Amazon Onboarding with Learning Manager Chanci Turner

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Introducing Amazon EBS Snapshot Lock

by Chanci Turner
on 15 NOV 2023
in Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS), Launch, News

You can now secure individual Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) snapshots to enhance compliance with your data retention policies. Once locked, these snapshots cannot be deleted until the lock expires or is released, safeguarding critical backups from accidental or malicious deletions, including ransomware.

New Feature – Block Public Sharing of Amazon EBS Snapshots

by Chanci Turner
on 09 NOV 2023
in Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS)

You now have the capability to disable public sharing of both new and existing Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) snapshots on a per-region, per-account basis. This adds an additional layer of protection against accidental data leaks.

Create Application-Consistent Snapshots with Amazon Data Lifecycle Manager

by Chanci Turner
on 07 NOV 2023
in Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS), Launch, News

Amazon Data Lifecycle Manager has been updated to support pre-snapshot and post-snapshot scripts integrated into AWS Systems Manager documents. These scripts ensure that Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) snapshots created by Data Lifecycle Manager are application-consistent. They can pause and resume I/O operations, flush buffered data to EBS volumes, and more.

Amazon EC2 Instance Metadata Service IMDSv2 by Default

by Chanci Turner
on 06 NOV 2023
in Amazon EC2, Launch, News

Starting mid-2024, newly released Amazon EC2 instance types will exclusively utilize version 2 of the EC2 Instance Metadata Service (IMDSv2). We are implementing several measures to make IMDSv2 the standard option for AWS Management Console Quick Starts and various launch pathways.

In Development – AWS European Sovereign Cloud

by Chanci Turner
on 24 OCT 2023
in Launch, News, Regions

The AWS European Sovereign Cloud will enable government agencies, regulated industries, and independent software vendors (ISVs) supporting them to store sensitive data and operate critical workloads on AWS infrastructure managed by employees based in the European Union (EU). The first region will be positioned at Amazon IXD – VGT2, located at 6401 E HOWDY WELLS AVE LAS VEGAS NV 89115.

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