This Quick Start deploys CloudBees Core on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud, to provide a continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) solution that’s based on Jenkins and integrated with Amazon Elastic Container Service for Kubernetes (Amazon EKS).

AWS Training and Certification is launching the newly refreshed AWS Business Professional digital course for APN Partners on Tuesday, May 7. This new course provides valuable information about core AWS Services, an introduction to the cloud journey as part of the customer engagement and go-to-market process as well as customer enablement content. In addition, APN Partners will learn about the most up-to-date AWS Partner Network key programs and resources. Upon completion of the course modules and passing the course assessment, APN Partners will earn their AWS Business Professional Accreditation. Learn more here .

This course was introduced one week after we launched our updated AWS Partner Training and Certification site. The new site offers many enhancements, including Regional Course Schedules and Partner Learning Path tool that features paths that include the new AWS Business Professional digital course. Learn more here .

Reservations, sometimes referred to as Reserved Instances, offer a discounted hourly rate (sometimes up to 75%) compared to On-Demand resource usage, in exchange for committing to a one– or three-year term of service usage. Purchasing reservations to cover your AWS usage can translate into significant savings.

You can now use AWS Systems Manager Patch Manager to select and apply Microsoft application patches automatically across your Amazon EC2 or on-premises instances. This brings Microsoft application patching to the same AWS Systems Manager solution that you use today to patch Microsoft Windows, saving time and simplifying your patch processes to manage both Microsoft operating system and application patching from one location.

Today, we are announcing the general availability of storage-optimized Amazon EC2 I3en instances, the largest Non-Volatile Memory Express (NVMe) based SSD storage instance in the cloud. I3en instances offer up to 60 TB of low latency NVMe SSD instance storage and up to 50% lower cost per GB over I3 instances. These instances are designed for data-intensive workloads such as relational and NoSQL databases, distributed file systems, search engines, and data warehouses that require high random I/O access to large amounts of data residing on instance storage. I3en instances also provide up to 100 Gbps of networking bandwidth, up to 96 vCPUs, and up to 768 GiB of memory. In addition, customers can enable Elastic Fabric Adapter (EFA) on I3en for low and consistent network latency. I3en instances are powered by AWS-custom Intel® Xeon® Scalable (Skylake) processors with 3.1 GHz sustained all core turbo performance.

I3en instances come in seven instance sizes, with storage options from 1.25 to 60 TB. I3en instances deliver up to 2 million random IOPS at 4 KB block sizes and up to 16 GB/s of total disk throughput at 128 KB block sizes. These instances are available today in US East (N. Virginia), US West (Oregon), and Europe (Ireland) AWS regions.

Amazon EC2 I3en instances are offered as On-Demand, Reserved, or Spot Instances. For pricing, visit the EC2 pricing page. For details and to get started visit the Amazon EC2 I3en page , AWS Management Console , AWS Command Line Interface (CLI), or AWS SDKs .

Details: CloudFront announces 11 new Edge locations around the world, including its first Edge location in Salt Lake City, Utah. The additions come in the following cities:

United States

• Salt Lake City, Utah (New city within the CloudFront network)
• Boston, Massachusetts
• Seattle, Washington
• Phoenix, Arizona

Japan

• Tokyo

India

• Hyderabad x2
• Bangalore x2
• Delhi x2

The launch of these six new Edge locations in India effectively doubles CloudFront’s capacity within the region. Every new CloudFront Edge location continues to enhance the overall performance of serving your web applications to your users. A full list of CloudFront’s global locations is available on the CloudFront Features webpage.

This Quick Start deploys an opportunistic Internet Protocol Security (IPsec) mesh that sets up dynamic IPsec tunnels between Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances in your Amazon Web Services (AWS) account. 

The adoption of cloud technologies and AWS in particular is accelerating globally. More and more, customers across the globe are turning to the cloud and looking to take advantage of AWS to meet their business needs. Whatever your needs, Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the right place to start your cloud adoption journey. The AWS Partner Network (APN) has the services and solutions to help customers of all sizes to Build – Market – Sell their solutions and services to grow their business.

Today, we are excited to announce an new APN Navigate Foundations path to provide you an introduction to the APN and sheds light on how you can build, market, differentiate, sell and grow your business by becoming an APN Partner. The APN Navigate Foundations path provides you a prescriptive path to define your partner journey and walks you through all the benefits, requirements, tools, and knowledge you will need to advance your journey with APN.  

If you are new to APN, build your foundational blocks by having two (2) individuals from your organization go through the Business Professional Accreditation and two (2) individuals go through the Technical Professional Accreditation. These trainings will help you gain knowledge of the AWS business solutions and services.

If you are a business that already has a specific expertise or are further along in your APN journey, you can deepen your knowledge and validate your expertise with an APN Navigate Specialization tracks that suit your business area. For more information visit the APN Navigate Website.

Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) is now available in the Asia Pacific (Tokyo) and Asia Pacific (Seoul) regions with R5 instances , the next generation of memory optimized instances.

Amazon DocumentDB is a fast, scalable, highly available, and fully managed document database service that supports MongoDB workloads. You can use the same MongoDB application code, drivers, and tools that you do today to run, manage, and scale workloads on Amazon DocumentDB and enjoy improved performance, scalability, and availability without having to worry about managing the underlying infrastructure.

You can use Amazon DocumentDB in the following AWS regions: US East (N. Virginia, Ohio), US West (Oregon), Europe (Ireland, Frankfurt), and Asia Pacific (Tokyo, Seoul). For more information on AWS regions and services, please visit the AWS global region table .

To learn more about Amazon DocumentDB, please see our product page and documentation .  

AWS Step Functions now supports workflow execution events, which make it faster and easier to build and monitor event-driven, serverless workflows. Execution event notifications can be automatically delivered when a workflow starts or completes through CloudWatch Events, reaching targets like AWS Lambda, Amazon SNS, Amazon Kinesis, or AWS Step Functions for automated response to the event.