Amazon EBS now provides additional visibility to monitor the average IOPS and average throughput of your Amazon EBS volumes with two new CloudWatch metrics - VolumeAvgIOPS and VolumeAvgThroughput. You can use the metrics to monitor the I/O being driven on your EBS volumes to track performance trends. With these new volume level metrics, you can troubleshoot performance bottlenecks and optimize your volume’s provisioned performance to meet your application needs. The metrics will provide per-minute visibility into the driven average IOPS and average throughput on your EBS volume. With Amazon CloudWatch, you can use the new metrics to create customized dashboards and set alarms that notify you or automatically perform actions based on the metrics. The VolumeAvgIOPS and VolumeAvgThroughput metrics are available by default at a 1-minute frequency at no additional charge and are supported for all EBS volumes attached to an EC2 Nitro instance in all Commercial AWS Regions, including the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions and AWS China Regions. To learn more about these new metrics, please visit the EBS CloudWatch Metrics documentation.

AWS introduces Amazon EBS Volume Clones with cross-account copy, so you can create copies of your EBS volumes into other AWS accounts and optionally re-encrypt them with an AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS) key in the target account.

AWS launched Amazon EBS Volume Clones, a new capability that allows users to create instant point-in-time copies of EBS volumes within the same Availability Zone with a single API call, eliminating the previous multi-step process of taking snapshots and creating volumes from them.

AWS launched Amazon EBS Volume Clones, a new capability that allows users to create instant point-in-time copies of EBS volumes within the same Availability Zone with a single API call, eliminating the previous multi-step process of taking snapshots and creating volumes from them.

I’ve been inspired by all the activities that tech communities around the world have been hosting and participating in throughout the year. Here in the southern hemisphere we’re starting to dream about our upcoming summer breaks and closing out on some of the activities we’ve initiated this year. The tech community in South Africa is […]

I’ve been inspired by all the activities that tech communities around the world have been hosting and participating in throughout the year. Here in the southern hemisphere we’re starting to dream about our upcoming summer breaks and closing out on some of the activities we’ve initiated this year. The tech community in South Africa is […]

Today, we are introducing automation rules, a new feature in AWS Compute Optimizer that enables you to optimize Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) volumes at scale. With automation rules, you can streamline the process of cleaning up unattached EBS volumes and upgrading volumes to the latest-generation volume types, saving cost and improving performance across your cloud infrastructure. Automation rules let you automatically apply optimization recommendations on a recurring schedule when they match your criteria. You can set criteria like AWS Region to target specific geographies and Resource Tags to distinguish between production and development workloads. Configure rules to run daily, weekly, or monthly, and AWS Compute Optimizer will continuously evaluate new recommendations against your criteria. A new dashboard allows you to summarize automation events over time, examine detailed step history, and estimate savings achieved. If you need to reverse an action, you can do so directly from the same dashboard. AWS Compute Optimizer automation rules are available in the following AWS Regions: US East (N. Virginia), US East (Ohio), US West (N. California), US West (Oregon), Asia Pacific (Mumbai), Asia Pacific (Osaka), Asia Pacific (Seoul), Asia Pacific (Singapore), Asia Pacific (Sydney), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), Canada (Central), Europe (Frankfurt), Europe (Ireland), Europe (London), Europe (Paris), Europe (Stockholm), and South America (São Paulo). To get started, navigate to the new Automation section in the AWS Compute Optimizer console, visit the AWS Compute Optimizer user guide documentation, or read the announcement blog to learn more.

Today, we are introducing automation rules, a new feature in AWS Compute Optimizer that enables you to optimize Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) volumes at scale. With automation rules, you can streamline the process of cleaning up unattached EBS volumes and upgrading volumes to the latest-generation volume types, saving cost and improving performance across your cloud infrastructure. Automation rules let you automatically apply optimization recommendations on a recurring schedule when they match your criteria. You can set criteria like AWS Region to target specific geographies and Resource Tags to distinguish between production and development workloads. Configure rules to run daily, weekly, or monthly, and AWS Compute Optimizer will continuously evaluate new recommendations against your criteria. A new dashboard allows you to summarize automation events over time, examine detailed step history, and estimate savings achieved. If you need to reverse an action, you can do so directly from the same dashboard. AWS Compute Optimizer automation rules are available in the following AWS Regions: US East (N. Virginia), US East (Ohio), US West (N. California), US West (Oregon), Asia Pacific (Mumbai), Asia Pacific (Osaka), Asia Pacific (Seoul), Asia Pacific (Singapore), Asia Pacific (Sydney), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), Canada (Central), Europe (Frankfurt), Europe (Ireland), Europe (London), Europe (Paris), Europe (Stockholm), and South America (São Paulo). To get started, navigate to the new Automation section in the AWS Compute Optimizer console, visit the AWS Compute Optimizer https://docs.aws.amazon.com/compute-optimizer/latest/ug/automation.html, or read the https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws-cloud-financial-management/introducing-automated-amazon-ebs-volume-optimization-in-aws-compute-optimizer/ to learn more.

Today, AWS Transform introduced three enhancements to help you better assess and plan your migration and modernization journey. These new features include enhanced assessments to analyze EBS cost, .NET agent to analyze code complexity, and an expanded interactive chat interface for .NET modernization guidance. First, AWS Transform assessments now includes Amazon Elastic Block Storage (EBS) cost analysis, enabling you to better understand and plan for storage costs in your migration initiatives. This enhancement helps you make more informed decisions about resource allocation and budget planning for your transformation projects. Second, AWS Transform for .NET now supports enhanced code assessment capabilities that help you accelerate modernization planning with greater confidence, efficiency, and time savings. You can view repository transformation complexity, receive transformation group recommendations, and view transformation assessment reports with natural language summaries, all within a single, unified experience. Finally, AWS Transform now expands chat capability to provide an interactive chat experience that allows you to query specific aspects of your assessment and .NET transformation progress in natural language. You can quickly access relevant information about your modernization journey, get clarification on recommendations, and receive contextual guidance for specific use cases. These new features are now available in the following https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/global-infrastructure/regional-product-services/: US East (N. Virginia) and Europe (Frankfurt). To learn more, visit the https://docs.aws.amazon.com/transform/latest/userguide/what-is-service.html and the https://aws.amazon.com/transform/faq.

Today, AWS Transform introduced three enhancements to help you better assess and plan your migration and modernization journey. These new features include enhanced assessments to analyze EBS cost, .NET agent to analyze code complexity, and an expanded interactive chat interface for .NET modernization guidance. First, AWS Transform assessments now includes Amazon Elastic Block Storage (EBS) cost analysis, enabling you to better understand and plan for storage costs in your migration initiatives. This enhancement helps you make more informed decisions about resource allocation and budget planning for your transformation projects. Second, AWS Transform for .NET now supports enhanced code assessment capabilities that help you accelerate modernization planning with greater confidence, efficiency, and time savings. You can view repository transformation complexity, receive transformation group recommendations, and view transformation assessment reports with natural language summaries, all within a single, unified experience. Finally, AWS Transform now expands chat capability to provide an interactive chat experience that allows you to query specific aspects of your assessment and .NET transformation progress in natural language. You can quickly access relevant information about your modernization journey, get clarification on recommendations, and receive contextual guidance for specific use cases. These new features are now available in the following AWS Regions: US East (N. Virginia) and Europe (Frankfurt). To learn more, visit the AWS Transform user guide and the frequently asked questions page.

Recycle Bin for Amazon EBS, which helps you recover accidentally deleted snapshots and EBS-backed AMIs, now supports EBS Volumes. If you accidentally delete a volume, you can now recover it directly from Recycle Bin instead of restoring from a snapshot, reducing your recovery point objective with no data loss between the last snapshot and deletion. Your recovered volume can immediately achieve the full performance without waiting for data to download from snapshots. To use Recycle Bin, you can set a retention period for deleted volumes, and you can recover any volume within that period. Recovered volumes are immediately available and will retain all attributes—tags, permissions, and encryption status. Volumes not recovered are deleted permanently when the retention period expires. You create retention rules to enable Recycle Bin for all volumes or specific volumes, using tags to target which volumes to protect. EBS Volumes in Recycle Bin are billed at the same price as EBS Volumes, read more on the pricing page. To get started, read the documentation. The feature is now available through the AWS Command Line Interface (CLI), AWS SDKs, or the AWS Console in all AWS commercial, China, and AWS GovCloud (US) Regions.

Today, Amazon announced two new Amazon CloudWatch metrics that provide insight into when your application exceeds the I/O performance limits for your EC2 instance with attached EBS volumes. These two metrics, Instance EBS IOPS Exceeded Check and Instance EBS Throughput Exceeded Check, monitor if the driven IOPS or throughput is exceeding the maximum EBS IOPS or throughput that your instance can support. With these two new metrics at the instance level, you can quickly identify and respond to application performance issues stemming from exceeding the https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/ebs-optimized.html. These metrics will return a value of 0 (performance not exceeded) or a 1 (performance exceeded) when your workload is exceeding the EBS-Optimized IOPS or throughput limit of the EC2 instance. With Amazon CloudWatch, you can use these new metrics to create customized dashboards and set alarms that notify you or automatically perform actions based on these metrics, such as moving to a larger instance size or a different instance type that supports higher EBS-Optimized limits. The Instance EBS IOPS Exceeded Check and Instance EBS Throughput Exceeded Check metrics are available by default at a 1-minute frequency at no additional charges, for all Nitro-based Amazon EC2 instances with EBS volumes attached. You can access these metrics via the EC2 console, CLI, or CloudWatch API in all Commercial AWS Regions, including the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions and China Regions. To learn more about these CloudWatch metrics, please visit the https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/viewing_metrics_with_cloudwatch.html#ebs-metrics-nitro.

Amazon EBS now provides additional visibility to monitor the average IOPS and average throughput of your Amazon EBS volumes with two new CloudWatch metrics - VolumeAvgIOPS and VolumeAvgThroughput. You can use the metrics to monitor the I/O being driven on your EBS volumes to track performance trends. With these new volume level metrics, you can troubleshoot performance bottlenecks and optimize your volume’s provisioned performance to meet your application needs. The metrics will provide per-minute visibility into the driven average IOPS and average throughput on your EBS volume. With Amazon CloudWatch, you can use the new metrics to create customized dashboards and set alarms that notify you or automatically perform actions based on the metrics. The VolumeAvgIOPS and VolumeAvgThroughput metrics are available by default at a 1-minute frequency at no additional charge and are supported for all EBS volumes attached to an EC2 Nitro instance in all Commercial AWS Regions, including the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions and AWS China Regions. To learn more about these new metrics, please visit the https://docs.aws.amazon.com/ebs/latest/userguide/using_cloudwatch_ebs.html.

Amazon EBS io2 Block Express volumes are now available in Amazon Web Services China (Beijing) Region, operated by Sinnet and Amazon Web Services China (Ningxia) Region, operated by NWCD. io2 Block Express leverage the latest generation of EBS storage server architecture designed to deliver consistent sub-millisecond latency and 99.999% durability. With a single io2 Block Express volume, you can achieve 256,000 IOPS, 4GiB/s throughput, and 64TiB storage capacity. You can also attach an io2 Block Express volume to multiple instances in the same Availability Zone, supporting shared storage fencing through NVMe reservations for improved application availability and scalability. With the lowest p99.9 I/O latency among major cloud providers, io2 Block Express is the ideal choice for the most I/O-intensive, mission-critical deployments such as SAP HANA, Oracle, SQL Server, and IBM DB2. Customers using io1 volumes can upgrade to io2 Block Express without any downtime using the ModifyVolume API to achieve 100x durability, consistent sub-millisecond latency, and significantly higher performance at the same or lower cost than io1. With io2 Block Express, you can drive up to 4x IOPS and 4x throughput at the same storage price as io1, and up to 50% cheaper IOPS cost for volumes over 32,000 IOPS. io2 Block Express is now available in all the Amazon Web Services regions. You can create and manage io2 Block Express volumes using the Amazon Web Services Management Console, Amazon Command Line Interface (CLI), or Amazon SDKs. For more information on io2 Block Express, see our tech documentation.

Amazon EBS io2 Block Express volumes are now available in Amazon Web Services China (Beijing) Region, operated by Sinnet and Amazon Web Services China (Ningxia) Region, operated by NWCD. io2 Block Express leverage the latest generation of EBS storage server architecture designed to deliver consistent sub-millisecond latency and 99.999% durability. With a single io2 Block Express volume, you can achieve 256,000 IOPS, 4GiB/s throughput, and 64TiB storage capacity. You can also attach an io2 Block Express volume to multiple instances in the same Availability Zone, supporting shared storage fencing through NVMe reservations for improved application availability and scalability. With the lowest p99.9 I/O latency among major cloud providers, io2 Block Express is the ideal choice for the most I/O-intensive, mission-critical deployments such as SAP HANA, Oracle, SQL Server, and IBM DB2. Customers using io1 volumes can upgrade to io2 Block Express without any downtime using the https://docs.amazonaws.cn/en_us/ebs/latest/userguide/ebs-modify-volume.html API to achieve 100x durability, consistent sub-millisecond latency, and significantly higher performance at the same or lower cost than io1. With io2 Block Express, you can drive up to 4x IOPS and 4x throughput at the same storage price as io1, and up to 50% cheaper IOPS cost for volumes over 32,000 IOPS. io2 Block Express is now available in all the Amazon Web Services regions. You can create and manage io2 Block Express volumes using the Amazon Web Services Management Console, Amazon Command Line Interface (CLI), or Amazon SDKs. For more information on io2 Block Express, see our https://docs.amazonaws.cn/en_us/ebs/latest/userguide/provisioned-iops.html#io2-block-express.

Recycle Bin for Amazon EBS, which helps you recover accidentally deleted snapshots and EBS-backed AMIs, now supports EBS Volumes. If you accidentally delete a volume, you can now recover it directly from Recycle Bin instead of restoring from a snapshot, reducing your recovery point objective with no data loss between the last snapshot and deletion. Your recovered volume can immediately achieve the full performance without waiting for data to download from snapshots. To use Recycle Bin, you can set a retention period for deleted volumes, and you can recover any volume within that period. Recovered volumes are immediately available and will retain all attributes—tags, permissions, and encryption status. Volumes not recovered are deleted permanently when the retention period expires. You create retention rules to enable Recycle Bin for all volumes or specific volumes, using tags to target which volumes to protect. EBS Volumes in Recycle Bin are billed at the same price as EBS Volumes, read more on the https://aws.amazon.com/ebs/pricing/. To get started, read the https://docs.aws.amazon.com/ebs/latest/userguide/recycle-bin.html. The feature is now available through the https://aws.amazon.com/cli/, https://aws.amazon.com/tools/, or the https://aws.amazon.com/console/ in all AWS commercial, China, and AWS GovCloud (US) Regions.

Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS), a high-performance block storage service, announces the general availability of snapshot copy for AWS Local Zones. This new feature helps you meet your business and compliance requirements by ensuring that your EBS Snapshots are copied to the AWS Region or AWS Local Zone. Snapshot copy copies a point-in-time local snapshot of an EBS volume and stores it in Amazon S3 in the Region or to another Local Zone. Customers use EBS Snapshots to back up their EBS volumes and copy them across multiple AWS Regions and Local Zones for disaster recovery, data migration, and compliance purposes. Amazon EBS snapshot copy is available in Local Zones that support local snapshots through the AWS Console, AWS Command Line Interface (CLI), and AWS SDKs. To learn more, see the technical documentation for snapshot copy.

You can now use Amazon EBS General Purpose SSD volumes (gp3) volumes with the second-generation AWS Outposts racks for your workloads that require local data processing and data residency. The latest generation of gp3 enables you to provision performance independently of storage capacity, delivering a baseline performance of 3,000 IOPS and 125 MB/s at any volume size. With gp3 volumes, you can scale up to 16,000 IOPS and 1,000 MB/s, delivering 4x the maximum throughput of the previously supported gp2 volumes. EBS gp3 volumes on second-generation AWS Outposts are ideal for a wide variety of performance-intensive applications, including MySQL, Cassandra, virtual desktops, and Hadoop analytics clusters. AWS Outposts racks offer the same AWS infrastructure, AWS services, APIs, and tools to virtually any on-premises data center or colocation space for a truly consistent hybrid experience. Second-generation AWS Outposts racks support the latest generation of x86-powered Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances, starting with C7i, M7i, and R7i instances. These instances deliver twice the vCPU, memory, and network bandwidth, as well as up to 40% better performance compared to C5, M5, and R5 instances on first-generation AWS Outposts racks. You can manage gp3 volumes using the AWS Management Console, the AWS Command Line Interface (CLI), or the AWS SDKs in all Regions and countries/territories where second-generation AWS Outposts racks are supported. For more information on gp3 volumes, see the product overview page. For a current list of AWS Regions and countries/territories where second-generation AWS Outposts racks are supported, check out the AWS Outposts racks FAQs page.

You can now use Amazon EBS General Purpose SSD volumes (gp3) volumes with the second-generation AWS Outposts racks for your workloads that require local data processing and data residency. The latest generation of gp3 enables you to provision performance independently of storage capacity, delivering a baseline performance of 3,000 IOPS and 125 MB/s at any volume size. With gp3 volumes, you can scale up to 16,000 IOPS and 1,000 MB/s, delivering 4x the maximum throughput of the previously supported gp2 volumes. EBS gp3 volumes on second-generation AWS Outposts are ideal for a wide variety of performance-intensive applications, including MySQL, Cassandra, virtual desktops, and Hadoop analytics clusters. AWS Outposts racks offer the same AWS infrastructure, AWS services, APIs, and tools to virtually any on-premises data center or colocation space for a truly consistent hybrid experience. Second-generation AWS Outposts racks support the latest generation of x86-powered Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances, starting with C7i, M7i, and R7i instances. These instances deliver twice the vCPU, memory, and network bandwidth, as well as up to 40% better performance compared to C5, M5, and R5 instances on first-generation AWS Outposts racks. You can manage gp3 volumes using the AWS Management Console, the AWS Command Line Interface (CLI), or the AWS SDKs in all Regions and countries/territories where second-generation AWS Outposts racks are supported. For more information on gp3 volumes, see the https://aws.amazon.com/ebs/volume-types/. For a current list of AWS Regions and countries/territories where second-generation AWS Outposts racks are supported, check out the https://aws.amazon.com/outposts/rack/faqs/#product-faqs%23in-which-countries-and-territories-is-outposts-rack-available-trigger  

Today, Amazon announced two new Amazon CloudWatch metrics that provide insight into when your application exceeds the I/O performance limits for your EC2 instance with attached EBS volumes. These two metrics, Instance EBS IOPS Exceeded Check and Instance EBS Throughput Exceeded Check, monitor if the driven IOPS or throughput is exceeding the maximum EBS IOPS or throughput that your instance can support. With these two new metrics at the instance level, you can quickly identify and respond to application performance issues stemming from exceeding the EBS-Optimized limits of your instance. These metrics will return a value of 0 (performance not exceeded) or a 1 (performance exceeded) when your workload is exceeding the EBS-Optimized IOPS or throughput limit of the EC2 instance. With Amazon CloudWatch, you can use these new metrics to create customized dashboards and set alarms that notify you or automatically perform actions based on these metrics, such as moving to a larger instance size or a different instance type that supports higher EBS-Optimized limits. The Instance EBS IOPS Exceeded Check and Instance EBS Throughput Exceeded Check metrics are available by default at a 1-minute frequency at no additional charges, for all Nitro-based Amazon EC2 instances with EBS volumes attached. You can access these metrics via the EC2 console, CLI, or CloudWatch API in all Commercial AWS Regions, including the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions and China Regions. To learn more about these CloudWatch metrics, please visit the EC2 CloudWatch Metrics documentation.

Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS), a high-performance block storage service, announces the general availability of snapshot copy for AWS Local Zones. This new feature helps you meet your business and compliance requirements by ensuring that your EBS Snapshots are copied to the AWS Region or AWS Local Zone. Snapshot copy copies a point-in-time local snapshot of an EBS volume and stores it in Amazon S3 in the Region or to another Local Zone. Customers use EBS Snapshots to back up their EBS volumes and copy them across multiple AWS Regions and Local Zones for disaster recovery, data migration, and compliance purposes. Amazon EBS snapshot copy is available in Local Zones that support local snapshots through the AWS Console, AWS Command Line Interface (CLI), and AWS SDKs. To learn more, see the technical documentation for https://docs.aws.amazon.com/ebs/latest/userguide/ebs-copy-snapshot.html.

Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) now supports higher volume-level limits for its General Purpose (gp3) volumes. With this update, gp3 volumes can scale up to 64 TiB in size (4X the previous 16 TiB limit), up to 80,000 IOPS (5X the previous 16,000 IOPS limit), and up to 2,000 MiB/s throughput (2X the previous 1,000 MiB/s limit). These expanded limits help reduce operational complexity for storage-intensive workloads by enabling gp3 volumes with larger capacity and higher performance. You can consolidate multiple striped volumes into a single gp3 volume, streamline architectures, and lower management overhead. The increased limits particularly benefit customers running containerized workloads with limited support for striping multiple volumes, applications that rely on single-volume architectures, and growing workloads approaching current gp3 limits. The pricing model remains unchanged: you pay for storage plus any additional IOPS and throughput provisioned beyond the baseline performance. The new gp3 limits are available in all AWS Commercial Regions and AWS GovCloud (US) Regions where gp3 volumes are available. To get started and learn more, please visit the https://docs.aws.amazon.com/ebs/latest/userguide/general-purpose.html.

There’s a particular energy to mid-September in New York. Pumpkin spice lattes are flowing, temperatures are dropping, and it’s nearly sweater weather. The city is back at full speed, and so is the AWS launch calendar. This week that energy showed up in a new frontier model on Amazon Bedrock, a desktop app for Amazon […]

Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) Volume Clones now supports copying EBS volumes across AWS accounts with re-encryption. You can copy EBS volumes to any AWS account, re-encrypting with an AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS) key in the target account. This enables organizations that separate production and development workloads into different accounts to copy data across those account boundaries. With cross-account copy, you can clone a production database volume into an isolated development account, giving developers a fresh copy of production data to experiment with safely. This capability also supports teams that require encryption key separation across environments, such as maintaining separate KMS keys for production and non-production accounts. Cross-account copy is supported for all volume types, including unencrypted volumes and volumes encrypted with customer managed keys. To copy a volume across accounts, you first share the volume with the target account using AWS Resource Access Manager (AWS RAM), and then the target account creates a copy of the shared volume in the same Availability Zone. You can access this capability using the AWS Management Console, AWS Command Line Interface (CLI), and AWS SDKs. It is available in all AWS Regions that support Amazon EBS Volume Clones, including all Commercial Regions, the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions, AWS China Regions, and supported Local Zones. To learn more, visit the Amazon EBS Volume Clones documentation.

Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) Volume Clones now supports copying EBS volumes across AWS accounts with re-encryption. You can copy EBS volumes to any AWS account, re-encrypting with an AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS) key in the target account. This enables organizations that separate production and development workloads into different accounts to copy data across those account boundaries. With cross-account copy, you can clone a production database volume into an isolated development account, giving developers a fresh copy of production data to experiment with safely. This capability also supports teams that require encryption key separation across environments, such as maintaining separate KMS keys for production and non-production accounts. Cross-account copy is supported for all volume types, including unencrypted volumes and volumes encrypted with customer managed keys. To copy a volume across accounts, you first share the volume with the target account using AWS Resource Access Manager (AWS RAM), and then the target account creates a copy of the shared volume in the same Availability Zone. You can access this capability using the AWS Management Console, AWS Command Line Interface (CLI), and AWS SDKs. It is available in all AWS Regions that support Amazon EBS Volume Clones, including all Commercial Regions, the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions, AWS China Regions, and supported Local Zones. To learn more, visit the Amazon https://docs.aws.amazon.com/ebs/latest/userguide/ebs-copying-volume.html.