AWS News Blog
Jobs at AWS – The Complete List
The AWS team is growing by leaps and bounds. Existing teams are expanding, new teams are being formed, and we’re pushing into new territories. There are so many jobs that our official job site can be a bit difficult to navigate. To make it easier to find the job that is right for you, I […]
New S3 Features for The AWS Management Console
We have added three new features to the Amazon S3 tab of the AWS Management Console: Easier Access – You no longer need to install Adobe Flash or provide outbound access to port 843 on your network in order to use the S3 tab. Folder Upload – You can now upload the contents of an […]
Update for the Seattle AWS User Group for Q3 of 2011
Last night I delivered the following presentation to the Seattle AWS User Group to review and summarize some of the additions we’ve made to AWS over the last couple of quarters: AWS Q3 2011 Update – Seattle AWS User Group View more presentations from Amazon Web Services The presentation went over quite well so I […]
AWS Summer Startups: TellApart
Over the summer months, we’d like to share a few stories from startups around the world: what are they working on and how they are using the cloud to get things done. Today, we’re profiling one of last year’s finalists from the AWS Start-up Challenge – TellApart, from Burlingame, California! TellAparts application stood out to […]
Elastic Load Balancer SSL Support Options
We’ve added some additional flexibility to Amazon EC2’s Elastic Load Balancing feature: You can now terminate SSL sessions at the load balancer and then re-encrypt them before they are sent to the back-end EC2 instances. You can now configure the set of ciphers and SSL protocols accepted by the load balancer. You can now configure […]
AWS Summer Startups: Appscend
Over the summer months, we’d like to share a few stories from startups around the world: what are they working on and how they are using the cloud to get things done. Today, we’re profiling Appscend, from Bucharest, Romania! Appscend is a sign that catching the “startup bug” and being able to run a […]
Happy 5th Birthday to Amazon EC2
I woke up today and realized that today is the 5th anniversary of launch of Amazon EC2. I published the initial announcement in the summer of 2006 while on vacation with my family. We (the AWS Marketing Team) have put together an interactive infographic to highlight some of the more significant changes and improvements that […]
Additional VM Import Functionality – Windows 2003, XenServer, Hyper-V
We’ve extended EC2’s VM Import feature to handle additional image formats and operating systems. The first release of VM Import handled Windows 2008 images in the VMware ESX VMDK format. You can now import Windows 2003 and Windows 2008 images in any of the following formats: VMware ESX VMDK Citrix XenServer VHD Microsoft Hyper-V VHD […]