AWS News Blog
New Features for Amazon SNS – Delivery Policies and Message Formatting
We have added two new features to Amazon SNS to give you additional control over the content and delivery of your messages. As a brief reminder, SNS allows you to create named Topics, subscribe to Topics (with delivery via email, HTTP / HTTPS, an SMS message, or to an SQS queue), and to publish messages […]
Amazon S3 – Object Expiration
Update (March 2020) – In the years that have passed since this post was published, the number of rules that you can define per bucket has been raised from 100 to 1000. Amazon S3 is a great way to store files for the short or for the long term. If you use S3 to store […]
New – Elastic Network Interfaces in the Virtual Private Cloud
If you look closely at the services and facilities provided by AWS, you’ll see that we’ve chosen to factor architectural components that were once considered elemental (e.g. a server) into multiple discrete parts that you can instantiate and control individually. For example, you can create an EC2 instance and then attach EBS volumes to it […]
New AWS Console Feature – Improved Access to CloudWatch Alarms
We’ve added some features to the AWS Management Console to make it easier for you to create, view, and manage your Amazon CloudWatch Alarms. Here’s a visual overview. Creating AlarmsYou can now create a new CloudWatch alarm from the Monitoring tab of the selected EC2 instance or EBS volume using the Create Alarm button: Let’s […]
Behind the Scenes of the AWS Jobs Page, or Scope Creep in Action
The AWS team is growing rapidly and we’re all doing our best to find, interview, and hire the best people for each job. In order to do my part to grow our team, I started to list the most interesting and relevant open jobs at the end of my blog posts. At first I searched […]
Amazon CloudFront – Support for 20 GB Objects
Update May 25, 2021 – CloudFront now supports 30 GB objects, see our documentation here for more information on quotas. Tonight we have a post written by a guest blogger! Alex Dunlap is a Senior Manager on the AWS Team, responsible for Product Management for Amazon CloudFront and Amazon Route 53. Take it away, Alex… […]
Now Open – South America (Sao Paulo) Region – EC2, S3, and Much More
With the paint barely dry on our US West (Oregon) Region, we are now ready to expand again. This time we are going South of the Equator, to Sao Paulo, Brazil. With the opening of this new Region, AWS customers in South and Central America can now enjoy fast, low-latency access to the suite of […]
New – SMTP Support for the Amazon Simple Email Service (SES)
We have added an SMTP interface to the Amazon Simple Email Service (SES) to make it even easier for you to send transactional or bulk email. We’ve had a lot of requests for this feature and I am confident that it will be really popular. There’s a new SMTP item in the SES tab of […]