AWS News Blog
Category: Launch
AWS Storage Update – S3 & Glacier Price Reductions + Additional Retrieval Options for Glacier
Back in 2006, we launched S3 with a revolutionary pay-as-you-go pricing model, with an initial price of 15 cents per GB per month. Over the intervening decade, we reduced the price per GB by 80%, launched S3 in every AWS Region, and enhanced the original one-size-fits-all model with user-driven features such as web site hosting, […]
New – Web Access for Amazon WorkSpaces
We launched WorkSpaces in late 2013 (Amazon WorkSpaces – Desktop Computing in the Cloud) and have been adding new features at a rapid clip. Here are some highlights from 2016: November 2016 – WorkSpaces adds GPU-Powered Graphics Bundles. October 2016 – WorkSpaces becomes available in the EU (Frankfurt) Region. August 2016 – WorkSpaces offers hourly […]
New for AWS Lambda – Environment Variables and Serverless Application Model (SAM)
I am thrilled by all of the excitement that I see around AWS Lambda and serverless application development. I have shared many serverless success stories, tools, and open source projects in the AWS Week in Review over the last year or two. Today I would like to tell you about two important additions to Lambda: […]
New – Auto Scaling for EMR Clusters
The Amazon EMR team is cranking out new features at an impressive pace (guess they have lots of worker nodes)! So far this quarter they have added all of these features: September – Data Encryption for Apache Spark, Tez, and Hadoop MapReduce. September – Open-sourced EMR-DynamoDB Connector for Apache Hive. November – Stream Processing at […]
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, Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon 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 […]
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 […]