Category: News

Update (September 23, 2015): The 2012-era report mentioned in the blog post has been superseded by a newer one published in 2015. The post has been updated accordingly. Analysts Randy Perry and Stephen Hendrick of IDC have just published a commissioned white paper titled The Business Value of Amazon Web Services Accelerates Over Time. You […]

The Plot So FarAs the applications that you build with AWS grow in scale, scope, and complexity, you haven’t been shy about asking us for more locations, more features, more storage, or more speed. Modern web and mobile applications are often highly I/O dependent. They need to store and retrieve lots of data in order […]

Today’s guest blogger is Kai Zhao, a Product Manager on the AWS Identity and Access Management team. Kai brings word of a powerful new IAM feature. — Jeff; Introduction In 2009, we introduced AWS Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA), a security feature that requires users to prove physical possession of an MFA device by providing a valid […]

Our friends at Netflix have embraced AWS whole-heartedly. They have shared much of what they have learned about how they use AWS to build, deploy, and host their applications. You can read the Netflix Tech Blog benefit from what they have learned. Earlier this week they released Asgard, a web-based cloud management and deployment tool, […]

The Amazon Simple Workflow Service (SWF) is used to power highly scalable distributed systems at NASA (case study), Sage Bionetworks (case study), and a number of our other customers. In order to help you to better understand SWF, Balan Subramanian, SWF Product Manager, hosted an hour-long webinar: Maxim Fateev, AWS Principal Engineer, spent another hour […]

I have three exciting news items for Amazon EC2 users: You can now use Auto Scaling to place bids on the EC2 Spot Market on your behalf. Similarly, you can now place Spot Market bids from within an AWS CloudFormation template. We have a new article to show you how to track Spot instance activity […]

You can now access your AWS billing data programmatically. This has been a much-requested feature and I’m confident that it will be put to good use right away. To get started, all you need to do is to provide an Amazon S3 bucket for your billing data, give the AWS Billing system permission to write […]

Last week one of my colleagues stopped me in the hall and said “Jeff, you have to tell our customers about all of the great work that we are doing with SAP.” I asked him for some details and he was happy to oblige. SAP Business All-in-One is an important piece of enterprise software, a […]

Categorization is one of the more popular use cases for the Amazon Mechanical Turk. A categorization HIT (Human Intelligence Task) asks the Worker to select from a list of options. Our customers use HITs of this type to assign product categories, match URLs to business listings, and to discriminate between line art and photographs. Using […]

Effectively immediately, Amazon DynamoDB is available in three additional AWS Regions. Here’s the complete list: US East (Northern Virginia) EU (Ireland) Asia Pacific (Tokyo) US West (Northern California) – New US West (Oregon) – New Asia Pacific (Singapore) – New You can find the complete list of HTTP and HTTPS service endpoints here. For more […]