Top 10 performance tuning techniques for Amazon Redshift

By Dustin Ward

Amazon Web Services FeedTop 10 performance tuning techniques for Amazon Redshift Customers use Amazon Redshift for everything from accelerating existing database environments, to ingesting weblogs for big data analytics. Amazon Redshift is a fully managed, petabyte-scale, massively parallel data warehouse that offers simple operations and high performance. Amazon Redshift provides an open standard JDBC/ODBC driver…

Announcing a second Local Zone in Los Angeles

By Dustin Ward

Amazon Web Services FeedAnnouncing a second Local Zone in Los Angeles In December 2019, Jeff Barr published this post announcing the launch of a new Local Zone in Los Angeles, California. A Local Zone extends existing AWS regions closer to end-users, providing single-digit millisecond latency to a subset of AWS services in the zone. Local…

AWS Site-to-Site VPN now supports Internet Key Exchange (IKE) initiation

By Dustin Ward

Amazon Web Services FeedAWS Site-to-Site VPN now supports Internet Key Exchange (IKE) initiation You can now initiate Internet Key Exchange (IKE) negotiations for your VPN connections from AWS. This feature is available for new and existing Site-to-Site VPN connections and can be accessed through the AWS Management console, AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK), or the…