Tag: SysAdmin

AWS Deadline Cloud now lets you submit rendering jobs directly from the Deadline Cloud Monitor desktop application. This new feature makes it easier to submit renders for applications that don’t have built-in Deadline Cloud plugins or submission scripts, expanding compatibility with content creation tools and streamlining your rendering workflows. Previously, you needed the command line interface (CLI) to submit job bundles. With this update, you can submit job bundles directly from Deadline Cloud Monitor desktop interface, managing jobs from start to finish in one place. It is particularly useful for legacy applications, specialized rendering tools, or custom workflows that lack built-in Deadline Cloud integration. To access direct job submission, download the latest Deadline Cloud Monitor desktop application (version 1.1.7) in the AWS Console. To learn more a

Today, Oracle Database@AWS announced ability to share AWS Marketplace entitlements across accounts within an AWS Organization. With this feature, customers can now accept an Oracle Database@AWS AWS Marketplace offer in one AWS account, and share that entitlement with additional accounts in their AWS Organization. This allows customers to consume Oracle Database@AWS services from multiple AWS accounts using a single AWS Marketplace entitlement purchased for their organization. Many Oracle Database@AWS customers use separate AWS accounts for their development and production environments, and for different business units within their organization. Customers want a single buyer agreement to use Oracle Database@AWS within their organization, and use the purchased AWS Marketplace entitlement across multiple business units, and across their development and production environments. With

Amazon Kinesis Video Streams (Amazon KVS) now supports Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) addressing for WebRTC. This release introduces dual-stack endpoint support, enabling developers to use both IPv4 and IPv6 addresses to stream video from millions of devices. The dual-stack support is designed to ensure that existing IPv4 implementations continue to work reliably while gaining IPv6 connectivity benefits. Moreover, the update simplifies transition to IPv6 addresses while eliminating the need for address translation equipment. This feature is available in all commercial AWS Regions where Amazon KVS is offered, except Asia Pacific (Singapore) and China (Beijing, operated by Sinnet). For implementation details, refer to the Amazon KVS Develo

Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) Service Connect now supports Envoy access logs, providing deeper observability into request-level traffic patterns and service interactions. This new capability captures detailed per-request telemetry for end-to-end tracing, debugging, and compliance monitoring. Amazon ECS Service Connect makes it simple to build secure, resilient service-to-service communication across clusters, VPCs, and AWS accounts. It integrates service discovery and service mesh capabilities by automatically injecting AWS-managed Envoy proxies as sidecars that handle traffic routing, load balancing, and inter-service connectivity. Envoy Access logs capture detailed traffic metadata enabling request-level visibility into service communication patterns. This enables you to perform network diagnostics, troubleshoot issues efficiently, and maintain audit trails for compliance requirements. You

Today, Amazon GameLift Streams launched two new capabilities to optimize performance and cost: Gen6 stream classes and enhanced autoscaling with warm buffer. The new Gen6 stream classes provide a wider range of price performance options, while autoscaling enables customers to dynamically manage capacity scaling.  The seven new Gen6 stream classes available today are based on EC2 G6 instances powered by NVIDIA L4 Tensor Core GPUs, which provide up to 2x higher performance over Gen4 stream classes. The pro and ultra stream class deliver improved performance for graphics-intensive AAA games, while the medium and small stream class offer cost-efficient options for casual games. The gen6n_small stream class is available at $0.16/hour in us-east-2.  The enhanced autoscaling capabilities provide automatic capacity management that scales provisioned capacity dynamical

Today, Amazon GameLift Streams launched new powerful observability capabilities with session performance stats that provide real-time data for individual stream sessions, offering insights into application performance issues. Game developers requested deeper visibility into session performance and resource utilization. The new stats we're delivering today help developers understand how their applications perform on specific stream classes and GPUs, giving them the data to make optimal GPU selections, optimize performance, and troubleshoot individual user experiences. Developers can now access detailed data on CPU, memory, GPU, and VRAM usage for active sessions through the GameLift Streams Web SDK, or view them in the AWS console's built-in overlay on the "Test stream" page. These performance stats can also be exported to a file for post-session analysis. GameLift Streams also launched improved session status reasons and error messaging. Game developers now have deep

The AWS Storage Gateway service now supports the Nutanix AHV hypervisor as a deployment option for S3 File, Tape and Volume gateways. If you use Nutanix AHV hypervisor-based on-premises infrastructure, you can now deploy Storage Gateway in your environment to access virtually unlimited cloud storage.
 Nutanix AHV (Acropolis Hypervisor) is a KVM-based virtualization platform that is integrated into the Nutanix hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI) solution. With this launch, you have the option to deploy Storage Gateway on a Nutanix AHV hypervisor.
 Storage Gateway is a hybrid cloud storage service that provides on-premises applications access to virtually unlimited cloud storage using NFS, SMB, iSCSI, and iSCSI-VTL interfaces. You can use the service to backup and archive data to AWS, shift on-premises storage to cloud-backed file shares, and provide on-premises applications low-latency access to

Today we announce Research and Engineering Studio (RES) on AWS version 2025.12, which introduces tag propagation for CloudFormation resources, enhanced Windows domain configuration options, default session scheduling, and security improvements. Research and Engineering Studio on AWS is an open source solution that provides a web-based portal for administrators to create and manage secure cloud-based research and engineering environments. RES enables scientists and engineers to access powerful Windows and Linux virtual desktops with pre-installed applications and shared resources, without requiring cloud expertise. Tags applied to the CloudFormation stack now propagate to all resources created during RES deployment, making it easier to track costs and manage resources across your organization. Administrators can disable automatic Windows domain joining for hosts, providing flexibility to implement custom domain-join logic when needed. You can now set a default sched

AWS Wickr now provides a suite of admin APIs that empower administrators to programmatically manage secure communication networks at scale. These APIs enable you to automate critical administrative workflows including user lifecycle management, network configuration, and security group administration. With user lifecycle management APIs, you can automatically create users and assign security groups when employees join, or deactivate accounts when they leave. Network configuration APIs allow you to quickly create or delete networks on demand as your organization scales or restructures, and push standardized retention and federation policies across departments. Security group administration APIs enable automatic user placement based on directory attributes such as job function or clearance level. By connecting Wickr administration directly into your identity management systems, policy management frameworks, and automation pipelines, you can now manage secure communications infrastruct

Today, AWS announces Neuron SDK 2.27.0, introducing support for Trainium3 UltraServer with expanded open source components. Neuron also introduces the Neuron Explorer tools suite, Enhanced NKI with open source NKI Compiler built on MLIR (private beta), the NKI Library of optimized kernels, native PyTorch support through TorchNeuron (private beta), and Neuron DRA for Kubernetes-native resource management (private beta). These updates enable standard frameworks to run unchanged on Trainium, removing barriers for researchers to experiment and innovate. For developers requiring deeper control, the enhanced Neuron Kernel Interface (NKI) Beta 2 provides direct access to hardware-level optimizations, enabling customers to scale AI workloads with improved performance. If you're interested in early access to new NKI features and improvements, you can join the Neuron pri