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AWS Hot Startups – April 2017
Spring is here, the flowers are blooming and Tina Barr is back with more great startups for you to check out! -Ana Welcome back to another month of hot AWS-powered startups! Today we have three exciting startups: Beekeeper – simplifying employee communication in the workplace. Betterment – making investing easier for everyone. ClearSlide – a […]
Read MoreAnnouncing 5 Partners That Have Achieved AWS Service Partner Status for AWS Service Catalog
Allison Johnson from the AWS Marketplace wrote the guest post below to share some important APN news. -Ana At last November’s re:Invent, we announced the AWS Service Delivery Program to help AWS customers find partners in the AWS Partner Network (APN) with expertise in specific AWS services and skills. Today we are adding Management Tools […]
Read MorePollexy – Building a Special Needs Voice Assistant with Amazon Polly and Raspberry Pi
April is Autism Awareness month and about 1 in 68 children in the U.S. have been identified with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) (CDC 2014). In this post from Troy Larson, a Sr. Devops Cloud Architect here at AWS, you get an introduction to a project he has been working on to help his son Calvin. […]
Read MoreData Compression Improvements in Amazon Redshift Bring Compression Ratios Up to 4x
Maor Kleider, Senior Product Manager with Amazon Redshift, wrote today’s guest post. -Ana Amazon Redshift, is a fast, fully managed, petabyte-scale data warehousing service that makes it simple and cost-effective to analyze all of your data. Many of our customers, including Scholastic, King.com, Electronic Arts, TripAdvisor and Yelp, migrated to Amazon Redshift and achieved agility […]
Read MoreWelcome to the Newest AWS Community Heroes (Spring 2017)
We would like to extend a very warm welcome to the newest AWS Community Heroes: Mark Nunnikhoven SangUk Park James Hall Drew Firment AWS Community Heroes share their knowledge and demonstrate their enthusiasm for AWS in a plethora of ways. They go above and beyond to share AWS insights via social media, blog posts, open […]
Read MoreAWS Hot Startups – March 2017
As the madness of March rounds up, take a break from all the basketball and check out the cool startups Tina Barr brings you for this month! -Ana The arrival of spring brings five new startups this month: Amino Apps – providing social networks for hundreds of thousands of communities. Appboy – empowering brands to […]
Read MoreAWS Global Summits are Coming!
One of the first things I got to do when I joined the Blog team was to attend the summit in New York City last August. Meeting all of our customers, checking out Game Day, and getting to see the enthusiasm of the AWS community made me even more excited to be starting my adventure […]
Read MoreStreamline AMI Maintenance and Patching Using Amazon EC2 Systems Manager | Automation
Here to tell you about using Automation to streamline AMI maintenance and patching is Taylor Anderson, a Senior Product Manager with EC2. -Ana Last December at re:Invent, we launched Amazon EC2 Systems Manager, which helps you automatically collect software inventory, apply OS patches, create system images, and configure Windows and Linux operating systems. These […]
Read MoreAWS and Healthcare: View From the Floor of HIMSS17
Jordin Green is our guest writer today, with an inside view from the floor of HIMSS17. -Ana Empathy. It’s not always a word you hear associated with technology but one might argue it should be a central tenet for the application of technology in healthcare, and I was reminded of that fact as I wandered […]
Read MoreAnnouncing the AWS Health Tools Repository
Tipu Qureshi and Ram Atur join us today with really cool news about a Git repository for AWS Health / Personal Health Dashboard. -Ana Today, we’re happy to release the AWS Health Tools repository, a community-based source of tools to automate remediation actions and customize Health alerts. The AWS Health service provides personalized information about […]
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