AWS News Blog
API Gateway Update – New Features Simplify API Development
Amazon API Gateway allows you to quickly and easily build and run application backends that are robust and scalable. With the recent addition of usage plans, you can create an ecosystem of partner developers around your APIs. Let’s review some terminology to start things off: Endpoint – A URL (provided by API Gateway) that responds […]
AWS Week in Review – September 12, 2016
Wow! Twenty five (25) external and internal contributors worked together to create this edition of the AWS Week in Review. If you would like to join the party (with the possibility of a free lunch at re:Invent), please visit the AWS Week in Review on GitHub. Monday September 12 We announced a Second Edge Location […]
AWS CloudFormation Update – YAML, Cross-Stack References, Simplified Substitution
AWS CloudFormation gives you the ability to express entire stacks (collections of related AWS resources) declaratively, by constructing templates. You can define a stack, specify and configure the desired resources and their relationship to each other, and then launch as many copies of the stack as desired. CloudFormation will create and set up the resources […]
New – Additional Filtering Options for AWS Cost Explorer
AWS Cost Explorer is a powerful tool that helps you to visualize, understand, and manage your AWS spending (read The New Cost Explorer for AWS to learn more). You can view your spend by service or by linked account, with your choice of daily or monthly granularity. You can also create custom filters based on […]
Earth on AWS: A Home for Geospatial Data on AWS
My colleague Joe Flasher is part of our Open Data team. He wrote the guest post below in order to let you know about our new Earth on AWS project. — Jeff; In March 2015, we launched Landsat on AWS, a Public Dataset made up of imagery from the Landsat 8 satellite. Within the […]
AWS Webinars – September 2016
September 8, 2021: Amazon Elasticsearch Service has been renamed to Amazon OpenSearch Service. See details. At the beginning of the month I blogged about the value of continuing education and shared an infographic that ilustrated the link between continued education and increased pay, higher effectiveness, and decreased proclivity to seek other employment. The pace of […]
Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL – New Minor Versions, Logical Replication, DMS, and More
Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) simplifies the process of setting up, operating, and scaling a relational database in the cloud. With support for six database engines (Amazon Aurora, Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, PostgreSQL, MySQL, and MariaDB) RDS has become a foundation component for many cloud-based applications. We launched support for PostgreSQL in late 2013 and […]
AWS Week in Review – September 5, 2016
This is the third community-driven edition of the AWS Week in Review. Special thanks are due to the 15 internal and external contributors who helped to make this happen. If you would like to contribute, please take a look at the AWS Week in Review on GitHub. Monday September 5 John McKim wrote about GraphQL […]