 2024

Don’t be surprised if you have seen the Certificate Update in the Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) console. If you use or plan to use Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) or Transport Layer Security (TLS) with certificate verification to connect to your database instances of Amazon RDS for MySQL, MariaDB, SQL Server, Oracle, PostgreSQL, and …

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How Cisco & Nutanix’s Alliance Impacts Veeam Users

As Josh Druck outlined in his September 14th blog, Veeam has longstanding technical relationships with both Cisco HyperFlex and Nutanix. In this blog, I would like to explore what the recent Cisco and Nutanix global strategic partnership announcement will mean to Veeam customers, or prospective Veeam customers, from a technical perspective.  As you may know, …

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Understanding Cloud Compliance: A Guide to HIPAA, GDPR, SOX, and More

Introduction In today’s digital landscape, the adoption of cloud computing has transcended beyond just a technological trend; it’s now a business imperative. Companies, irrespective of size or sector, are migrating to cloud services to leverage the advantages of scalability, flexibility, and efficiency. However, this migration comes with its own set of challenges, the most notable …

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Introducing Amazon MSK Replicator – Fully Managed Replication across MSK Clusters in Same or Different AWS Regions

Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK) provides a fully managed and highly available Apache Kafka service simplifying the way you process streaming data. When using Apache Kafka, a common architectural pattern is to replicate data from one cluster to another. Cross-cluster replication is often used to implement business continuity and disaster recovery plans …

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New Customization Capability in Amazon CodeWhisperer Generates Even Better Suggestions (Preview)

An AI coding companion, such as Amazon CodeWhisperer, aims to improve developers’ productivity by helping them write code quickly and securely. However, in particular cases, developers need to have code recommendations based on their internal libraries and APIs they extensively use every day. As most of the existing AI coding companion tools are trained only …

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New – Seventh Generation Memory-optimized Amazon EC2 Instances (R7i)

Earlier, we introduced a duo of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances to our lineup: the general-purpose Amazon EC2 M7i instances and the compute-optimized Amazon EC2 C7i instances. Today, I’m happy to share that we’re expanding these seventh-generation x86-based offerings to include memory-optimized Amazon EC2 R7i instances. These instances are powered by custom 4th …

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AWS Weekly Roundup – EBS Status Check, Textract Custom Queries, Amazon Linux 2, and more – October 16, 2023

With just 41 days until AWS re:Invent 2023 opens, I’m doing my best to stay heads-down and focused on working with the entire AWS News Blog team to create plenty of awesome new posts for your reading pleasure! I’ll take a short break this morning to share some of the most exciting launches and other …

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Getting Started with Kubernetes Security: A Beginner’s Guide 

Understanding Kubernetes Architecture Kubernetes is an open-source container orchestration platform that automates the deployment, scaling and management of containerized applications. It is increasingly deployed in industry to manage and orchestrate containerized applications. Kubernetes architecture within each cluster is composed of several components, including the master node, worker nodes and various add-ons. The master node is …

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