Month: July 2022

How We Sent an AWS Snowcone into Orbit

I have been a fan of space travel and the US space program since I was 4 or 5 years old. I remember reading about the Mercury and Gemini programs, and watched with excitement as Lunar Module Eagle landed on the Moon. Today, with the cost to reach Low Earth Orbit (LEO) seemingly declining with…

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New – Amazon EC2 R6a Instances Powered by 3rd Gen

We launched the general-purpose Amazon EC2 M6a instances at AWS re:Invent 2021 and compute-intensive C6a instances in February of this year. These instances are powered by the 3rd Gen AMD EPYC processors running at frequencies up to 3.6 GHz to offer up to 35 percent better price performance versus the previous generation instances. Today, we…

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AWS Week In Review – July 18, 2022

Last week, AWS Summit New York was held in person at the Javits Center with thousands of attendees and over 100 sponsors and partners. During the keynote, Martin Beeby, AWS Principal Developer Advocate, talked about how innovations in cloud infrastructure enable customers to adapt to challenges and seize new opportunities. It included Liz Fong-Jones‘s great…

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New – Cloud WAN : A Managed WAN Service

Update July 13, 2022 – we have added a list of blog posts and technical resources provided by our partners, in order to provide readers with additional information on this service. I am pleased to announce the availability of AWS Cloud WAN, a new network service that makes it easy to build and operate wide…

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