AWS News Blog
Category: Launch*
New – AWS Budgets and Forecasts
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 […]
Read MoreNew – Alexa Skills Kit, Alexa Voice Service, Alexa Fund
is a new type of device designed around your voice. Echo connects to Alexa, a cloud-based voice service powered (of course) by . 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 , you simply […]
Read MoreNew AWS Quick Starts – Trend Micro Deep Security and Microsoft Lync Server
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 template that follows best AWS practices for security and […]
Read MoreNew – Tag Your Amazon Glacier Vaults
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 retrieval policies […]
Read MoreNew Preferred Payment Currency for AWS – Canadian Dollars (CAD)
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 […]
Read MoreNew APN Competency – Marketing and Commerce
The allows partners to differentiate themselves and to share their expertise in particular market segments and topical areas by qualifying for one or more APN Competencies. To date we have recognized partners that have relevant experience and special expertise in the following areas: Big Data Storage Life Sciences Healthcare Digital Media Microsoft SAP Oracle Marketing […]
Read MoreNew T2.Large Instances
We launched the T2 instances last summer (see my post, New Low Cost EC2 Instances with Burstable Performance for more information). These instances give you a generous amount of baseline capacity and the ability to automatically and transparently scale up to full-core processing power on an as-needed basis. The bursting model is based on “CPU […]
Read MoreNew – Apache Spark on Amazon EMR
My colleague Jon Fritz wrote the guest post below to introduce a powerful new feature for . We updated it on May 16, 2017 in order to describe some new console features and to account for the availability of Spark 2.0. — Jeff; I’m happy to announce that Amazon EMR now supports Apache Spark. Amazon […]
Read MoreNew – Simplified Reserved Instance Options for Amazon RDS
Reserved Instances have been a part of the AWS pricing model for quite some time. You can reserve an instance and receive a significant discount, along with a capacity reservation, when you purchase a Reserved Instance (RI). You don’t need to make any code or administrative changes in order to benefit from Reserved Instances. We’ll […]
Read MoreThe New M4 Instance Type (Bonus: Price Reduction on M3 & C4)
We launched with a single instance type (m1.small) way back in 2006! Since then, we have added many new types in response to customer demand, enabled by improvements in memory and processor technology (see my recent post, EC2 Instance History, for a look back in time). Today we are adding new M4 instances in five […]
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