AWS News Blog
Now Available – AWS SDK For Python (Boto3)
My colleague Peter Moon sent the guest post below to introduce the newest version of the AWS SDK for Python also known as Boto. — Jeff; Originally started as a Python client for Amazon S3 by Mitch Garnaat in 2006, Boto has been the primary tool for working with Amazon Web Services for many […]
Read MoreAWS Week in Review – June 15, 2015
Let’s take a quick look at what happened in AWS-land last week: Monday, June 15 We announced that AWS Lambda can now Run Java Code in Response to Events. We announced Simplified Reserved Instance Options for Amazon RDS. We announced that you can now Send Push Notifications to Mac OS Desktops and VoIP apps on […]
Read MoreNew Preferred Payment Currency for AWS – Canadian Dollars (CAD)
Earlier this year we gave you the option to set the preferred payment currency for your AWS account, with a choice of twelve currencies when you use an eligible Visa or Mastercard to pay your bill. Today I am pleased to announce that we are giving you the option to specify Canadian Dollars (CAD) as […]
Read MoreCloudFront Update – Configurable Max and Default TTL
Amazon CloudFront makes it easy for you to distribute content to end users with low latency, high data transfer speeds, and no minimum usage commitments. In order to make content available with low latency, CloudFront caches objects at each of its 53 (as of this writing) edge locations. Today we are making an update to […]
Read MoreNew APN Competency – Marketing and Commerce
The AWS Partner Network (APN) allows partners to differentiate themselves and to share their expertise in particular market segments and topical areas by qualifying for one or more APN Competencies. To date we have recognized partners that have relevant experience and special expertise in the following areas: Big Data Storage Life Sciences Healthcare Digital Media […]
Read MoreNew T2.Large Instances
We launched the T2 instances last summer (see my post, New Low Cost EC2 Instances with Burstable Performance for more information). These instances give you a generous amount of baseline capacity and the ability to automatically and transparently scale up to full-core processing power on an as-needed basis. The bursting model is based on “CPU […]
Read MoreNow Available – SQL Server Enterprise Edition AMI for EC2
You can now launch SQL Server Enterprise Edition on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) using a new, pre-configured AMI (Amazon Machine Image). This edition of SQL Server offers some new and unique features including: High Availability – You can configure a primary database and up to four active, readable secondary databases into an Always-On […]
Read MoreNew – Apache Spark on Amazon EMR
My colleague Jon Fritz wrote the guest post below to introduce a powerful new feature for Amazon EMR. We updated it on May 16, 2017 in order to describe some new console features and to account for the availability of Spark 2.0. — Jeff; I’m happy to announce that Amazon EMR now supports Apache Spark. […]
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