Category: Launch

The Java Message Service (JMS) allows a pair of cooperating Java applications to create, send, receive, and read messages. The loosely coupled nature of JMS allows one part of the application to operate asynchronously with respect to the other. Until now, you needed to stand up, maintain, and scale a multi-instance (for high availability) JMS […]

When potential users of AWS ask me about ways that it differs from their existing on-premises systems, I like to tell them about EC2 Spot Instances and the EC2 Spot Market. When they learn that they can submit bids for spare EC2 instances at the price of their choice, their eyes widen and they start […]

Earlier this year we welcomed the first AWS Community Heroes. As I wrote at the time, these hard-working folks were selected for the program because they routinely deliver high-quality, impactful, developer-focused activities to the AWS Community. More Heroes Today I would like to welcome eight new heroes! Java developer Satoshi Yokota is the Founder & […]

My colleague Jarrod Guthrie sent me a blog post with information about four new reports for CloudFront. — Jeff; Amazon CloudFront continues to add reporting features. Recently, launched we’ve usage charts, cache statistics reports, a popular object report, and near-real time operational metrics via Amazon CloudWatch. Today, CloudFront added four more reports that will give […]

My colleague Adi Krishnan wrote the following guest post to tell you about the newest addition to the Amazon Kinesis API. — Jeff; Amazon Kinesis is a fully managed service for real-time processing of streaming data at massive scale. Customers love the fact that they can put any amount of data in to a Kinesis […]

The AWS Partner Network (APN) is a rapidly growing ecosystem of Consulting and Technology partners. These partners push the boundaries of what can be done with cloud computing by creating and bringing value-added solutions to their customers. Our goal is to continue to support the APN partners as they work to build successful businesses on […]

Our customers continue to increase the sophistication and intensity of the compute-bound workloads that they run on the Cloud. Applications such as top-end website hosting, online gaming, simulation, risk analysis, and rendering are voracious consumers of CPU cycles and can almost always benefit from the parallelism offered by today’s multicore processors. The New C4 Instance […]

Many AWS customers have been building applications that use Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) for cost-efficient and highly scalable persistent or temporary object storage. Some of them want to initiate processing on the objects as they arrive; others want to capture information about the objects and log it for tracking or security purposes. These […]