Build the highest resilience apps with multi-Region strong consistency in Amazon DynamoDB global tables

by Azalio tdshpsk | Jun 30, 2025 | AWS

While tens of thousands of customers are successfully using Amazon DynamoDB global tables with eventual consistency, we’re seeing emerging needs for even stronger resilience. Many organizations find that the DynamoDB multi-Availability Zone architecture and eventually...

New Amazon EC2 C8gn instances powered by AWS Graviton4 offering up to 600Gbps network bandwidth

by Azalio tdshpsk | Jun 30, 2025 | AWS

Today, we’re announcing the general availability of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) C8gn network optimized instances powered by AWS Graviton4 processors and the latest 6th generation AWS Nitro Card. EC2 C8gn instances deliver up to 600Gbps network bandwidth,...

AWS Weekly Roundup: Project Rainier, Amazon CloudWatch investigations, AWS MCP servers, and more (June 30, 2025)

by Azalio tdshpsk | Jun 30, 2025 | AWS

Every time I visit Seattle, the first thing that greets me at the airport is Mount Rainier. Did you know that the most innovative project at Amazon Web Services (AWS) is named after this mountain? Project Rainier is a new project to create what is expected to be the...

Amazon FSx for OpenZFS now supports Amazon S3 access without any data movement

by Azalio tdshpsk | Jun 25, 2025 | AWS

Starting today, you can attach Amazon S3 Access Points to your Amazon FSx for OpenZFS file systems to access your file data as if it were in Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3). With this new capability, your data in FSx for OpenZFS is accessible for use with a...

New: Improve Apache Iceberg query performance in Amazon S3 with sort and z-order compaction

by Azalio tdshpsk | Jun 24, 2025 | AWS

You can now use sort and z-order compaction to improve Apache Iceberg query performance in Amazon S3 Tables and general purpose S3 buckets. You typically use Iceberg to manage large-scale analytical datasets in Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) with AWS Glue...

AWS Weekly Roundup: re:Inforce re:Cap, Valkey GLIDE 2.0, Avro and Protobuf or MCP Servers on Lambda, and more (June 23, 2025)

by Azalio tdshpsk | Jun 23, 2025 | AWS

Last week’s hallmark event was the security-focused AWS re:Inforce conference. Now a tradition, the blog team wrote a re:Cap post to summarize the announcements and link to some of the top blog posts. To further summarize, several new security innovations were...