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AWS Week in Review – September 5, 2022

Post Syndicated from Danilo Poccia original https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-week-in-review-september-5-2022/

This post is part of our Week in Review series. Check back each week for a quick roundup of interesting news and announcements from AWS!

As a new week begins, let’s quickly look back at the most significant AWS news from the previous seven days.

Last Week’s Launches
Here are the launches that got my attention last week:

AWS announces open-sourced credentials-fetcher to simplify Microsoft AD access from Linux containers. You can find more in the What’s New post.

AWS Step Functions now has 14 new intrinsic functions that help you process data more efficiently and make it easier to perform data processing tasks such as array manipulation, JSON object manipulation, and math functions within your workflows without having to invoke downstream services or add Task states.

AWS SAM CLI esbuild support is now generally available. You can now use esbuild in the SAM CLI build workflow for your JavaScript applications.

Amazon QuickSight launches a new user interface for dataset management that replaces the existing popup dialog modal with a full-page experience, providing a clearer breakdown of dataset management categories.

AWS GameKit adds Unity support. With this release for Unity, you can integrate cloud-based game features into Win64, MacOS, Android, or iOS games from both the Unreal and Unity engines with just a few clicks.

AWS and VMware announce VMware Cloud on AWS integration with Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP. Read more in Veliswa‘s blog post.

The AWS Region in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) is now open. More info in Marcia‘s blog post.

View of Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates

For a full list of AWS announcements, be sure to keep an eye on the What’s New at AWS page.

Other AWS News
A few more blog posts you might have missed:

Easy analytics and cost-optimization with Amazon Redshift Serverless – Four different use cases of Redshift Serverless are discussed in this post.

Building cost-effective AWS Step Functions workflows – In this blog post, Ben explains the difference between Standard and Express Workflows, including costs, migrating from Standard to Express, and some interesting ways of using both together.

How to subscribe to the new Security Hub Announcements topic for Amazon SNS – You can now receive updates about new Security Hub services and features, newly supported standards and controls, and other Security Hub changes.

Deploying AWS Lambda functions using AWS Controllers for Kubernetes (ACK) – With the ACK service controller for AWS Lambda, you can provision and manage Lambda functions with kubectl and custom resources.

For AWS open-source news and updates, here’s the latest newsletter curated by Ricardo to bring you the most recent updates on open-source projects, posts, events, and more.

Upcoming AWS Events
Depending on where you are on this planet, there are many opportunities to meet and learn:

AWS Summits – Come together to connect, collaborate, and learn about AWS. Registration is open for the following in-person AWS Summits: Ottawa (September 8), New Delhi (September 9), Mexico City (September 21–22), Bogotá (October 4), and Singapore (October 6).

AWS Community DaysAWS Community Day events are community-led conferences to share and learn with one another. In September, the AWS community in the US will run events in the Bay Area, California (September 9) and Arlington, Virginia (September 30). In Europe, Community Day events will be held in October. Join us in Amersfoort, Netherlands (October 3), Warsaw, Poland (October 14), and Dresden, Germany (October 19).

That’s all from me for this week. Come back next Monday for another Week in Review!

Danilo

Now Open–AWS Region in the United Arab Emirates (UAE)

Post Syndicated from Marcia Villalba original https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/now-open-aws-region-in-the-united-arab-emirates-uae/

View of Abu Dhabi in the United Arab EmiratesThe AWS Region in the United Arab Emirates is now open. The official name is Middle East (UAE), and the API name is me-central-1. You can start using it today to deploy workloads and store your data in the United Arab Emirates. The AWS Middle East (UAE) Region is the second Region in the Middle East, joining the AWS Middle East (Bahrain) Region.

The Middle East (UAE) Region has three Availability Zones that you can use to reliably spread your applications across multiple data centers. Each Availability Zone is a fully isolated partition of AWS infrastructure that contains one or more data centers.

Availability Zones are in separate and distinct geographic locations with enough distance to reduce the risk of a single event affecting the availability of the Region but near enough for business continuity for applications that require rapid failover and synchronous replication. This gives you the ability to operate production applications that are more highly available, more fault-tolerant, and more scalable than would be possible from a single data center.

Instances and Services
Applications running in this three-AZ Region can use C5, C5d, C6g, M5, M5d, M6g, M6gd, R5, R5d, R6g, I3, I3en, T3, and T4g instances, and can use a long list of AWS services including: Amazon API Gateway, Amazon Aurora, AWS AppConfig, Amazon CloudWatch, Amazon CloudWatch Logs, Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling, Amazon ElastiCache, Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS), Elastic Load Balancing, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), Amazon Elastic Container Registry (Amazon ECR), Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS), Amazon EMR, Amazon OpenSearch Service, Amazon EventBridge, Amazon Kinesis Data Streams, Amazon Redshift, Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS), Amazon Route 53, Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS), Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS), Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), Amazon Simple Workflow Service (Amazon SWF), Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC), AWS Application Auto Scaling, AWS Certificate Manager, AWS CloudFormation, AWS CloudTrail, AWS CodeDeploy, AWS Config, AWS Database Migration Service, AWS Direct Connect, AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM), AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS), AWS Lambda, AWS Marketplace, AWS Health Dashboard, AWS Secrets Manager, AWS Step Functions, AWS Support API, AWS Systems Manager, AWS Trusted Advisor, VM Import/Export, AWS VPN, and AWS X-Ray.

AWS in the Middle East
In addition to the two Regions—Bahrain and UAE—the Middle East has two AWS Direct Connect locations, allowing customers to establish private connectivity between AWS and their data centers and offices, as well as two Amazon CloudFront edge locations, one in Dubai and another in Fujairah. The UAE Region also offers low-latency connections to other AWS Regions in the area, as shown in the following chart:

Chart showing Latency (ms) from AWS Middle East UAE Region. To AWS Europe (Ireland) Region 127 ms. To Amman, Jordan 38 ms. To Jeddah, Saudi Arabia 34 ms. To Dammam, Saudi Arabia 30 ms. To Kuwait City, Kuwait 23 ms. To AWS Asia Pacific (Mumbai) Region 23 ms. To Riyadh, Saudi Arabia 19 ms. To Muscat, Oman 8 ms. To AWS Middle East (Bahrain) Region 8 ms.

Since 2017, AWS has established offices in Dubai and Bahrain along with a broad network of partners. We continue to build our teams in the Middle East by adding account managers, solutions architects, business developers, and professional services consultants to help customers of all sizes build or move their workloads to the cloud. Visit the Amazon career page to check out the roles we are hiring for.

In addition to Infrastructure, AWS continues to make investments in education initiatives, training, and start-up enablement to support UAE’s digital transformation and economic development plans.

  • AWS Activate – This global program provides start-ups with credits, training, and support so they can build their business on AWS.
  • AWS Training and Certification – This program helps developers build cloud skills using digital or classroom training and to validate those skills by earning an industry-recognized credential.
  • AWS Educate and AWS Academy – These programs provide higher education institutions, educators, and students with cloud computing courses and certifications.

AWS Customers in the Middle East
We have many amazing customers in the Middle East that are doing incredible things with AWS, for example:

The Ministry of Health and Prevention (MoHAP) implements the health care policy in the UAE. MoHAP is working with AWS to modernize their patient experience. With AWS, MoHAP can connect 100 percent of care providers—public and private—to further enhance their data strategy to support predictive and population health programs.

GEMS Education is one of the largest private K–12 operators in the world. Using AWS services like artificial intelligence and machine learning, GEMS developed an all-in-one integrated ED Tech platform called LearnOS. This platform supports teachers and creates personalized learning experiences. For example, with the use of Amazon Rekognition, they reduced 93 percent of the time spent in marking attendance. They also developed an automated quiz generation and assessment platform using Amazon EC2 and Amazon SageMaker. In addition, the algorithms can predict student year-end performance with up to 95 percent accuracy and recommend personalized reading materials.

YAP is a fast-growing regional financial super app that focuses on improving the digital banking experience. It functions as an independent app with no physical branches, making it the first of its kind in the UAE. AWS has helped fuel YAP’s growth and enabled them to scale to become a leading regional FinTech, giving them the elasticity to control costs as their user base has grown to over 130,000 users. With AWS, YAP can scale fast as they launch new markets, reducing the time to build and deploy complete infrastructure from months to weeks.

Available Now
The new Middle East (UAE) Region is ready to support your business. You can find a detailed list of the services available in this Region on the AWS Regional Service List.

With this launch, AWS now spans 87 Availability Zones within 27 geographic Regions around the world. We also have announced plans for 21 more Availability Zones and seven more AWS Regions in Australia, Canada, India, Israel, New Zealand, Spain, and Switzerland.

For more information on our global infrastructure, upcoming Regions, and the custom hardware we use, visit the Global Infrastructure page.

Marcia

AWS Week in Review – August 29, 2022

Post Syndicated from Antje Barth original https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-week-in-review-august-29-2022/

I’ve just returned from data and machine learning (ML) conferences in Los Angeles and San Francisco, California. It’s been great to chat with customers and developers about the latest technology trends and use cases. This past week has also been packed with launches at AWS.

Last Week’s Launches
Here are some launches that got my attention during the previous week:

Amazon QuickSight announces fine-grained visual embedding. You can now embed individual visuals from QuickSight dashboards in applications and portals to provide key insights to users where they’re needed most. Check out Donnie’s blog post to learn more, and tune into this week’s The Official AWS Podcast episode.

Sample Web App with a Visual

Sample Web App with a Visual

Amazon SageMaker Automatic Model Tuning is now available in the Europe (Milan), Africa (Cape Town), Asia Pacific (Osaka), and Asia Pacific (Jakarta) Regions. In addition, SageMaker Automatic Model Tuning now reuses SageMaker Training instances to reduce start-up overheads by 20x. In scenarios where you have a large number of hyperparameter evaluations, the reuse of training instances can cumulatively save 2 hours for every 50 sequential evaluations.

Amazon RDS now supports setting up connectivity between your RDS database and EC2 compute instance in one click. Amazon RDS automatically sets up your VPC and related network settings during database creation to enable a secure connection between the EC2 instance and the RDS database.

In addition, Amazon RDS for Oracle now supports managed Oracle Data Guard Switchover and Automated Backups for replicas. With the Oracle Data Guard Switchover feature, you can reverse the roles between the primary database and one of its standby databases (replicas) with no data loss and a brief outage. You can also now create Automated Backups and manual DB snapshots of an RDS for Oracle replica, which reduces the time spent taking backups following a role transition.

Amazon Forecast now supports what-if analyses. Amazon Forecast is a fully managed service that uses ML algorithms to deliver highly accurate time series forecasts.  You can now use what-if analyses to quantify the potential impact of business scenarios on your demand forecasts.

AWS Asia Pacific (Jakarta) Region now supports additional AWS services and EC2 instance types – Amazon SageMaker, AWS Application Migration Service, AWS Glue, Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS (ROSA), and Amazon EC2 X2idn and X2iedn instances are now available in the Asia Pacific (Jakarta) Region.

For a full list of AWS announcements, be sure to keep an eye on the What’s New at AWS page.

Other AWS News
Here are some additional news, blog posts, and fun code competitions you may find interesting:

Scaling AI and Machine Learning Workloads with Ray on AWS – This past week, I attended Ray Summit in San Francisco, California, and had great conversations with the community. Check out this blog post to learn more about AWS contributions to the scalability and operational efficiency of Ray on AWS.

Ray on AWS

New AWS Heroes – It’s great to see both new and familiar faces joining the AWS Heroes program, a worldwide initiative that acknowledges individuals who have truly gone above and beyond to share knowledge in technical communities. Get to know them in the blog post!

DFL Bundesliga Data ShootoutDFL Deutsche Fußball Liga launched a code competition, powered by AWS: the Bundesliga Data Shootout. The task: Develop a computer vision model to classify events on the pitch. Join the competition as an individual or in a team and win prizes.

Become an AWS GameDay World Champion – AWS GameDay is an interactive, team-based learning experience designed to put your AWS skills to the test by solving real-world problems in a gamified, risk-free environment. Developers of all skill levels can get in on the action, to compete for worldwide glory, as well as a chance to claim the top prize: an all-expenses-paid trip to AWS re:Invent Las Vegas 2022!

Learn more about the AWS Impact Accelerator for Black Founders from one of the inaugural members of the program in this blog post. The AWS Impact Accelerator is a series of programs designed to help high-potential, pre-seed start-ups led by underrepresented founders succeed.

Upcoming AWS Events
Check your calendars and sign up for these AWS events:

AWS SummitAWS Global Summits – AWS Global Summits are free events that bring the cloud computing community together to connect, collaborate, and learn about AWS.

Registration is open for the following in-person AWS Summits that might be close to you in August and September: Canberra (August 31), Ottawa (September 8), New Delhi (September 9), and Mexico City (September 21–22), Bogotá (October 4), and Singapore (October 6).

AWS Community DayAWS Community DaysAWS Community Day events are community-led conferences that deliver a peer-to-peer learning experience, providing developers with a venue for them to acquire AWS knowledge in their preferred way: from one another.

In September, the AWS community will host events in the Bay Area, California (September 9) and in Arlington, Virginia (September 30). In October, you can join Community Days in Amersfoort, Netherlands (October 3), in Warsaw, Poland (October 14), and in Dresden, Germany (October 19).

That’s all for this week. Check back next Monday for another Week in Review! And maybe I’ll see you at the AWS Community Day here in the Bay Area!

Antje

This post is part of our Week in Review series. Check back each week for a quick roundup of interesting news and announcements from AWS!

Understand resiliency patterns and trade-offs to architect efficiently in the cloud

Post Syndicated from Haresh Nandwani original https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/architecture/understand-resiliency-patterns-and-trade-offs-to-architect-efficiently-in-the-cloud/

This post was originally published in June 2022 and is now updated with more information on efficiently architecting resilient patterns in the cloud.


Architecting workloads for resilience on the cloud often need to evaluate multiple factors before they can decide the most optimal architecture for their workloads.

Example Corp has multiple applications with varying criticality, and each of their applications have different needs in terms of resiliency, complexity, and cost. They have many choices to architect their workloads for resiliency and cost, but which option suits their needs best? What should they consider when choosing the patterns most appropriate for the needs of their applications?

To help answer these questions, we’ll discuss the five resilience patterns in Figure 1 and the trade-offs to consider when implementing them: 1) design complexity, 2) cost to implement, 3) operational effort, 4) effort to secure, and 5) environmental impact. This will help you achieve varying levels of resiliency and make decisions about the most appropriate architecture for your needs. Our intent is to provide a high-level approach to structure conversations on trade-offs associated with each of these patterns. For a deeper dive on each pattern, please navigate to the Further reading section at the end of this post.

Note: these patterns are not mutually exclusive; you may decide to implement a combination of one of more patterns.

Resilience patterns and trade-offs

Figure 1. Resilience patterns and trade-offs

What is resiliency? Why does it matter?

The AWS Well-Architected Framework defines resilience as having “the capability to recover when stressed by load (more requests for service), attacks (either accidental through a bug, or deliberate through intention), and failure of any component in the workload’s components.”

To meet your business’ resilience requirements, consider the following core factors as you design your workloads:

  • Design complexity – An increase in system complexity typically increases the emergent behaviors of that system. Each individual workload component has to be resilient, and you’ll need to eliminate single points of failure across people, process, and technology elements. Customers should consider their resilience requirements and decide if increasing system complexity is an effective approach, or if keeping the system simple and using a disaster recovery (DR) plan is be more appropriate.
  • Cost to implement – Costs often significantly increase when you implement higher resilience because there are new software and infrastructure components to operate. It’s important for such costs to be offset by the potential costs of future loss.
  • Operational effort – Deploying and supporting highly resilient systems requires complex operational processes and advanced technical skills. For example, customers might need to improve their operational processes using the Operational Readiness Review (ORR) approach. Before you decide to implement higher resilience, evaluate your operational competency to confirm you have the required level of process maturity and skillsets.
  • Effort to secure – Security complexity is less directly correlated with resilience. However, there are generally more components to secure for highly resilient systems. Using security best practices for cloud deployments can achieve security objectives without adding significant complexity even with a higher deployment footprint.
  • Environmental impact – An increased deployment footprint for resilient systems may increase your consumption of cloud resources. However, you can use trade-offs, like approximate computing and deliberately implementing slower response times to reduce resource consumption. The AWS Well-Architected Sustainability Pillar describes these patterns and provides guidance on sustainability best practices.

Pattern 1 (P1): Multi-AZ

P1 is a cloud-based architecture pattern (Figure 2) that introduces Availability Zones (AZs) into your architecture to increase your system’s resilience. The P1 pattern uses a Multi-AZ architecture where applications operate in multiple AZs within a single AWS Region. This allows your application to withstand AZ-level impacts.

As shown in Figure 2, Example Corp deploys their internal employee applications using the P1 pattern. These applications are low business impact and therefore have lower requirements for resiliency.

Example Corp deploys their low-business-impact applications as a single Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instance managed by an Auto Scaling group. Amazon EC2 uses health checks to automatically detect faults. If an AZ fails, Amazon EC2 prompts an Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling group to recreate their application in another unaffected AZ.

Multi-AZ deployment pattern (P1)

Figure 2. Multi-AZ deployment pattern (P1)

Trade-offs

P1 is low in several categories and mitigates a disruption to the AZ hosting the application, but this comes at the expense of application recovery. If an AZ is down, it will disrupt end users’ access to the application while the new resources are being re-provisioned in a new AZ. This is known as bi-modal behavior.

Pattern 2 (P2): Multi-AZ with static stability

P2 uses multiple instances across multiple AZs within a Region to increase resilience. The pattern uses static stability to prevent bimodal behavior. Statically stable systems remain stable and operate in one mode, irrespective of changes to their operating environment. A key benefit of a statically stable system on AWS is it reduces complexity of recovery during a disruption thanks to pre-provisioned resource capacity. Any resources needed to maintain operations during a disruption, such as the loss of resources in an AZ, already exist and AWS service control planes do not need to be available for recovery to be successful. To learn more about static stability, data planes and control planes read the builder’s library article Static stability using Availability Zones.

As shown in Figure 3, Example Corp has a customer-facing website that has a lower tolerance for downtime. Any time the website is down, it could result in lost revenue. Because of this, the website requires two EC2 instances that are provisioned within two AZs. Using health checks, when the AZ becomes impaired, the website continues to operate as the Elastic Load Balancer diverts traffic away from the impacted AZ. For more on using health checks, see the Implementing health checks article in The Amazon Builder’s Library.

Multi-AZ with static stability pattern (P2)

Figure 3. Multi-AZ with static stability pattern (P2)

Trade-offs

P2 mitigates an AZ disruption without downtime to application clients but must be weighed against cost concerns. P1 is less expensive from an infrastructure cost perspective, as it provisions less compute capacity and relies on launching new instances in case of a failure. However, P1’s bimodal behavior can affect your customers during large-scale events.

Implementing P2 requires your application to support distributed operation across multiple instances. If your application can support this pattern, you can deploy your workload to all available AZs (usually 3 or more) across the Region. This will reduce costs associated with over-provisioning because you only have to provision 150% of your capacity across three AZs compared with the 200% in two AZs (as mentioned in our earlier example).

Pattern 3 (P3): Application portfolio distribution

P3 uses a Multi-Region pattern to increase functional resilience, as demonstrated in Figure 4. It distributes different critical applications in multiple Regions.

Example Corp provides banking services, like credit balance checks, to consumers on multiple digital channels. These services are available to consumers via a mobile application, contact center, and web-based applications. Each digital channel is deployed to a separate Region, which mitigates against a regional service disruption.

For example, a Region with the customers’ mobile application may have a disruption that causes the mobile app to be unavailable, but customers can still access banking services via online banking deployed in an alternate Region. Regional service disruptions are rare, but implementing a pattern like this ensures your users retain access to business-critical services during disruptions.

Application portfolio distribution pattern (P3)

Figure 4. Application portfolio distribution pattern (P3)

Trade-offs

P3 mitigates the possibility of a regional service disruption impacting a multitude of systems at the same time. Operating an application portfolio that spans multiple Regions requires significant operational planning and management. Isolated functional elements may depend on common downstream systems and data sources that are deployed in a single Region. Therefore, Region-wide events may still cause disruption, but the impact surface area should be reduced.

Pattern 4 (P4): Multi-AZ deployment (multi-Region DR)

Example Corp operates several business-critical services that have a very low tolerance for disruption, such as the ability for consumers to make bank payments. Example Corp reviewed the four common patterns for DR (as defined in Disaster Recovery of Workloads on AWS: Recovery in the Cloud) and decided to use the following sub-patterns for their multi-Region applications:

  • Pilot Light – This pattern works for applications that require RTO/RPO of 10s of minutes. Data is actively replicated and application infrastructure is pre-provisioned in the DR Region. Cost optimization is a key driver here, as the application infrastructure is kept switched-off and only switched-on during the restore event.
  • Warm Standby – This pattern improves restore times significantly compared with pilot light by keeping your applications running in the DR Region but with a reduced capacity. Application infrastructure will be scaled up during a DR event, but this can typically be automated with minimal manual effort. This pattern can achieve RTO/RPO of minutes if implemented correctly.

Trade-offs

P4 mitigates a disruption to a regional service while reducing mitigation costs. Regional DR patterns increase deployment complexity as infrastructure changes need to be synchronized across Regions. Testing resilience is also significantly more complex and include simulating regional disruptions. Using Infrastructure as Code to automate deployments can help alleviate these issues.

Pattern 5 (P5): Multi-Region active-active

Example Corp’s core banking and Customer Relationship Management applications have zero tolerance for disruption. They use the P5 pattern for deploying these applications because it has an RTO of real-time and an RPO of near-zero data loss. They run their workload simultaneously in multiple Regions, allowing them to serve traffic from all Regions simultaneously. This pattern not only mitigates against regional disruptions but also addresses their zero tolerance requirements (Figure 5).

Multi-Region active-active pattern (P5)

Figure 5. Multi-Region active-active pattern (P5)

Trade-offs

P5 mitigates the disruption of a regional service, and invests additional costs and complexity to deliver a RTO of near zero. Multi-active deployments are generally complex, as they include multiple applications that collaborate to deliver required business services. If you implement this pattern, you’ll need to consider the fact that you’re introducing asynchronous replication for data across Regions and the impact that has on data consistency.

Operating this pattern requires a very high level of process maturity, so we recommend customers gradually build towards this pattern by starting with the deployment patterns described earlier.

Conclusion

In this blog post, we introduced five resilience patterns and trade-offs to consider when implementing them. In an effort to help you find the most efficient architecture for your use case, we demonstrated how Example Corp evaluated these options and how they applied them to their business needs.

Further reading

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Amazon Cognito launches support for in-Region integration with Amazon SES and Amazon SNS

Post Syndicated from Amit Jha original https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/security/amazon-cognito-launches-support-for-in-region-integration-with-amazon-ses-and-amazon-sns/

We are pleased to announce that in all AWS Regions that support Amazon Cognito, you can now integrate Amazon Cognito with Amazon Simple Email Service (Amazon SES) and Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) in the same Region. By integrating these services in the same Region, you can more easily achieve lower latency, and remove cross-Region dependencies in your architecture. Amazon Cognito lets you add authentication, authorization, and user management to your web and mobile apps. Amazon Cognito scales to millions of users and supports sign-in with social identity providers such as Apple, Facebook, Google, and Amazon, and enterprise identity providers that support SAML 2.0 and OpenID Connect (OIDC).

Amazon Cognito launched new console experience in 2021 that makes it even easier for you to manage Amazon Cognito user pools and add sign-in and sign-up functionality to your applications. The new console has now been further enhanced to configure the in-Region Amazon SES options as shown in Figure 1, and Amazon SNS options as shown in Figure 2. Also you can configure the same via Amazon Cognito APIs. Thus you can update your in-Region Amazon SES, Amazon SNS configuration options through the console, API, or CLI. You can use Amazon Cognito in a Region that suits your business requirements and sustainability goals, and extend your Amazon Cognito architecture to additional Regions.

Figure 1: Amazon SES Region drop-down selection with new options

Figure 1: Amazon SES Region drop-down selection with new options

Figure 2: Amazon SNS Region selection drop-down selection with new options

Figure 2: Amazon SNS Region selection drop-down selection with new options

In-Region integration with Amazon SES and Amazon SNS is currently available in all Regions where Amazon SES, Amazon SNS and Amazon Cognito are available. For up to date information, see the AWS Regional Services List. To learn more, see What is Amazon Cognito?.

Frequently asked questions (FAQs)

What Region will Amazon Cognito console default to when I configure Amazon SES and Amazon SNS Regions?

When creating new user pools, the Amazon Cognito console auto-populates the Region to in-Region, but you still have to select the identity. Existing user pools with cross-Region Amazon SES or Amazon SNS integration will not be affected.

Can I update an existing user pool to integrate with Amazon SES or Amazon SNS in the same Region?

Yes, you can change your configuration so that Amazon Cognito integrates with either Amazon SES or Amazon SNS, or both, in the same Region.

What Regions can I use with Amazon Cognito for Amazon SNS and Amazon SES?

For most up-to date mapping of Regions to use, see the table in SMS message settings for Amazon Cognito user pools.

Why should I change from cross-Region to same-Region Amazon SES or Amazon SNS?

Amazon Cognito is designed to scale to millions of users. Your users expect prompt delivery of their messages for multi-factor authentication and account setup. Using Amazon SES and Amazon SNS in the same Region as your user pool improves performance by reducing the round-trip time of the call that Amazon Cognito makes to Amazon SES or Amazon SNS.

What are the key benefits of using in-Region integration?

Availability: Availability is improved as you no longer will have cross-Region dependency for Amazon SES or Amazon SNS.

Latency: Transit time for API requests is most efficient within a single AWS Region.

Usability: Billing, logging, and setup are more transparent when you consolidate resources in the same Region.

Which version of Amazon Cognito user pools console does this change apply to?

This change applies to current version of the new Amazon Cognito user pool console experience. Also this change applies to current version of Amazon Cognito APIs.

Will my current cross-Region integration change?

No. Your AWS resources are your own and will not be changed. If you want to make use of the new in-Region integration, you must update your user pool configuration to integrate with Amazon SES or Amazon SNS in the same AWS Region.

Will I be placed in the SMS sandbox if I change my Amazon SNS Region?

The SMS sandbox status is Region dependent, so whether or not your user pool is in the SMS sandbox depends on the SNS Region you configure in your user pool. When your account is in the SMS sandbox, Amazon Cognito can send SMS text messages only to verified phone numbers and not to all of your users. When you move to a new Region, verified phone numbers will also need to be re-verified. For more information, see SMS message settings for Amazon Cognito user pools.

To find info about whether your user pool is configured in an SNS Region that is in the SMS sandbox, you can view the SmsConfigurationFailure field in DescribeUserPool API.

Which API parameters can developers use to make the in-Region changes?

Amazon SES: verified Amazon SES identities from the new Regions will be allowed through SourceArn parameters in the AWS::Cognito::UserPool EmailConfiguration type, and in the AWS::Cognito:: RiskConfiguration NotifyConfiguration type.

Amazon SNS: There is now a new parameter called SnsRegionM in the SmsConfiguration type in the following APIs:

Will my automation scripts break due to this change?

This change to support in-Region integration will not break your automation scripts. If future updates include changing the default Region value to in-Region, we plan to inform all Amazon Cognito customers about this change with sufficient time to transition to the new default Region value.

Can I revert to my original Region integration if I run into an issue?

Yes, the ability to use Amazon SES or Amazon SNS resources in a different AWS Region is still supported.

Next steps

If your Amazon Cognito user pool is currently configured to make cross-Region calls to Amazon SES or Amazon SNS, you can update your configuration through the console, API, or CLI.

If you have any questions or issues, you can start a new thread on AWS re:Post, contact AWS Support, or your technical account manager (TAM).

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Amit Jha

Amit Jha

Amit is a Developer Advocate with focus on Security/Identity. Amit has 18+ years of industry experience as a software developer & Architect. Prior to his current role, he served multiple roles at Microsoft for 11+ years helping large enterprises with Software architecture and custom development consulting.

Now Open – AWS Asia Pacific (Jakarta) Region

Post Syndicated from Jeff Barr original https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/now-open-aws-asia-pacific-jakarta-region/

The AWS Region in Jakarta, Indonesia, is now open and you can start using it today. The official name is Asia Pacific (Jakarta) and the API name is ap-southeast-3. The AWS Asia Pacific (Jakarta) Region is the tenth active AWS Region in Asia Pacific and mainland China along with Beijing, Hong Kong, Mumbai, Ningxia, Osaka, Seoul, Singapore, Sydney, and, Tokyo. With this launch, AWS now spans 84 Availability Zones within 26 geographic regions around the world. We have also announced plans for 24 more Availability Zones and eight more AWS Regions in Australia, Canada, India, Israel, New Zealand, Spain, Switzerland, and the United Arab Emirates.

Instances and Services
Applications running in this 3-AZ region can use C5, C5d, I3, I3en, M5, M5d, R5, R5d, and T3 instances, and can use a long list of AWS services including Amazon API Gateway, Application Auto Scaling, AWS Certificate Manager (ACM), AWS CloudFormation, Amazon CloudFront, AWS CloudTrail, Amazon CloudWatch, CloudWatch Events, Amazon CloudWatch Logs, AWS CodeDeploy, AWS Config, AWS Database Migration Service, AWS Direct Connect, Amazon DynamoDB, EC2 Auto Scaling, Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS), Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), Amazon Elastic Container Registry, Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS), Application Load Balancers (Classic, Network, and Application), Amazon EMR, Amazon ElastiCache, Amazon Elasticsearch Service, Amazon Glacier, AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM), Amazon Kinesis Data Streams, AWS Key Management Service (KMS), AWS Lambda, AWS Marketplace, AWS Organizations, AWS Personal Health Dashboard, Amazon Redshift, Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS), Amazon Aurora, Amazon Route 53 (including Private DNS for VPCs), Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS), Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS), Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), Amazon Simple Workflow Service (SWF), AWS Step Functions, AWS Support API, AWS Systems Manager, AWS Trusted Advisor, Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), and VM Import/Export.

Using the Asia Pacific (Jakarta) Region
As is the case with all of the newer AWS Regions, you need to explicitly enable this one in order to be able to create and manage resources within it. To learn how to do this, read Using the Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) Region in my post, Now Open – AWS Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) Region.

Connectivity, Edge Locations, and Latency
Jakarta is already home to a Amazon CloudFront edge location that was opened earlier this year, along with two brand-new AWS Direct Connect locations. In addition to this in-country infrastructure, there are more than sixty other edge locations and multiple regional edge caches in Asia, as detailed on the AWS Global Infrastructure page.

The region offers low-latency connections to other AWS regions in the area. Here are the latest numbers:

Many AWS services give you options to replicate your data across multiple AWS regions. You can replicate S3 buckets to multiple destinations (and use Multi-Region Access Points so your users access the closest one), copy EC2 AMIs between regions, set up cross-region Amazon Aurora Read Replicas, replicate container images, and more. You can set up Amazon DynamoDB Global Tables that span any desired regions, and you can set up inter-region VPC peering. To learn more about how to build applications that span regions, be sure to check out our Multi-Region Application Architecture solution.

AWS in Indonesia
With this launch we are making a long-term commitment to growing our business in Indonesia, and expect to create an average of 24,700 jobs annually over the next 15 years. This includes the direct AWS supply chain (construction, facility maintenance, electricity, and telecommunications) along with the growth that this drives in the broader Indonesian economy.

We have been investing in Southeast Asia and Indonesia for many years. The first AWS office in Jakarta opened in 2018 to help support our customers, and now employs developer advocates, solutions architects, account managers, and partner managers, with hiring for other roles now underway.

Back in 2019 we announced a goal to train and empower hundreds of thousands of Indonesians with proficiency in cloud services by 2025. In collaboration with the Indonesian government and with the help of both AWS partners and educational institutions, we have already trained over 200,000 people. We are doing this through multiple routes and programs including:

Laptops for Builders – This is a free program that teaches high school and vocational student in Bahasa, Indonesia about cloud fundamentals.

Scholarship Programs – Working closely with tech-education startup Dicoding, we are offering a free scholarship program for up to 100,000 cloud and back-end developers.

AWS Training & Certification – Attendees are gaining new skills and certifications in areas such as AWS Cloud fundamentals, big data, security, and machine learning, with several training options available.

AWS Customers in Indonesia
We have many amazing customers in Indonesia! Here are a few success stories:

Traveloka is a lifestyle superapp with a focus on Indonesia, Thailand, Vietnam, Singapore, Malaysia, the Philippines, and Australia. They offer customers in those countries an end-to-end solution that spans travel, local services, and financial services, all powered by AWS. The company was born in the cloud, and counts on AWS to let them build apps quickly and with high scalability. The Traveloka app has been downloaded over 60 million times, making it the most popular travel and lifestyle booking app in Southeast Asia.

Halodoc is an Indonesian digital health startup. They are currently running a digital reservation program to help Indonesian citizens to book and receive their COVID-19 vaccinations, while also providing the government with easier monitoring and evaluation of the vaccine rollout. During the pandemic, they have also helped to provide testing and telemedicine services, all powered by a digital platform that runs on AWS and that allows them to scale in real-time according to market demand.

Under the national movement of Learning Freedom (“Merdeka Belajar”), the Indonesian government is working to allow students to access educational resources from anywhere and at any time. Simak Online allows 300,000 students from 430 schools across Jakarta to access their learning materials and assignments, complete homework, take examples, and participate in online forum discussions. Previously hosted on-premises, Simak Online moved to AWS shortly before COVID-19 broke out in Indonesia. Before the move, they could support exams at just 50 schools simultaneously. Thanks to AWS, they can now scale up and down as needed and can support the national movement and allow students to learn online and on-demand.

A translated version of this post is available on the AWS Indonesia Blog.

Jeff;

In The Works – AWS Canada West (Calgary) Region

Post Syndicated from Jeff Barr original https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/in-the-works-aws-canada-west-calgary-region/

We launched the Canada (Central) Region in 2016 and added a third Availability Zone in 2020. Since that launch, tens of thousands of AWS customers have used AWS services in Canada to accelerate innovation, increase agility, and to drive cost savings. This includes enterprises such as Air Canada, BMO Financial Group, NHL, Porter Airlines, and Lululemon, as well as startups with global reach such as Benevity, D2L, and Hootsuite. AWS is also used by Athabasca University, Humber College, the Vancouver General Hospital, and the Canada Border Services Agency, to name a few.

Hello, Calgary
I am happy to announce that we will be opening an AWS region in Calgary, Canada in late 2023 or early 2024. This three-AZ region will reduce latency for end-users in Western Canada and will also support the development of advanced, distributed solutions that span multiple AWS regions. It will also provide additional flexibility for AWS customers that need to store and process data within Canada’s borders.

As part of our commitment to running our business in the most environmentally friendly way possible, we are also investing in renewable energy projects in Canada. We currently have two projects underway, both in Alberta: an 80 MW solar farm (announced in April 2021) and a 375 MW solar farm (announced in June 2021). Together, these projects will contribute more than one million MWh to the power grid when they come online in 2022.

This region is part of a planned investment of CAD $4.3 billion over the next 15 years, including data center construction, ongoing utilities and facilities costs, and purchases of goods & services from regional businesses. Our Economic Impact Study (EIS) estimates that the spending on infrastructure and construction over the next 15 years will increase Canada’s GDP by about CAD $4.9 billion, along with direct and indirect economic benefits including nearly 1,000 new full-time equivalent jobs in Canada.

And Then There Were Nine
With this announcement we now have a total of nine regions (Australia, Canada, India, Indonesia, Israel, New Zealand, Spain, Switzerland, and the United Arab Emirates) in the works. As always, you can find the full list of operational and planned regions on the AWS Global Infrastructure page.

Jeff;


En construction : la Région AWS Canada Ouest (Calgary)

Nous avons inauguré la Région Canada (Centre) en 2016 et ajouté une troisième Zone de disponibilité en 2020. Depuis ce lancement, des dizaines de milliers de clients d’AWS ont utilisé les services d’AWS au Canada pour accélérer l’innovation, améliorer leur agilité et réaliser des économies. Cela inclut des entreprises telles qu’Air Canada, BMO Groupe financier, la LNH, Porter Airlines et Lululemon, en plus d’entreprises en démarrage à portée mondiale telles que Benevity, D2L et Hootsuite. AWS est également utilisé par l’Université Athabasca, le Collège Humber, l’Hôpital général de Vancouver et l’Agence des services frontaliers du Canada, pour ne citer que quelques exemples.

Bonjour Calgary
Je suis heureux d’annoncer que nous allons ouvrir une Région AWS à Calgary, au Canada, à la fin de 2023 ou au début de 2024. Cette Région à trois ZD réduira la latence pour les utilisateurs finaux de l’Ouest canadien et permettra aussi de soutenir le développement de solutions avancées et distribuées couvrant plusieurs Régions AWS. De plus, elle fournira une flexibilité supplémentaire aux clients d’AWS ayant besoin de stocker et traiter des données à l’intérieur des frontières canadiennes.

Dans le cadre de notre engagement à gérer notre entreprise de la manière la plus respectueuse de l’environnement possible, nous investissons également dans des projets d’énergie renouvelable au Canada. Nous avons actuellement deux projets en cours, tous deux situés en Alberta : une ferme solaire de 80 MW (annoncée en avril 2021) et une ferme solaire de 375 MW (annoncée en juin 2021). Lorsqu’ils seront opérationnels en 2022, ces projets apporteront conjointement plus de 1 million de MWh au réseau électrique.

Cette Région fait partie d’un investissement prévu de 4,3 milliards de dollars CAD au cours des 15 prochaines années, comprenant la construction de centres de données, les dépenses opérationnelles liées aux services publics et aux installations, ainsi que les achats de biens et de services auprès d’entreprises régionales. Notre étude d’impact économique (EIE) estime que les dépenses en matière d’infrastructure et de construction au cours des 15 prochaines années augmenteront le PIB du Canada d’environ 4,9 milliards de dollars CAD, en plus des retombées économiques directes et indirectes, dont près de 1 000 nouveaux emplois équivalents temps plein au Canada.

Et en voilà une neuvième
Avec cette annonce, nous avons maintenant un total de neuf Régions en cours de réalisation (Australie, Canada, Inde, Indonésie, Israël, Nouvelle-Zélande, Espagne, Suisse et les Émirats arabes unis). Comme toujours, vous trouverez la liste complète des Régions opérationnelles et planifiées en consultant la page de l’infrastructure mondiale d’AWS.

Jeff;

AWS Local Zones Are Now Open in Las Vegas, New York City, and Portland

Post Syndicated from Sébastien Stormacq original https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-local-zones-are-now-open-in-las-vegas-new-york-city-and-portland/

Today, we are opening three new AWS Local Zones in Las Vegas, New York City (located in New Jersey), and Portland metro areas. We are now at a total of 14 Local Zones in 13 cities since Jeff Barr announced the first Local Zone in Los Angeles in December 2019. These three new Local Zones join the ones in full operation in Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Denver, Houston, Kansas City, Los Angeles, Miami, Minneapolis, and Philadelphia.

Local Zones are one of the ways we bring select AWS services much closer to large populations and geographic areas where major industries come together. By having this proximity, you can deploy latency-sensitive workloads such as real-time gaming platforms, financial transaction processing, media and entertainment content creation, or ad services. Using Local Zones for migrations or hybrid strategies are two additional use cases allowing you to migrate your applications to a nearby AWS Local Zone while still meeting the low-latency requirements of hybrid deployments.

Local Zones support the deployment of workloads using Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS), Amazon FSx for Windows File Server and Amazon FSx for Lustre, Elastic Load Balancing, Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS), and Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC). Local Zones provide a high-bandwidth, secure connection between local workloads and those running in the parent AWS Region, while offering the full range of services found in a Region through the same APIs, console and tool sets. This page lists the exact AWS services and features available in each Local Zone.

Local Zones are easy to use and can be enabled in only three clicks! This article will help you learn how to provision infrastructure in a Local Zone, which is very similar to creating infrastructure in an Availability Zone. Once enabled, Local Zones appear as additional Availability Zones in your AWS Management Console or AWS Command Line Interface (CLI).

Local Zones in Action
Examples of workloads that our customers run in Local Zones include:

Dish Wireless is building the US-telecom’s first cloud-native 5G network. They are unleashing 5G connectivity with better speed, better security, and better latency. DISH is leveraging AWS Regions, AWS Local Zones, and AWS Outposts to extend AWS infrastructure and services to wherever they – or their customers – need it.

Integral Ad Science (IAS) is a global leader in digital media quality. Every millisecond counts when it comes to delivering actionable insights for its advertiser and publisher customers. Leveraging AWS Regions and AWS Local Zones, IAS ensures rapid response times in milliseconds when analyzing data and delivering insights.

Esports Engine (a Vindex company) is a turnkey esports solutions company working with gaming publishers, rights holders, brands, and teams to provide production, broadcast, tournament, and program design. Their graphic-intensive streaming content is live-fed from the locations where the games are recorded and then broadcast from the studios to viewers. AWS Local Zones replace their previous on-premises data centers to reduce the need for support for the physical data center buildings.

Proof Trading is a financial services company looking forward to taking advantage of AWS Local Zones to bring trading workloads closer to the major trading venues located in Chicago and New Jersey. Our industry blog has a detailed article that provides more context on trading-related workloads.

Ubitus is a cloud gaming technology leader. They deploy latency-sensitive game servers all over the world to be closer to gamers. An important part of having a great gaming experience is to have consistent low-latency game plays. AWS Local Zones are a game changer for them. Now, they can easily deploy and test clusters of game servers in many cities across the US, ensuring that more customers get a consistent experience regardless of where they are located.

What’s Next?
In 2019 when we launched our first Local Zone at AWS re:Invent 2019, we said we were just getting started. In addition to today’s announcement, we are working on opening three additional Local Zones in Atlanta, Phoenix, and Seattle by the end of the year, and we keep expanding. If you would like to express your interest in a particular location, please let us know by filling out the AWS Local Zones Interest form.

We are also listening to your feedback on additional services that we should add to Local Zones, such as more EC2 instance types to give you even more flexibility.

Build and deploy your workload on a Local Zone today.

— seb

In the Works – AWS Region in Tel Aviv, Israel

Post Syndicated from Jeff Barr original https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/in-the-works-aws-region-in-tel-aviv-israel/

We launched three AWS Regions (Italy, South Africa, and Japan) in the last 12 months, and are working on regions in Australia, Indonesia, Spain, India, Switzerland, and the United Arab Emirates.

Tel Aviv, Israel in the Works
Today I am happy to announce that the AWS Israel (Tel Aviv) Region is in the works and will open in the first half of 2023. This region will have three Availability Zones and will give AWS customers in Israel the ability to run workloads and store data that must remain in-country.

There are 81 Availability Zones within 25 AWS Regions in operation today, with 21 more Availability Zones and seven announced regions (including this one) underway.

As is always the case with an AWS Region, each of the Availability Zones will be a fully isolated part of the AWS infrastructure. The AZs in this region will be connected together via high-bandwidth, low-latency network connections over dedicated, fully redundant metro fiber. This connectivity supports applications that need synchronous replication between AZs for availability or redundancy. You can take a peek at the AWS Global Infrastructure page to learn more about how we design and build regions and AZs.

AWS in Israel
I first visited Israel in 2013 and have been back several (but definitely not enough) times since then. I have spoken at several AWS Summits and visited many of early customers in the area. Today, AWS has the following resources on the ground in Israel:

Israel is also home to Annapurna Labs, an Amazon.com subsidiary that is responsible for developing much of the innovative hardware that powers AWS.

In addition, the government of Israel announced that it has selected AWS as the primary cloud provider for the Nimbus Project. As part of this project, government ministries and subsidiaries in Israel will use cloud computing to power a digital transformation and to provide new digital services for the citizens of Israel.

Stay Tuned
We’ll announce the opening of the AWS Israel (Tel Aviv) Region in a forthcoming blog post, so be sure to stay tuned!

Jeff;

 

Now Open Third Availability Zone in the AWS China (Beijing) Region

Post Syndicated from Jeff Barr original https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/now-open-third-availability-zone-in-the-aws-china-beijing-region/

I made my first trip to China in late 2008. I was able to speak to developers and entrepreneurs and to get a sense of the then-nascent market for cloud computing. With over 900 million Internet users as of 2020 (according to a recent report from China Internet Network Information Center), China now has the largest user base in the world.

A limited preview of the China (Beijing) Region was launched in 2013 and brought to general availability in 2016. A year later the AWS China (Ningxia) Region launched. In order to comply with China’s legal and regulatory requirements, we collaborated with local Chinese partners. These partners have the proper telecom licenses to provide cloud services in Mainland China. Today, developers can deploy cloud-based applications inside of using the same APIs, protocols, services, and operational practices used by our customers in other parts of the world. This commonality has been particularly attractive to multinational companies that can take advantage of their existing AWS experience when they expand their cloud infrastructure into Mainland China.

Third Availability Zone in Beijing
Today I am happy to announce that we are adding a third Availability Zone (AZ) to the China (Beijing) Region operated by Sinnet in order to support the demands of our growing customer base in China. As is the case with all AWS Availability Zones, this one encompasses one or more discrete data centers in separate facilities, each with redundant power, networking, and connectivity. With this launch, both AWS Regions in China offer three AZs and allow customers to build applications that are scalable, fault-tolerant, and highly available.

AWS Customers in the Beijing Region
Many enterprise customers in China are using the China (Beijing) Region to support their digital transformations. For example:

Yantai Shinho was founded in 1992 and now manufactures 13 popular condiments. They now have a presence in over 100 countries and supply products that tens of millions of families enjoy. They are already using the region to support their front-end and big data efforts, and plan to make use of the additional architectural options made possible by the new AZ.

Kingdee International Software Group was founded in 1993 and now provides corporate management and cloud services for more than 6.8 million enterprises and government organizations. They now have over 8,000 employees AND are committed to changing the way that hundreds of millions of people work.

As I noted earlier, our multinational customers are using the AWS Regions in China to expand their global presence. Here are a few examples:

Australian independent software vendor Canva offers its design-on-demand application to 150 million active users in 190 countries. They launched their Chinese products in August 2018, and have since built in into a first-class design platform that includes tens of millions of high-resolution pictures, Chinese fonts, original templates, and more. Chinese users have already created over 50 million designs on the Canva.cn platform.

Swire is a 200 year old business group that spans the aviation, beverage, food, industrial, marine services, and property industries. Their Swire Coca-Cola division has the exclusive right to manufacture, market, and distribute Coca-Cola products in eleven Chinese provinces, the Shanghai Municipality, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and part of the Western United States — a total customer base of 728 million people. Swire Coca-Cola’s systems primarily operate in the China (Beijing) Region and will soon make use of the third AZ.

Finally, startups are using the region to power their fast-growing businesses:

CraiditX applies machine learning technology originally developed for search engines to the financial services industry. Established in 2015, they use behavioral language processing, natural language processing, neural networks, and integrated modeling to build risk management systems.

Founded in 2016, Momenta is a Chinese startup that is building a “brain” for autonomous vehicles. Powered by deep learning and data-driven path planning, they are working on autonomous driving for passenger vehicles and full autonomy for mobile service vehicles, all deployed in the China (Beijing) Region.

81 and 25
This launch raises the global AWS footprint to a total of 81 Availability Zones across 25 geographic regions, with plans to launch 18 additional Availability Zones and six more regions in Australia, India, Indonesia, Spain, Switzerland, and United Arab Emirates (UAE).

–Jeff, with lots of help from Lillian Shao;

PS – The operator and service provider for the AWS China (Beijing) Region is Beijing Sinnet Technology Co., Ltd. The operator and service provider for the AWS China (Ningxia) Region is Ningxia Western Cloud Data Technology Co., Ltd.

In the Works – AWS Region in the United Arab Emirates (UAE)

Post Syndicated from Jeff Barr original https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/in-the-works-aws-region-in-the-united-arab-emirates-uae/

We are currently building AWS regions in Australia, Indonesia, Spain, India, and Switzerland.

UAE in the Works
I am happy to announce that the AWS Middle East (UAE) Region is in the works and will open in the first half of 2022. The new region is an extension of our existing investment, which already includes two AWS Direct Connect locations and two Amazon CloudFront edge locations, all of which have been in place since 2018. The new region will give AWS customers in the UAE the ability to run workloads and to store data that must remain in-country, in addition to the ability to serve local customers with even lower latency.

The new region will have three Availability Zones, and will be the second AWS Region in the Middle East, joining the existing AWS Region in Bahrain. There are 80 Availability Zones within 25 AWS Regions in operation today, with 15 more Availability Zones and five announced regions underway in the locations that I listed earlier.

As is always the case with an AWS Region, each of the Availability Zones will be a fully isolated part of the AWS infrastructure. The AZs in this region will be connected together via high-bandwidth, low-latency network connections to support applications that need synchronous replication between AZs for availability or redundancy.

AWS in the UAE
In addition to the upcoming AWS Region and the Direct Connect and CloudFront edge locations, we continue to build our team of account managers, partner managers, data center technicians, systems engineers, solutions architects, professional service providers, and more (check out our current positions).

We also plan to continue our on-going investments in education initiatives, training, and start-up enablement to support the UAE’s plans for economic development and digital transformation.

Our customers in the UAE are already using AWS to drive innovation! For example:

Mohammed Bin Rashid Space Centre (MBRSC) – Founded in 2006, MBSRC is home to the UAE’s National Space Program. The Hope Probe was launched last year and reached Mars in February of this year. Data from the probe’s instruments is processed and analyzed on AWS, and made available to the global scientific community in less than 20 minutes.

Anghami is the leading music platform in the Middle East and North Africa, giving over 70 million users access to 57 million songs. They have been hosting their infrastructure on AWS since their days as a tiny startup,. and have benefited from the ability to scale up by as much as 300% when new music is launched.

Sarwa is an investment bank and personal finance platform that was born on the AWS cloud in 2017. They grew by a factor of four in 2020 while processing hundreds of thousands of transactions. Recent AWS-powered innovations from Sarwa include the Sarwa App (design to market in 3 months) and the upcoming Sarwa Trade platform.

Stay Tuned
We’ll be announcing the opening of the Middle East (UAE) Region in a forthcoming blog post, so be sure to stay tuned!

Jeff;

AWS Asia Pacific (Osaka) Region Now Open to All, with Three AZs and More Services

Post Syndicated from Jeff Barr original https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-asia-pacific-osaka-region-now-open-to-all-with-three-azs-more-services/

AWS has had a presence in Japan for a long time! We opened the Asia Pacific (Tokyo) Region in March 2011, added a third Availability Zone (AZ) in 2012, and a fourth in 2018. Since that launch, customers in Japan and around the world have used the region to host an incredibly wide variety of applications!

We opened the Osaka Local Region in 2018 to give our customers in Japan a disaster recovery option for their workloads. Located 400 km from Tokyo, the Osaka Local Region used an isolated, fault-tolerant design contained within a single data center.

From Local to Standard
I am happy to announce that the Osaka Local Region has been expanded and is a now a standard AWS region, complete with three Availability Zones. As is always the case with AWS, the AZs are designed to provide physical redundancy, and are able to withstand power outages, internet downtime, floods, and other natural disasters.

The following services are available, with more in the works: Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS), Amazon API Gateway, Auto Scaling, Application Auto Scaling, Amazon Aurora, AWS Config, AWS Personal Health Dashboard, AWS IQ, AWS Organizations, AWS Secrets Manager, AWS Shield Standard (regional), AWS Snowball Edge, AWS Step Functions, AWS Systems Manager, AWS Trusted Advisor, AWS Certificate Manager, CloudEndure Migration, CloudEndure Disaster Recovery, AWS CloudFormation, Amazon CloudFront, AWS CloudTrail, Amazon CloudWatch, CloudWatch Events, Amazon CloudWatch Logs, AWS CodeDeploy, AWS Database Migration Service, AWS Direct Connect, Amazon DynamoDB, Elastic Container Registry, Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS), AWS Elastic Beanstalk, Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS), Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), EC2 Image Builder, Elastic Load Balancing, Amazon EMR, Amazon ElastiCache, Amazon EventBridge, AWS Fargate, Amazon Glacier, AWS Glue, AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM), AWS Snowball, AWS Key Management Service (KMS), Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose, Amazon Kinesis Data Streams, AWS Lambda, AWS Marketplace, AWS Mobile SDK, Network Load Balancer, Amazon Redshift, Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS), Amazon Route 53, Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS), Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS), Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3), Amazon Simple Workflow Service (SWF), AWS VPN, VM Import/Export, AWS X-Ray, AWS Artifact, AWS PrivateLink, and Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC).

The Asia Pacific (Osaka) Region supports the C5, C5d, D2, I3, I3en, M5, M5d, R5d, and T3 instance types, in On-Demand, Spot, and Reserved Instance form. X1 and X1e instances are available in a single AZ.

In addition to the AWS regions in Tokyo and Osaka, customers in Japan also benefit from:

  • 16 CloudFront edge locations in Tokyo.
  • One CloudFront edge location in Osaka.
  • One CloudFront Regional Edge Cache in Tokyo.
  • Two AWS Direct Connect locations in Tokyo.
  • One Direct Connect location in Osaka.

Here are typical latency values from the Asia Pacific (Osaka) Region to other cities in the area:

City Latency
Nagoya 2-5 ms
Hiroshima 2-5 ms
Tokyo 5-8 ms
Fukuoka 11-13 ms
Sendai 12-15 ms
Sapporo 14-17 ms
Seoul 27 ms
Taipei 29 ms
Hong Kong 38 ms
Manila 49 ms

AWS Customers in Japan
As I mentioned earlier, our customers are using the AWS regions in Tokyo and Osaka to host an incredibly wide variety of applications. Here’s a sampling:

Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG) – This financial services company adopted a cloud-first strategy and did their first AWS deployment in 2017. They have built a data platform for their banking and group data that helps them to streamline administrative processes, and also migrated a market risk management system. MUFG has been using the Osaka Local Region and is planning to use the Asia Pacific (Osaka) Region to run more workloads and to support their ongoing digital transformation.

KDDI Corporation (KDDI) – This diversified (telecommunication, financial services, Internet, electricity distribution, consumer appliance, and more) company started using AWS in 2016 after AWS met KDDI’s stringent internal security standards. They currently build and run more than 60 services on AWS, including the backend of the au Denki application, used by consumers to monitor electricity usage and rates. They plan to use the Asia Pacific (Osaka) Region to initiate multi-region service to their customers in Japan.

OGIS-RI – Founded in 1983, this global IT consulting firm is a part of the Daigas Group of companies. OSIS-RI provides information strategy, systems integration, systems development, network construction, support, and security. They use AWS to provide their enterprise customers with ekul, a data measurement service that measures and visualizes gas and electricity usage in real time and send it to corporate customers across Japan.

Sony Bank – Founded in 2001 as an asset management bank for individuals, Sony Bank provides services that include foreign currency deposits, home loans, investment trusts, and debit cards. Their gradual migration of internal banking systems to AWS began in 2013 and was 80% complete at the end of 2019. This migration reduced their infrastructure costs by 60% and more than halved the time it once took to procure and build out new infrastructure.

AWS Resources in Japan
As a quick reminder, enterprises, government and research organizations, small and medium businesses, educators, and startups in Japan have access to a wide variety of AWS and community resources. Here’s a sampling:

Available Now
The new region is open to all AWS customers and you can start to use it today!

Jeff;

 

In the Works – AWS Region in Hyderabad, India

Post Syndicated from Jeff Barr original https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/in-the-works-aws-region-in-hyderabad-india/

We opened the AWS Regions in South Africa and Italy earlier this year and are currently working on regions in Indonesia, Japan, Spain, and Switzerland. Second AWS Region in India We launched the Asia Pacific (Mumbai) Region in June 2016, giving enterprises, public sector organizations, startups, and SMBs access to state-of-the-art public cloud infrastructure. In […]