AWS News Blog
AWS Week in Review – March 7, 2016
Let’s take a quick look at what happened in AWS-land last week: Monday March 7 We launched Notifications for AWS CodeCommit. We announced that New AWS Accounts Now Default to Long EC2 Resource IDs. The showed you How to Automate Restricting Access to a VPC by Using AWS IAM and AWS CloudFormation. Botmetric talked about […]
Read MoreDeveloper Preview of AWS SDK for C++ is Now Available
My colleague Jonathan Henson has great news for C++ developers who would like to use AWS. I am happy to announce that the AWS SDK for C++ is now available as a developer preview. Last fall, we released the SDK in an experimental state to gather feedback and improve the APIs. Since then, we have […]
Read MoreTen Years in the AWS Cloud – How Time Flies!
Ten years ago today I announced the launch of Amazon S3 with a simple blog post! It is hard to believe that a decade has passed since then, or that I have written well over 2000 posts during that time. Future Shock When I was in high school, I read and reported on a relatively […]
Read MoreHot Startups on AWS – March 2016
We love startups! When energy, enthusiasm, creativity, and passion for changing the world come together to build new and exciting businesses and applications, everyone benefits. Today I am kicking off a new series of posts. Every month I am going to feature a handful of hot, AWS-powered startups and tell you a little bit about […]
Read MoreUsing Enhanced RDS Monitoring with Datadog
Today’s guest post comes from K Young, Director of Strategic Initiatives at Datadog! AWS recently announced enhanced monitoring for Amazon RDS instances running MySQL, MariaDB, and Aurora. Enhanced monitoring includes over 50 new CPU, memory, file system, and disk I/O metrics which can be collected on a per-instance basis as frequently as once per second. […]
Read MoreFlatiron Health – Using AWS to Help Improve Cancer Treatment
Flatiron Health is a hot startup with a great idea – providing cancer patients, physicians, researchers, and drug firms with a solution that organizes global oncology information. Currently more than 230 cancer clinics and about 2,200 clinicians across the United States use their products and services, which support the treatment of approximately one in five […]
Read MoreNew – Notifications for AWS CodeCommit
is a fully-managed source control service that makes it easy for you to host a secure and highly scalable private Git repository.Today we are making CodeCommit even more useful by adding support for repository triggers. You can use these triggers to integrate your existing unit tests and deployment tools into your source code management workflow. […]
Read MoreAWS Week in Review – February 29, 2016
Let’s take a quick look at what happened in AWS-land last week: Monday February 29 We announced that AWS Import/Export Snowball Now Supports Export. We announced that Amazon CloudWatch Events are Now Available in the EU (Frankfurt) Region. We announced VPC ClassicLink and ClassicLink Support in the South America (Sao Paulo) Region. We announced that […]
Read MoreAWS Import/Export Snowball Update – Export Now Available
We launched last year at (see my blog post, AWS Import/Export Snowball – Transfer 1 Petabyte Per Week Using Amazon-Owned Storage Appliances, to learn more). At launch time, you had the ability to use this appliance-based model to move large amounts of data (generally 10 terabytes or more) to AWS. This aspect of Snowball is […]
Read MoreAWS Week in Review – February 22, 2016
Let’s take a quick look at what happened in AWS-land last week: Monday February 22 We announced an Amazon RDS Update, with Support for MySQL 5.7. We announced that the AWS Mobile SDK for Android Now Supports AWS IoT. We announced the AWS Pop-Up Loft in Tel Aviv. CloudCheckr listed 5 Common AWS Cost Issues: […]
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