AWS News Blog
Attention Developers – Public Preview of Amazon WorkDocs SDK Now Available
I am a heavy-duty user and a big fan of Amazon WorkDocs. With AWS re:Invent just days away, I have nearly two dozen draft blog posts underway. I use WorkDocs to make sure that all of the interested parties are reviewing and commenting on the most recent version of each draft. Today I am happy […]
Amazon CloudWatch Update – Percentile Statistics and New Dashboard Widgets
There sure is a lot going on with Amazon CloudWatch these days! Earlier this month I showed you how to Jump From Metrics to Associated Logs and told you about Extended Metrics Retention and the User Interface Update. Today we are improving CloudWatch yet again, adding percentile statistics and two new dashboard widgets. Time is […]
New for Amazon Simple Queue Service – FIFO Queues with Exactly-Once Processing & Deduplication
As the very first member of the AWS family of services, SQS has certainly withstood the test of time! Back in 2004, we described it as a “reliable, highly scalable hosted queue for buffering messages between distributed application components.” Over the years, we have added many features including a dead letter queue, 256 KB payloads, […]
AWS Hot Startups – November 2016 – AwareLabs, Doctor On Demand, Starling Bank, and VigLink
Tina is back with another impressive set of startups! — Jeff; This month we are featuring four hot AWS-powered startups: AwareLabs – Helping small businesses build smart websites Doctor On Demand – Delivering fast, easy, and cost-effective access to top healthcare providers. Starling Bank – Mobile banking for the next generation. VigLink – Powering content-driven […]
New – SaaS Subscriptions on AWS Marketplace
You can now find, buy, and use a nice variety of SaaS (Software as a Service) solutions from AWS Marketplace Vendors. The new SaaS solutions run on AWS infrastructure and you will pay only for the service that you consume, with no monthly fees or subscription costs. For example, you can buy security services on […]
Amazon QuickSight Now Generally Available – Fast & Easy to Use Business Analytics for Big Data
After a preview period that included participants from over 1,500 AWS customers ranging from startups to global enterprises, I am happy to be able to announce that Amazon QuickSight is now generally available! When I invited you to join the preview last year, I wrote: In the past, Business Intelligence required an incredible amount of […]
New – GPU-Powered Amazon Graphics WorkSpaces
Update 07/2020 – For the most up to date information on the availability of these graphics bundles please see the Workspace FAQ here. As you can probably tell from my I Love My Amazon WorkSpace post I am kind of a fan-boy! Since writing that post I have found out that I am not alone, […]
New – CloudWatch Events for EBS Snapshots
Cloud computing can improve upon traditional IT operations by giving you the power to automate complex high-level operations that were formerly kept in a runbook or passed along as tribal knowledge. Far too many of these operations involve backup and recovery operations, especially in smaller and less mature organizations. Many AWS customers make great use […]