AWS News Blog
City on a Cloud Challenge Winners – 2015
The Challenge Our City on a Cloud Innovation Challenge was designed to encourage local governments to use AWS to create innovative solutions to problems faced by local governments in the United States and other countries. Each year, we recognize winners in three categories: Best Practices, Dream Big, and Partners in Innovation. Over the years that […]
Read MoreAWS Webinars for November 2015 – Learn About New Services and Best Practices
As we did last month, we are running a series of webinars designed to bring you up to speed on the latest AWS services & features, and to make sure that you are aware of the best ways to put them to use. The webinars are free but “seating” is limited and you should definitely […]
Read MoreIn the Works – AWS Region in South Korea!
The region-based AWS model has proven to be a good match for the needs of our global customer base. We have always believed that you need to be able to exercise complete control over where your data is stored and where it is processed. Next Stop, Korea I am happy to announce that we will […]
Read MoreHeads-Up – Longer EC2 & EBS Resource IDs Coming in 2016
My colleague Angela Chapman wrote the guest post below to make you aware of longer instance, reservation, volume, and snapshot IDs that we will be rolling out in 2016. – Jeff; EC2 and EBS are planning to increase the length of some of their resource IDs over the coming year. In 2016, we will be […]
Read MoreNew Prep Class for the AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional Exam
Are you planning to take the AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional exam? If so, we have a new full-day workshop to help you prepare. The new AWS Certification Exam Readiness Workshop provides an overview of the concepts and knowledge areas covered on the Solutions Architect—Professional exam, and walks you through the exam structure and question […]
Read MoreAmazon RDS Update – Cross-Account Snapshot Sharing
Today I would like to tell you about a new cross-account snapshot sharing feature for Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS). You can share the snapshots with specific AWS accounts or you can make them public. Cross-Account Snapshot Sharing I often create snapshot backups as part of my RDS demos: The snapshots are easy to create […]
Read MoreEC2 VPC VPN Update – NAT Traversal, Additional Encryption Options, and More
You can use Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) to create a logically isolated section of the AWS Cloud. Within the VPC, you can define your desired IP address range, create subnets, configure route tables, and so forth. You can also use a network gateway to connect the VPC to your existing on-premises network using a […]
Read MoreNew AWS Public Data Set – Real-Time and Archived NEXRAD Weather Data
My colleague Ariel Gold wrote the guest post below to introduce the newest AWS Public Data Set. — Jeff; You can now access real-time and archival NEXRAD weather radar data as an AWS Public Data Set. The Next Generation Weather Radar (NEXRAD) is a network of 160 high-resolution Doppler radar sites that detects precipitation […]
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