Author: Jeff Barr

Every request that you make to the Amazon S3 API must be signed to ensure that it is authentic. In the early days of AWS we used a signing model that is known as Signature Version 2, or SigV2 for short. Back in 2012, we announced SigV4, a more flexible signing method, and made it […]

Update November 9, 2022 – AWS IoT Things Graph has been transitioned to AWS IoT TwinMaker. To learn more, please visit the AWS IoT TwinMaker page here. In an effort to ensure a great experience, expired links in this post have also been updated or removed. We announced AWS IoT Things Graph last November and […]

Update (September 2019) – We made two important updates to this feature after this blog post was first published: You can now enable the Data API when you create a new Amazon Aurora Serverless cluster. Simply expand the Connectivity options and click Data API: You can now use the Data API with PostgreSQL-compatible Amazon Aurora […]

As you may have been able to tell from many of the announcements that we have made over the last four or five years, we are working to build a wide-ranging set of Internet of Things (IoT) services and capabilities. Here’s a quick recap: October 2015 – AWS IoT Core – A fundamental set of […]

My colleagues on the AWS team are always looking for ways to make it easier and simpler for you to protect your data from unauthorized access. This work is visible in many different ways, and includes the AWS Cloud Security page, the AWS Security Blog, a rich collection of AWS security white papers, an equally […]

Last fall I told you about AWS Ground Station and gave you a sneak preview of the steps that you would take to downlink data from a satellite. I am happy to report that the first two ground stations are now in operation, and that you can start using AWS Ground Station today. Using AWS […]

AWS Config rules give you the power to perform Dynamic Compliance Checking on your Cloud Resources. Building on the AWS Resource Configuration Tracking provided by AWS Config, you can use a combination of predefined and custom rules to continuously and dynamically check that all changes made to your AWS resources are compliant with the conditions […]

Update (September 23, 2020) – Over the last year, we’ve heard feedback from many customers who have asked us to extend the deprecation date. Based on this feedback we have decided to delay the deprecation of path-style URLs to ensure that customers have the time that they need to transition to virtual hosted-style URLs. We […]