AWS News Blog
Upcoming Event: AWS Tech Summit, London
I’m very pleased to invite you all to join the AWS team in London, for our first Tech Summit of 2011. We’ll take a quick, high level tour of the Amazon Web Services cloud platform before diving into the technical detail of how to build highly available, fault tolerant systems, host databases and deploy Java applications […]
Read MoreAttend 6-hour AWS Workshop at Cloud Connect
Attend the Amazon Web Services Workshop at Cloud Connect Knowing all the AWS services is one thing knowing when and where to use which one is a completely different issue. This workshop will not only help you understand different AWS Infrastructure services but also show you how to use them so that you can take […]
Read MoreNew AWS Console Features: Forced Detach, Termination Protection
We’ve added two new features to the AWS Management Console: forced detach of EBS volumes and termination protection. Forced DetachFrom time to time an Elastic Block Storage (EBS) volume will refuse to cleanly detach itself from an EC2 instance. This can occur for several reasons, including continued system or user activity on the volume. Under […]
Read MoreSpringboard (UK Tech Accelerator) Application Deadline Approaching
I love to meet with start-ups. There’s always energy, enthusiasm, creativity and a desire to change the world in some interesting way. Over the years I’ve also read and reviewed many of the applications for the AWS Start-Up Challenge. The AWS team has been working with a number of start-up incubators to make sure that […]
Read MoreHost Your Static Website on Amazon S3
We’ve added some new features to Amazon S3 to make it even better at hosting static websites. Customers have been hosting their images and video for their websites on Amazon S3 for a long time. However, it was not that easy to host your entire website on S3. Why? If a user enters a site […]
Read MoreAWS Identity and Access Management Users Can Now Log in to the AWS Management Console
The AWS Management Console now recognizes Users created via AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM). IAM users can now log in to the console and manage resources within an AWS account. IAM Users can be assigned individual Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) devices to provide additional security when they access the console. IAM can also be used […]
Read MoreGuest Post – Amazon SES Update & Webinar
For this post, I am turning the keyboard over to my colleague Chris Wheeler. He’s the Technical Program Manager for the Amazon Simple Email Service… A few weeks have passed and the dust has settled a bit. If you havent heard, Amazon Simple Email Service launched as a new highly scalable and cost-effective marketing and […]
Read MoreBitNami Cloud Hosting
I had a very pleasant phone call with Erica and Daniel of BitNami just yesterday. They gave me a complete briefing on their new BitNami Cloud Hosting product, which they just announced a few minutes ago. BitNami Cloud Hosting is designed to make life easier for solution providers. The goal is to provide solution providers […]
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