Author: Jeff Barr

You can now launch Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) MySQL Read Replicas inside of a Virtual Private Cloud (VPC). Amazon RDS removes the headaches of running a relational database reliably at scale, allowing Amazon RDS customers to focus on innovation for their customers. Read Replicas enables you to elastically scale out beyond the capacity constraints […]

Categorization is one of the more popular use cases for the Amazon Mechanical Turk. A categorization HIT (Human Intelligence Task) asks the Worker to select from a list of options. Our customers use HITs of this type to assign product categories, match URLs to business listings, and to discriminate between line art and photographs. Using […]

Today we are expanding the availability of AWS Elastic Beanstalk to the EU (Ireland) region. This comes hot on the heels of our recent announcement of .NET support and our launch in Japan, and gives you the ability to choose any one of three regions for deployment (see the AWS Global Infrastructure map for more […]

The Amazon Simple Email Service (SES) makes it easy and cost-effective for you to send bulk or transactional email messages. As I described in my introductory post (Introducing the Amazon Simple Email Service), you must verify the email address (or addresses) that you plan to use to send messages. The initial verification process must be […]

There are a lot of storage options available to AWS users — Amazon S3, Elastic Block Storage, and the AWS Storage Gateway, along with ancillary services such as Amazon CloudFront for content distribution, AWS Direct Connect for dedicated network connections, and Amazon Elastic MapReduce for large-scale data processing. Our customers are using these services to […]

Post updated on May 11, 2020. Introduction Amazon CloudFront‘s network of edge locations (currently 30, with more in the works) gives you the ability to distribute static and streaming content to your users at high speed with low latency. Today we are introducing a set of features that, taken together, allow you to use CloudFront […]

Let’s take a quick look at what happened in AWS-land last week: Monday,  May 7 We released the EC2 VM Import Connector for VMware vCenter version 1.2.0. Tuesday, May 8 The Relational Database Service now supports SQL Server. You can now run .NET applications on AWS Elastic Beanstalk. Wednesday, May 9 We introduced APIs and IAM support […]

AWS , AWS . . , AWS . : , , . , AWS 7 . EC2 : ———— AWS Portal – Adding Korean Content   We’ve added another entry to the language menu in the AWS Portal to make AWS accessible to an even wider audience: We are doing this to make sure that […]