In June 2021, Jeff Barr announced the upcoming AWS Israel (Tel Aviv) Region. Today we’re announcing the general availability of the AWS Israel (Tel Aviv) Region, with three Availability Zones and the il-central-1 API name. The new Tel Aviv Region gives customers an additional option for running their applications and serving users from data centers […]

This July, AWS communities in ASEAN wrote a new history. First, the AWS User Group Malaysia recently held the first AWS Community Day in Malaysia. Another significant milestone has been achieved by the AWS User Group Philippines. They just celebrated their tenth anniversary by running 2 days of AWS Community Day Philippines. Here are a […]

We already covered how mainframe modernization isn’t just for the financial industry, so why not address the elephant in the room? The world’s biggest modernization challenges are concentrated in the banking industry.           Before the internet and cloud computing, and before smartphones and mobile apps, banks were shuttling payments through massive electronic settlement gateways and operating […]

We are introducing a new charge for public IPv4 addresses. Effective February 1, 2024 there will be a charge of $0.005 per IP per hour for all public IPv4 addresses, whether attached to a service or not (there is already a charge for public IPv4 addresses you allocate in your account but don’t attach to […]

Every month, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) adds over 2,000 new security vulnerabilities to the National Vulnerability Database. Security teams don’t need to track all of these vulnerabilities, but they do need a way to identify and resolve the ones that pose a potential threat to their systems. That’s what the vulnerability […]

As an independent software vendor (ISV), we at Primeur embed the Open Liberty Java runtime in our flagship data integration platform, DATA ONE. It is essential that the embedded Java runtime is both invisible to our customers yet observable to our engineers who support them. Open Liberty, IBM’s open-source Java runtime on which IBM WebSphere […]

In industrial metal-to-metal welding operations, companies are struggling to automate inspections to efficiently detect weld defects. To prevent costly product recalls, excessive scrap, re-work and other costs associated with poor quality, companies look to automate inspections and identify weld defects early and consistently. The unsung heroes Welding is the fusion of two compounds with heat. […]

If you want to stay competitive in today’s fast-paced world, implementing cloud computing becomes a necessity. Download Future Processing’s ebook on different sides of successful cloud computing adoption and gain a full insight into the digital transformation with the cloud. According to a recent survey by Gartner, by 2025 95% of new digital workloads will […]

We launched Amazon EC2 C7g instances in May 2022 and M7g and R7g instances in February 2023. Powered by the latest AWS Graviton3 processors, the new instances deliver up to 25 percent higher performance, up to two times higher floating-point performance, and up to 2 times faster cryptographic workload performance compared to AWS Graviton2 processors. […]

I am happy to announce that a new AWS Local Zone in Phoenix, Arizona is now open and ready for you to use, with more instance types, storage classes, and services than ever before. We launched the first AWS Local Zone in 2019 (AWS Now Available from a Local Zone in Los Angeles) with the […]