AWS News Blog
AWS Direct Connect
The new AWS Direct Connect service allows enterprises to create a connection to an AWS Region via a dedicated network circuit. In addition to enhancing privacy, dedicated circuits will generally result in more predictable data transfer performance and will also increase bandwidth between your data center and AWS. Additionally, users of dedicated circuits will frequently […]
AWS Identity and Access Management – Now With Identity Federation
In the past 6 months we have launched several AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) features that have made it easier for our customers to control access to their AWS account. For example, weve launched support for IAM in the AWS Management Console, we’ve enabled users to log in to the AWS Management Console, and […]
Amazon VPC – Far More Than Everywhere
Today we are marking the Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) as Generally Available, and we are also releasing a big bundle of new features (see my recent post, A New Approach to Amazon EC2 Networking for more information on the last batch of features including subnets, Internet access, and Network ACLs). You can now build highly […]
AWS Events for August 2011
Here’s what’s happening in AWS-land for August of 2011: Webinars: August 3 – Game Development in the Cloud: Live Q&A With Featured Customer – 11:00 AM PST August 17 – Leveraging Your Active Directory to Access AWS Services – 9:00 AM PST August 18 – Introduction to Amazon Web Services – 9:00 AM PST August […]
The 2011 AWS Start-Up Challenge is Now On!
I am pleased to announce that the 2011 AWS Start-Up Challenge is now On! If you are part of promising young start-up and you use (or plan to use) one or more of the Amazon Web Services, please read the Official Rules and consider submitting an entry. Expanded World Footprint Based on the feedback that […]
AWS Summer Startups: Yottaa
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 Yottaa from Cambridge, MA! I first met Coach Wei, CEO and founder of Yottaa, last year, as a finalist […]
Auto Scaling – Notifications, Recurrence, and More Control
We’ve made some important updates to EC2’s Auto Scaling feature. You now have additional control of the auto scaling process, and you can receive additional information about scaling operations. Here’s a summary: You can now elect to receive notification from Amazon SNS when Auto Scaling launches or terminates EC2 instances. You can now set up […]
AWS Summer Startups: Mediology
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 Mediology Software from India! The Story2010 was the first year when we allowed countries from Asia Pacific to enter the […]