There was a score of announcements made at the Amazon conference –AWS ‘re:Invent 2018‘, including a deep dive archival storage system & a Microsoft Windows file server.
Here are the details:
The S3 Glacier Deep Archive is being touted by Amazon as a new storage class. Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) is designed for long-term data archival. Amazon says it is the lowest cost storage from any Cloud provider. It’s priced from just $0.00099/GB, a month. Data can be retrieved in 12 hours or less, & there will also be a bulk retrieval option that will allow you to inexpensively retrieve even petabytes of data within 48 hours.
The Amazon FSx for Windows File Server was designed from the ground up to work with your existing Windows applications & environments, making lift-and-shift of your Windows workloads to the Cloud super-easy. What users will get is a native Windows file system backed by fully-managed Windows file servers, accessible via the widely adopted SMB (Server Message Block) protocol. Built on SSD storage, Amazon FSx for Windows File Server delivers the throughput, IOPS, & consistent sub-millisecond performance.
Readers can click on the links below to read at length about all the other announcements.
Launches
- Amazon FSx for Windows File Server – Fast, Fully Managed, and Secure.
- Amazon FSx for Lustre.
- Amazon DynamoDB On-Demand – No Capacity Planning and Pay-Per-Request Pricing.
- Amazon Elastic Inference – GPU-Powered Deep Learning Inference Acceleration.
- Amazon SageMaker Ground Truth.
- Machine Learning algorithms and model packages now available in AWS Marketplace.
- Amazon SageMaker RL – Managed Reinforcement Learning with Amazon SageMaker.
- AWS DeepRacer – Go Hands-On with Reinforcement Learning at re:Invent.
- Amazon Personalize – Real-Time Personalization and Recommendation for Everyone.
- Amazon Forecast – Time Series Forecasting Made Easy.
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