AWS News Blog
Category: News
New Logstash Plugin – Search DynamoDB Content using Elasticsearch
When I take a look at our recent service releases and combine it with some of the AWS-related repos on GitHub, an interesting trend becomes apparent. It seems to me that connecting AWS services to each other and to third party tools is becoming more and more common. For example, in a recent post, I […]
New – Monitor Your AWS Free Tier Usage
I strongly believe that you need to make a continuous investment in learning about new tools and technologies that will enhance your career. When I began my career in the software industry, the release cycles for hardware and software were measured in months, quarters, or years. Back then (the 1980’s, to be precise) you could […]
AWS Training & Certification Update – New Windows-Focused Learning Quests
My colleague Janna Pellegrino is happy to be able to share news of our latest learning quests in today’s guest post! One of the easiest ways to learn how you can benefit from the AWS cloud is with hands-on practice. Self-paced labs provide this hands-on training in a live practice environment. AWS subject matter experts […]
Welcome the Newest AWS Community Heroes (Summer 2015)
I would like to extend a warm welcome to the newest AWS Community Heroes: Adam Smolnik Kai Hendry Onur Salk Paolo Latella Raphael Francis Rob Linton The Heroes share their enthusiasm for AWS via social media, blogs, events, user groups, and workshops. Let’s take a look at their bios to learn more. Adam Smolnik Adam […]
New – AWS Mobile SDK for Xamarin
We want to make sure that developers can use the programming language of their choice to build AWS-powered applications that run on many different types of devices and in a wide variety of environments. As you can see from the AWS Tools page, we already support multiple mobile (iOS, Android, and Unity) and counter-top (Alexa […]
New Amazon CloudWatch Action – Reboot EC2 Instance
Amazon CloudWatch monitors your cloud resources and applications, including Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances. You can track cloud, system, and application metrics, see them in graphical form, and arrange to be notified (via a CloudWatch alarm) if they cross a threshold value that you specify. You can also stop, terminate, or recover an […]
New – CloudWatch Metrics for Amazon WorkSpaces
AWS customers are deploying Amazon WorkSpaces at scale in medium and large organizations. For example, health care company Johnson & Johnson is using WorkSpaces to realize the long-promised security and efficacy benefits of virtual desktops, in a world populated by a diverse workforce that would like to use their own computing devices if possible (also […]
New – AWS Partner Program for SaaS
Back in the heyday of shrink-wrap software, the time between major releases was often measured in quarters or years. This created a long, slow feedback loop that often left customers waiting far too long for new features and bug fixes. Today, Software as as Service (SaaS), often powered by an agile development methodology and supported […]