Interface VPC endpoint offered by Amazon Athena

Amazon Athena is easy to use interactive query service which is simple to scan data with the help of standard SQL in Amazon S3. Athena is serverless, so there is no infrastructure to run, and you charge for the queries that you execute. Amazon Athena lets you to join to Athena through an interface VPC endpoint in your Virtual Private Cloud (VPC). You can submit your queries to Athena certainly excluding the need of Internet Gateway in your VPC using this new feature. You can get started with AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI) or AWS Management console to create an interface VPC endpoint to join to Amazon Athena. You must join from an instance to utilise Amazon Athena which is inside the VPC or join your private network to your VPC with the help of Amazon VPN (Virtual Private Network) or AWS Direct Connect. To know further about this feature, refer Creating an Interface Endpoint. This feature is accessible in every AWS Regions where Amazon Athena is obtainable excluding EU (Stockholm) and US (GovCloud). There are no extra charges for Amazon Athena to utilize this feature. Interface VPC endpoint charges apply. To read more on this feature, go through the documentation.

Amazon EKS gives assistance to G4 Instance

Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) is an open source and entirely organised service which makes it simple for you to execute Kubernetes on AWS excluding requirements to stand up or retain your Kubernetes control plane. Kubernetes system used for automating the deployment, scaling, and management of containerised applications. Now this Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) give assistance to adding Amazon EC2 G4 instances as worker nodes to each cluster in AWS Regions where G4 instance is obtainable. Instance G4 is the latest EC2 GPU-equipped (Graphics Processing Unit) instance and gives the commercially most cost-effective GPU platform for deploying machine learning models in production and graphics-intensive applications. G4 instances are optimized for machine learning application deployments (inference), like object detection, image classification, recommendation engines, automated speech recognition, and language translation which require access to low level GPU software libraries. To get started with G4 instance in your cluster, first you require to upgrade to 1.5.4 version of AWS VPC CNI plugin. Refer documentation to know the upgrading directions of CNI plugin. To add GPU instance to your cluster, read Amazon EKS documentation. And to know further about G4 instances, go through G4 page.

Amazon GuardDuty expanded its availability in Bahrain Region

Amazon GuardDuty is a service that never-ending threat detection service which scans suspicious activity and uncertified action to secure your AWS accounts and workloads. This can be lengthy process for security teams to constantly examine event log data for probable threats. Amazon GuardDuty service can be activated with couple of clicks in AWS Management Console without any software or hardware to deploy or maintain. GuardDuty scans billions of events over different AWS data sources like AWS CloudTrail, Amazon VPC Flow Logs, and DNS logs. Amazon GuardDuty service works on Machine Learning, Anomaly detection and threat intelligence to recognise and prioritise threats. Now Amazon GuardDuty is obtainable in the AWS Middle East (Bahrain) region. Amazon GuardDuty recognises abnormal or forbidden actions, like crypto-currency mining or infrastructure deployments in a region that has never been used. You can activate Amazon GuardDuty 30 days Free Trial from AWS Management Console. To get full list of AWS Region where Amazon GuardDuty is available, go through the AWS Regions page. And to know further details, read Amazon GuardDuty Findings.

Amazon VPC Sharing is obtainable in AWS GovCloud (US-East)

Amazon VPC allows you to initiate AWS resources into a virtual network that you have described. And with VPC sharing, you can enable other AWS accounts to build their application resources, like EC2 instances, RDS, Redshift clusters, and Lambda functions, into shared, centrally-managed Amazon VPCs. Customers make several AWS accounts to generate effective billing and control access to different environments, like development, staging, and production, over multiple business and application teams. Now, you can design independent Amazon VPCs for all account with the account holder being accountable for connectivity and security of all Amazon VPC. Using VPC sharing, IT team can possess and control your Amazon VPCs and your application developers no longer have to handle or configure Amazon VPCs, but they can access them as required. Now Amazon Virtual Private Cloud sharing (VPC sharing) is accessible in the AWS GovCloud (US-East) Region and in each commercial AWS Regions excluding in South America (São Paulo), Asia Pacific (Osaka-Local), and China regions. There are no extra prices applicable on this feature. To read further on VPC sharing, refer documentation.

Now AWS Glue Presents An VPC Interface Endpoint

AWS Glue is completely organized ETL (extract, transform, and load) service which is easy and cost-effective to group your data, sort it, lift it, and shift it accurately between various data stores. Amazon VPC is an AWS service which you can utilize to start AWS resources in a virtual network that you describe. You have charge on your network settings, like IP address range, subnets, route tables, and network gateways with a VPC. You can describe an interface VPC endpoint for AWS Glue to link your VPC to AWS Glue. Now, you can bridge straight to AWS Glue via an interface endpoint in your Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) rather than joining over the internet. Transmission between your VPC and AWS Glue is managed wholly and safely inside the AWS network when you utilize VPC interface endpoint. This new feature is accessible in every region where AWS Glue is accessible excluding AWS GovCloud (US-East) and AWS GovCloud (US). To know more about AWS Glue with VPC endpoints, refer documentation.