Category: Launch

The Amazon Simple Email Service (SES) makes it easy for you to send email with minimum setup and maximum scalability. SES focuses on deliverability (see my blog post, Introducing the Amazon Simple Email Service to learn more about this) so that the messages you send have a high probability of arriving in the intended inboxes […]

As part of our continued effort to allow our partners to share their expertise in particular market segments and topical areas, I’m happy to be able to tell you about our new APN Security Competency. Like all of our competencies, this one gives you access to partners with genuine, hard-earned expertise in an area that […]

Auto Scaling helps you to build systems that respond to changes in the demand for compute power by launching additional Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances or terminating existing ones. As I was thinking about this post, I thought it would be fun to deconstruct Auto Scaling to ensure that I (and you) have […]

The dynamic, pay-as-you-go nature of the AWS Cloud gives you the opportunity to build systems that respond gracefully to changes in load while paying only for the compute, storage, network, database, and other resources that you actually consume. Over the last couple of years, as our customer base has become increasingly sophisticated and cloud-aware, we […]

Amazon Echo is a new type of device designed around your voice. Echo connects to Alexa, a cloud-based voice service powered (of course) by AWS. You can ask Alexa to provide information, answer questions, play music, read the news, and get results or answers instantly. When you are in the same room as an Amazon […]

We have prepared a pair of new AWS Quick Start Reference Deployments for you! As is the case with all AWS Quick Starts, they help you to deploy fully functional enterprise software the AWS cloud in no time flat! Each of the reference deployments includes a AWS CloudFormation template that follows best AWS practices for […]

Amazon Glacier is a secure, durable, and extremely low-cost storage service for data archiving and online backup (see my post, Amazon Glacier: Archival Storage for One Penny Per GB Per Month for an introduction). Since we introduced Glacier in the summer of 2012, we have made it even more useful by adding lifecycle management, data […]

Earlier this year we gave you the option to set the preferred payment currency for your AWS account, with a choice of twelve currencies when you use an eligible Visa or Mastercard to pay your bill. Today I am pleased to announce that we are giving you the option to specify Canadian Dollars (CAD) as […]