Category: Launch

When I speak with enterprises and mid-sized companies about their plans to move to the Cloud, they often ask me to recommend solution providers that are skilled in the application of AWS and that also have expertise in a particular business domain. We are continuing to add value to the AWS Partner Network (APN) by […]

My colleague Andy Troutman wrote up the guest post below to share news of a powerful new way to use AWS CodeDeploy. — Jeff; Customers use AWS CodeDeploy to manage application updates to their Amazon EC2 instances. CodeDeploy allows developers and administrators to centrally control and track their application deployments across different development, testing, and […]

Amazon WorkSpaces is a managed desktop computing service that runs in the AWS cloud. Administrators can easily provision cloud-based desktops that users can access using the desktop or mobile device of their choice. Today I would like to recap a series of updates and improvements that we have made to WorkSpaces over the last couple […]

We are making some improvements to Amazon CloudFront‘s reporting feature. These improvements will allow you to learn even more about how and where your content is being accessed, export your data for additional analysis, and easily monitor and set alarms on a set of six metrics that CloudFront publishes to CloudWatch. Let’s take a look […]

We launched Amazon S3 nine years ago as of last week! Since that time we have added dozens of features, expanded across the globe, and reduced the prices for storage and bandwidth multiple times. You, our customers, have trusted us with your mission-critical data and have used S3 in thousands of interesting and unique ways. […]

Amazon Elastic Transcoder converts (transcodes) media (video and audio) files into renditions optimized for playback on desktops, mobile devices, tablets, and televisions. Today, we are making Elastic Transcoder even more useful! We’ve added support for generating NTSC outputs (the television standard used in the United States and Canada), and PAL outputs (the standard used in […]

My colleague Omid Behzadian sent a guest post with information about a useful new feature for CloudFront. — Jeff; Amazon CloudFront now gives you a new way to secure your private content: CloudFront signed HTTP cookies. In the past, you could control who is able to access your CloudFront content by adding a custom signature […]

My colleague Sivakanth Mundru sent another guest post my way! This one shows you how to look up AWS API activity using CloudTrail. — Jeff; “The ability to look up API activity in AWS CloudTrail helps us easily troubleshoot security incidents and operational issues. We can now take immediate actions such as following up with […]