AWS News Blog
Amazon Elastic Transcoder Update – New Formats & Conversion Controls
Amazon Elastic Transcoder converts (transcodes) media (video and audio) files into renditions optimized for playback on desktops, mobile devices, tablets, and televisions. Today, we are making Elastic Transcoder even more useful! We’ve added support for generating NTSC outputs (the television standard used in the United States and Canada), and PAL outputs (the standard used in […]
Read MoreNew – Amazon CloudFront Signed Cookies for Private Content
My colleague Omid Behzadian sent a guest post with information about a useful new feature for CloudFront. — Jeff; Amazon CloudFront now gives you a new way to secure your private content: CloudFront signed HTTP cookies. In the past, you could control who is able to access your CloudFront content by adding a custom signature […]
Read MoreNew – AWS API Activity Lookup in CloudTrail
My colleague Sivakanth Mundru sent another guest post my way! This one shows you how to look up AWS API activity using CloudTrail. — Jeff; “The ability to look up API activity in AWS CloudTrail helps us easily troubleshoot security incidents and operational issues. We can now take immediate actions such as following up with […]
Read MoreAWS at Trading Technologies
Imagine having the opportunity to rebuild a complex, legacy-filled platform from the ground up, moving it from the desktop to the cloud in the process. Imagine being able to replace a complex upgrade model that mandated the use of separate source code branches for each customer with a single, cloud-based application. Sound like a challenge? […]
Read MoreAmazon ElastiCache Update – Redis 2.8.19 Now Available
You can use Amazon ElastiCache to easily create, scale, and maintain cloud-based in-memory key-value stores that use the Memcached or Redis engines. Today we are making ElastiCache even more useful by adding support for version 2.8.19 of the Redis engine. Compared to version 2.8.6 (until now the latest version supported by ElastiCache Redis), this version […]
Read MoreNew AWS Webinar Series – Introductions, Best Practices, and More
We have set up a new AWS Webinar Series. In March you can attend a webinar and Get started with AWS or a specific AWS Service (OpsWorks or WorkSpaces), master an AWS service (EC2), learn AWS best practices (content delivery, availability, or security), deploy enterprise workloads (SAP), or optimize for cost and performance (RDS). The […]
Read MoreAWS Week in Review – March 2, 2015
Let’s take a quick look at what happened in AWS-land last week: Monday, March 2 We announced Amazon EMR Support for New Instance Families and a Price Reduction in the AWS GovCloud (US) region. The N2W Blog showed you How-to Backup Your AWS Cloud Based PostgreSQL Database. The Cloud Academy Blog talked about Windows Server […]
Read MoreAWS Management Portal for vCenter Update – Auto Upgrades, Log Upload, Queued Imports
We have updated AWS Management Portal for vCenter. This plug-in runs within your existing vCenter environment and gives you the power to migrate VMware VMs to Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) and to manage AWS resources from within vCenter. Today’s update includes automatic upgrades, log uploading, and queued import tasks. Automatic Upgrades The management […]
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