AWS CF Ready

 

Amazon CloudFront (CF) Ready partners provide solutions-focused offerings to AWS customers in the end-to-end media management, security, monitoring and analytics, and content acceleration space.

These solutions help complement and augment existing AWS services to help customers optimize their use of Amazon CloudFront. Amazon CloudFront Ready software products are vetted by AWS Partner Solutions Architects for their sound architecture, adherence to AWS best practices, and demonstrated customer success.

With the new Amazon CloudFront Ready designation, customers can quickly and confidently identify validated AWS Partner software products that support Amazon CloudFront.

Ref: https://aws.amazon.com/cloudfront/partners/?partner-solutions-cards.sort-by=item.additionalFields.partnerNameLower&partner-solutions-cards.sort-order=asc&awsf.partner-solutions-filter-partner-type=partner-type%23technology

CloudWatch Metrics Insight

 

Metrics Insights is a new feature from Amazon CloudWatch that is now generally available. 

As a fast, flexible, SQL based query engine, Metrics Insights enables developers, operators, systems engineers, and cloud solutions architects to identify trends and patterns across millions of operational metrics in real time and helps you use these insights to reduce time to resolution. 

With Metrics Insights, you can gain better visibility on your infrastructure and large scale application performance with flexible querying and on-the-fly metric aggregations. Use Metrics Insights and other CloudWatch features to monitor your AWS and hybrid environments, and to respond to operational problems promptly.

While Metrics Insights comes with standard SQL language, you can also get started with Metrics Insights by using the visual query builder. To use the query builder, first, you select your metrics of interest, namespaces and dimensions visually, and the console automatically constructs your SQL queries for you, based on your selections. Metrics Insights is now available in all commercial AWS Regions and you can start using it immediately. 

It is easy to get started with Metrics Insights.  To learn more about Metrics Insights please refer to AWS documentation at https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudWatch/latest/monitoring/query_with_cloudwatch-metrics-insights.html

Amazon GameSparks

Amazon GameSparks is a managed AWS service to provide game developers with features for building, running, and scaling the backend for their games without having to manage servers or low-level cloud primitives.

It comes with out-of-the-box backend features that require minimal setup and is pre-integrated with the Unity game engine.

Amazon GameSparks manages the backend services, infrastructure scaling, and on-going game maintenance for customers, thereby reducing their cost and time to launch a game. This allows developers to focus on creating the best gaming experience, not spending unnecessary time on the backend.

AWS will not charge for the use of Amazon GameSparks during the preview period. Amazon GameSparks is available in the US East (N. Virginia) Region and is pre-integrated with the Unity game engine. 

Amazon GameSparks provides a downloadable AWS Mobile SDK for Unity and other resources that includes a sample game, Cloud Code API Reference material, and a developer guide. Ref: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/gamesparks/