Month: November 2023

With Amazon Comprehend, you can extract insights from text without being a machine learning expert. Using its built-in models, Comprehend can analyze the syntax of your input documents and find entities, events, key phrases, personally identifiable information (PII), and the overall sentiment or sentiments associated with specific entities (such as brands or products). Today, we…

You now have the ability to disable public sharing of new, and optionally existing, Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) snapshots on a per-region, per-account basis. This provides you with another level of protection against accidental or inadvertent data leakage. EBS Snapshot Review You have had the power to create EBS snapshots since the launch…

With Amazon SQS, you can send and receive messages between software components at any scale. It was one of the first AWS services I used and as a Solutions Architect, I helped many customers take advantage of asynchronous communications using message queues. In fact, Amazon SQS has been generally available since July 2006 and, under…

The year is coming to an end, and there are only 50 days until Christmas and 21 days to AWS re:Invent! If you are in Las Vegas, come and say hi to me. I will be around the Serverlesspresso booth most of the time. Last week’s launches Here are some launches that got my attention during…

Amazon Data Lifecycle Manager now supports the use of pre-snapshot and post-snapshot scripts embedded in AWS Systems Manager documents. You can use these scripts to ensure that Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) snapshots created by Data Lifecycle Manager are application-consistent. Scripts can pause and resume I/O operations, flush buffered data to EBS volumes, and…