AWS Snowball Edge Compute Optimized will be shipping to customers the week of December 10th in the US East (Virginia), US West (Oregon), US West (Northern California), GovCloud (US-West), and EU (Ireland) AWS Regions.  

AWS Transfer for SFTP enables you to easily move your file transfer workloads that use the Secure Shell File Transfer Protocol (SFTP) to AWS without needing to modify your applications or manage any SFTP servers.

Amazon EFS Infrequent Access (EFS IA) is a new storage class for Amazon EFS that is cost-optimized for files that are accessed less frequently.

The AWS Amplify Console is a continuous deployment and hosting service for modern web applications with serverless backends. Modern web applications include single page app frameworks like React, Angular, and Vue, and static-site generators like Jekyll, Hugo, and Gatsby.

Amazon EC2 A1 instances deliver significant cost savings and are ideally suited for scale-out and Arm-based workloads that are supported by the extensive Arm ecosystem. A1 instances are the first EC2 instances powered by AWS Graviton Processors that feature 64-bit Arm Neoverse cores and custom silicon designed by AWS.

Today, we are excited to announce AWS Global Accelerator, a network layer service that you can deploy in front of your internet applications to improve the availability and performance for your globally-distributed user base. AWS Global Accelerator uses AWS’ vast, highly available and congestion-free global network to direct internet traffic from your users to your applications running in AWS Regions. With AWS Global Accelerator, your users are directed to your application based on geographic location, application health, and routing policies that you can configure. AWS Global Accelerator also allocates static anycast IP addresses that are globally unique for your application and do not change, thus removing the need to update clients as your application scales.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) announces the availability of C5n instances that can utilize up to 100 Gbps of network bandwidth. C5n instances offer significantly higher network performance across all instance sizes, ranging from 25 Gbps of peak bandwidth on smaller instance sizes to 100 Gbps of network bandwidth on the largest instance size. In addition, C5n instances also feature 33% higher memory footprint compared to C5 instances. C5n instances are ideal for applications that can take advantage of improved network throughput and packet rate performance.

Dynamic Training is an open-source deep learning project that allows you to reduce model training cost and time by leveraging the cloud’s elasticity and scale. The first reference implementation of Dynamic Training is based on Apache MXNet, and is open sourced under Dynamic Training with Apache MXNet .

AWS Key Management Service (KMS) has integrated with AWS CloudHSM so you now have the option to create your own KMS custom key store. Each custom key store is backed by an AWS CloudHSM cluster and enables you to generate, store, and use your KMS keys in hardware security modules (HSMs) that you control. The KMS custom key store helps satisfy compliance obligations that would otherwise require the use of on-premises HSMs and supports AWS services and encryption toolkits that are integrated with KMS.

Today, Amazon Web Services (AWS) is announcing Firecracker, new virtualization and open source technology that enables service owners to operate secure multi-tenant container-based services by combining the speed, resource efficiency, and performance enabled by containers with the security and isolation offered by traditional VMs. Firecracker implements a virtual machine manager (VMM) based on Linux’s Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM), and provides a RESTful API to create and manage microVMs with any combination of vCPU and memory to match application requirements. Firecracker is built with minimal device emulation that enables faster startup time, provides a reduced memory footprint for each microVM, and offers a trusted sandboxed environment for each container.