AWS News Blog
Category: Launch
New – AWS Management Console Support for the Simple Email Service
The Amazon Simple Email Service gives you a simple and cost-effective way to send any volume of bulk or transactional email. We send millions of emails on behalf of thousands of Amazon SES customers each and every day. You can now access Amazon SES through the AWS Management Console. The new SES tab provides you […]
Read MoreNew – Use Your Microsoft BizSpark Licenses on AWS
It is a great time to be a software developer with an entrepreneurial mindset. You can get access to development tools, startup resources, and much more at no charge or at a very low cost these days. You don’t need to get venture capital or max out your credit cards in order to get started. […]
Read MoreNew – Amazon S3 Server Side Encryption for Data at Rest
A lot of technical tasks that seem simple in theory are often very complex to implement. For example, let’s say that you want to encrypt all of the data that you store in Amazon S3. You need to choose an encryption algorithm, create and store keys (while keeping the keys themselves safe from prying eyes), […]
Read MoreNew Docs: AWS Getting Started Guides for Linux and Microsoft Windows
We’ve created three new documents to make it even easier for you to get started with AWS: The first two documents (Getting Started Guide: AWS Web Application Hosting for Linux and Getting Started Guide: AWS Web Application Hosting for Microsoft Windows) are designed to help you create scalable, robust web applications that handle sophisticated demands […]
Read MorePowerful New Features for AWS CloudFormation
I’ve been making a point of telling my live audiences about AWS CloudFormation lately. Many large-scale AWS customers are starting to appreciate the fact that they can describe and instantiate entire application stacks using parameterized templates (see my original CloudFormation blog post for more info), allowing them to create a repeatable process around it. Today […]
Read MoreAmazon CloudFront & Route 53 – New Edge Location: Brazil
We’ve just added an edge location in Brazil (number 20 to be precise) to Amazon CloudFront and Amazon Route 53. This is our first edge location in South America. The new location will speed up references to static and streamed content that are made from locations in South America, and will also accelerate the resolution […]
Read MoreAmazon Linux AMI – General Availability and New Features
We introduced the Amazon Linux AMI in beta form about a year ago with the goal of providing a simple, stable, and secure Linux environment for server-focused workloads. We’ve been really happy with the adoption we’ve seen so far, and we continue to improve the product and further integrate it with other Amazon Web Services […]
Read MoreNew Whitepaper: Amazon’s Corporate IT Deploys Corporate Intranet Running SharePoint 2010 on AWS
Within Amazon, we often use the phrase “drinking our own champagne” to describe our practice of using our own products and services to prove them out under actual working conditions. We build products that we can use ourselves. We believe in them. Amazon’s Corporate IT recently wrapped up an important project and they have just […]
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