AWS News Blog
AWS Lambda – In Full Production with New Features for Mobile Devs
We launched AWS Lambda in preview form at last year’s AWS re:Invent conference (see my post, AWS Lambda – Run Code in the Cloud for more information). As I said at the time, Lambda is a zero-admin compute platform; you don’t have to configure, launch, or, monitor Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances, think […]
EC2 Container Service – Long-Running Applications, Load Balancing, and More
Amazon EC2 Container Service is a highly scalable container management service that supports Docker containers and allows you to easily run applications on a managed cluster of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances. We launched the preview at AWS re:Invent and have been receiving a lot of great feedback ever since. We built Amazon […]
New Amazon WorkSpaces Application Manager (WAM)
Update September 8, 2022 – Amazon WorkSpaces Application Manager (Amazon WAM) is reaching end of life and will no longer be available starting on September 1, 2023. Visit the WAM End of Life FAQs for more information. Over the last month or two I have become a devoted user of Amazon WorkSpaces. I am able […]
Amazon Machine Learning – Make Data-Driven Decisions at Scale
Today, it is relatively straightforward and inexpensive to observe and collect vast amounts of operational data about a system, product, or process. Not surprisingly, there can be tremendous amounts of information buried within gigabytes of customer purchase data, web site navigation trails, or responses to email campaigns. The good news is that all of this […]
Amazon Elastic File System – Shared File Storage for Amazon EC2
I’d like to give you a preview of a new AWS service that will make its debut later this year. Let’s take a quick look at the AWS storage portfolio. We currently offer: Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) for object storage, presented as buckets of objects and accessible over the Internet using URLs or […]
New AWS Training Courses for Business Decision Makers and DevOps Engineers
We have recently broadened the AWS Training portfolio in order to do an even better job of meeting your needs. Here are the newest offerings: AWS Business Essentials is a new workshop for IT business decision makers. It’s designed to help you understand the benefits of cloud computing and how a cloud strategy can help […]
AWS Config Update – More Regions, Friendly Notifications, Partner Support
AWS Config lets you track changes to your AWS resources over time (read my AWS re:Invent post, Track AWS Resource Configurations With AWS Config for more information, and my AWS Config Update for a walk-through). Today we are making AWS Config available in five additional AWS regions. We are also making Config’s email notification messages […]
New APN Competencies – Healthcare and Digital Media
When I speak with enterprises and mid-sized companies about their plans to move to the Cloud, they often ask me to recommend solution providers that are skilled in the application of AWS and that also have expertise in a particular business domain. We are continuing to add value to the AWS Partner Network (APN) by […]