Category: Launch

Have you ever taken the time to watch the access and error logs from your web server scroll past? In addition to legitimate well-formed requests from users and spiders, you will probably see all sorts of unseemly and downright scary requests far too often.  For example, I checked the logs for one of my servers […]

September 8, 2021: Amazon Elasticsearch Service has been renamed to Amazon OpenSearch Service. See details. Elasticsearch  is a real-time, distributed search and analytics engine that fits nicely into a cloud environment. It is document-oriented and does not require a schema to be defined up-front. It supports structured, unstructured, and time-series queries and serves as a […]

AWS CloudFormation makes it easy for you to create and manage a collection of related AWS resources (which we call a stack). Starting from a template, CloudFormation creates the resources in an orderly and predictable fashion, taking in to account dependencies between them, and connecting them together as defined in the template. A CloudFormation template […]

It’s probably no surprise that information security is one of today’s most sought after IT specialties. It’s also deeply important to our customers and any company considering moving to the cloud. So, today we’re launching a new AWS Training curriculum focused on security. The curriculum’s two new classes are designed to help you meet your […]

My colleague Luis Daniel Soto has been working with AWS Community Hero Lynn Langit to create a comprehensive collection of resources for customers who are ready to run Big Data applications on AWS! Here’s what they have to say…. — Jeff; Today the AWS Marketplace is launching a new on-line video library designed to help […]

We launched the Amazon Simple Email Service (SES) way back in 2011, with a focus on deliverability — getting mail through to the intended recipients. Today, the service is used by Amazon and our customers to send billions of transactional and marketing emails each year. Today we are launching a much-requested new feature for SES. […]

My colleague Angel Pizarro wrote the guest post below to tell you about an amazing new AWS Public Data Set! — Jeff; You can now access the genome sequence data of 3,024 rice varieties that have been aligned and analyzed against five different reference genomes as an AWS Public Data Set.  The data contains over […]

Like all AWS services, the Amazon S3 team is always listening to customers in order to better understand their needs. After studying a lot of feedback and doing some analysis on access patterns over time, the team saw an opportunity to provide a new storage option that would be well-suited to data that is accessed […]