AWS News Blog
AWS Week in Review – November 5, 2012
Let’s take a quick look at what happened in AWS-land last week: Monday, November 5 We released consistent BatchGet and other new features for DynamoDB. We updated Amazon CloudSearch with new features, lower prices, and a free trial. We launched a SharePoint reference implementation on AWS complete with all necessary scripts, documentation, and CloudFormation templates. […]
Read MoreNew Asia Pacific (Sydney) Region in Australia – EC2, DynamoDB, S3, and Much More
It is time to expand the AWS footprint once again, with a new Region in Sydney, Australia. AWS customers in Australia can now enjoy fast, low-latency access to the suite of AWS infrastructure services. New Region The new Sydney Region supports the following AWS services: A Tranquil Beach – Shoal Bay, Australia Amazon Elastic Compute […]
Read MoreThe AWS Report – Ramesh Panuganty of Cognizant
In this episode of The AWS Report, I interviewed Ramesh Panuganty of Cognizant to learn more about their Cloud360 product: Cloud360 helps technology and business managers to deploy and manage cloud-based architectures in a flexible and scalable fashion. Learn more about Cloud360… — Jeff; Modified 3/12/2021 – In an effort to ensure a great experience, […]
Read MoreAmazon SQS – Long Polling and Request Batching / Client-Side Buffering
We announced the Simple Queue Service (SQS) eight years ago, give or take a day. Although this was our first infrastructure web service, we launched it with little fanfare and gave no hint that this was just the first of many such services on the drawing board. I’m sure that some people looked at it […]
Read MoreThe Amazon EC2 Spotathon
Stephen Elliott Talks About EC2 Spot Instances If you have used EC2 Spot Instances in a unique way, you need to enter the Amazon EC2 Spotathon. This is an open-ended coding challenge designed to allow you to show off what you have done (and are doing) with Spot Instances. We’re looking for entrants from a […]
Read MoreAWS re:Invent Sold Out – Register for the Live Stream!
I’m happy to be able to report that we have sold all of the available seats at AWS re:Invent! The halls here are ablaze with excitement and we’re all working 18 hours per day to bring you a conference that will be fun, informative, and memorable. We’ve lined up an amazing array of speakers and […]
Read MoreRDS & ElastiCache Updates – New Instance Types and Price Reductions
I’ve got good news for users of the Amazon Relational Database Service and ElastiCache. We’re reducing prices and adding more instance types. RDS Price ReductionWe’ve reduced prices on RDS Database Instances by 8% to 14% in the US East (Northern Virginia) and US West (Oregon) Regions. Here are sample prices for standard deployment (single Availability […]
Read MoreThe AWS Report – Scott Montgomery of Trend Micro
In this episode of The AWS Report, I spoke with Scott Montgomery, Global Director of Strategy for Trend Micro to learn more about their cloud offerings and strategy. We talked about the transition from security for desktops and servers to security in virtualized environments, and from there up to the cloud. As malware continued to […]
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