AWS News Blog
Celebrate 15 Years of Amazon S3 with ‘Pi Week’ Livestream Events
I wrote the blog post that announced Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) fifteen years ago today. In that post, I made it clear that the service was accessed via APIs and that it was targeted at developers, outlined a few key features, and shared pricing information. Developers found that post, started to write code […]
AWS Asia Pacific (Osaka) Region Now Open to All, with Three AZs and More Services
AWS has had a presence in Japan for a long time! We opened the Asia Pacific (Tokyo) Region in March 2011, added a third Availability Zone (AZ) in 2012, and a fourth in 2018. Since that launch, customers in Japan and around the world have used the region to host an incredibly wide variety of […]
Amazon Location – Add Maps and Location Awareness to Your Applications
Update June 1, 2021 – Amazon Location Service is now generally available and includes routing and raster (satellite) maps. You can easily and securely add maps, geocoding, routing, tracking, and geofencing to your applications. Read more about the new features in our new blog post here or try it now in the console. We want […]
Join the Preview – Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus (AMP)
Observability is an essential aspect of running cloud infrastructure at scale. You need to know that your resources are healthy and performing as expected, and that your system is delivering the desired level of performance to your customers. A lot of challenges arise when monitoring container-based applications. First, because container resources are transient and there […]
AWS CloudShell – Command-Line Access to AWS Resources
No matter how much automation you have built, no matter how great you are at practicing Infrastructure as Code (IAC), and no matter how successfully you have transitioned from pets to cattle, you sometimes need to interact with your AWS resources at the command line. You might need to check or adjust a configuration file, […]
PennyLane on Braket + Progress Toward Fault-Tolerant Quantum Computing + Tensor Network Simulator
I first wrote about Amazon Braket last year and invited you to Get Started with Quantum Computing! Since that launch we have continued to push forward, and have added several important & powerful new features to Amazon Braket: August 2020 – General Availability of Amazon Braket with access to quantum computing hardware from D-Wave, IonQ, […]
In the Works – AWS Region in Melbourne, Australia
We launched new AWS Regions in Italy and South Africa in 2020, and are working on regions in Indonesia, Japan, Spain, India, and Switzerland. Melbourne, Australia in 2020 Today I am happy to announce that the Asia Pacific (Melbourne) region is in the works, and will open in the second half of 2022 with three […]
Amazon S3 Update – Strong Read-After-Write Consistency
When we launched S3 back in 2006, I discussed its virtually unlimited capacity (“…easily store any number of blocks…”), the fact that it was designed to provide 99.99% availability, and that it offered durable storage, with data transparently stored in multiple locations. Since that launch, our customers have used S3 in an amazing diverse set […]