Category: Launch

In our continuing quest to ensure that Amazon EC2 is applicable to an incredibly broad array of use cases, we are launching a new instance family today. The High Storage Eight Extra Large (hs1.8xlarge) instances are a great fit for applications that require high storage depth and high sequential I/O performance. Each instance includes 117 […]

Update (May 2023) – AWS Data Pipeline service is in maintenance mode and no new features or region expansions are planned. To learn more and to find out how to migrate your existing workloads, please read Migrating workloads from AWS Data Pipeline. Data. Information. Big Data. Business Intelligence. It’s all the rage these days. Companies […]

You may have noticed that we announced Amazon Redshift today a data warehouse service that is a lot faster, simpler, and less expensive than alternatives available today. Let’s Talk About Data A data warehouse is a specialized type of relational database, optimized for high-performance analysis and reporting of transactions. It collects current and historical transactional […]

The AWS Marketplace has been growing by leaps and bounds. The number of listings has been growing steadily and we’re really happy with the number of launches that are taking place. Today we are adding a new Big Data category to the Marketplace. We want to make it easier for you to store and analyze […]

Update (October 2019) – The range retrieval function described in this post is part of Amazon S3 Glacier’s InitiateJob function. You cannot use the S3 API to initiate a range retrieval on an object that has the Glacier storage class. Amazon Glacier is designed for storing data that is infrequently accessed. Once you have stored […]

We launched Amazon Simple Workflow (SWF) earlier this year, introducing a service designed to help developers automate the coordination of work in applications for better scalability and performance. Coordination of work in an application becomes particularly onerous for developers to build when the application needs to manage high volume and/or multiple streams of work concurrently […]

I’m happy to announce that we are launching three new blogs, all focused on developers and each one targeted at a particular language or platform. Here’s what we have for you: The new AWS Mobile Blog is for users of the AWS Mobile SDKs for iOS and Android. The new AWS Ruby Blog is for […]

If you are using Amazon ElastiCache to implement a caching layer in your application, you now have four additional cache node types to choose from, bringing the total up to eleven types. Here are the new types and their specs: cache.t1.micro has 213 MB of RAM for caching, and 1 virtual core. cache.m1.medium has 3.35 […]