AWS News Blog
Tradier – A Brokerage Cloud Running on AWS and NASDAQ FinQloud
Late last year I wrote about the new NASDAQ OMX FinQloud platform. FinQloud provides customers with cost-effective and efficient management, storage and processing of financial data. Today I’d like to tell you about an even higher-level platform that has been built on top of FinQloud and AWS. Tradier’s Brokerage in a Box Tradier has built […]
Read MoreLarger Payloads (256 KB) for Amazon SQS and SNS
Today we are raising the maximum payload size for the Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS) and the Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS) from 64 KB to 256 KB. We are also adding a new option to allow you to opt for delivery of SNS messages in raw format, in addition to the existing JSON format. […]
Read MoreIAM Policies for User-Specific S3 Buckets
AWS Identity and Access Management is very powerful and very flexible. My colleague Elliot Yamaguchi has written a blog post that shows you how to use IAM to create a policy which implements folder-level permissions within an Amazon S3 bucket. By using this policy, you can allow hundreds of users to safely share a single […]
Read MoreAWS Jobs – Professional Services, Software Development, and Support
I have a triple dose of videos for you today! The AWS team is growing at a rapid pace and we’re looking for great people to fill many different positions. In order to give you a better sense for the jobs and the kinds of people that you’d be working with, I spent some time […]
Read MoreAWS Week in Review – June 10, 2013
Let’s take a quick look at what happened in AWS-land last week: Monday, June 10 We announced an Amazon RDS Price Reduction for On-Demand and Reserved Instances. The AWS Security Blog published part two of a series on Securing Access to AWS Using MFA. Tuesday, June 11 We added Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) to […]
Read MoreAWS FedRAMP ATO: Difficult to Achieve, Easily Misunderstood, Valuable to All AWS Customers
Compliance with FedRAMP is a complex process with a high bar for a providers security practices. Because few providers have secured an Authority To Operate (ATO) under FedRAMP, and FedRAMP in general is very new, the topic often leaves many confused. So, we wanted to build upon our press release, security blog post, and AWS blog post […]
Read MoreEBS Snapshot Copy Performance Improvement
The EBS Snapshot Copy feature gives you the power to copy EBS snapshots across AWS Regions. Effective today, we have made the snapshot copy even faster than before with support for incremental copies between Regions. It is now practical to copy snapshots to other regions more frequently, making it easier for you to develop applications […]
Read MoreCustom SSL Domain Names and Root Domain Hosting for Amazon CloudFront
I am happy to announce that Amazon CloudFront now supports a pair of frequently requested features: support for custom SSL certificates and the ability to point the root of your website to a CloudFront distribution. With support for both of these features in place, it is now even easier for you to deliver your entire […]
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