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We are looking for some additional Developer Support Engineers to join our Seattle-based team. I sat down with a couple of the team members to learn more about what they doing during a typical day. Here’s a rough time line that we put together for someone working the day shift: Get to the office and […]

We are excited to announce that weve added support for job flow debugging in the AWS Management Console making Elastic MapReduce even easier to use for developing large data processing and analytics applications.  This capability allows customers to track progress and identify issues in the steps, jobs, tasks, or task attempts of their job flows.  […]

I’d like to highlight a few of the nearly one hundred open positions on the AWS team. If you are a software engineer, manager, technical writer, program manager, or product manager and you like to work on cutting-edge projects with world-scale impact, you owe it to yourself to look at these positions. If you are […]

Update (November 11, 2020) – New link for the whitepaper. I am very happy to announce our new AWS whitepaper “Architecting for the Cloud: Best Practices.” For several years, software architects have discovered and implemented several concepts and best practices to build highly scalable applications. Today, these concepts are even more applicable because of ever-growing […]

We’ve just put a number of AWS Solution pages on line to provide more information about some of the more popular ways that our customers put AWS to use. Here’s what we have: Application Hosting Backup Storage Content Delivery E-Commerce Applications Enterprise IT HPC Applications Media Hosting Search Engines Web Hosting iPhone Application Hosting Facebook […]

AWS-Powered Walkshed is a finalist in the NYC Big Apps Contest and they need your vote in order to win! Built by Philadelphia-based Avencia, Walkshed combines 10 data sources chosen from the NYC Data Mine to compute and display personalized walkability maps based on a set of seventeen priorities such as proximity to grocery stores, […]

The AWS Management Console now supports Amazon EC2’s Elastic Load Balancing feature. Here’s a tour, starting with the navigation pane: Clicking on Load Balancers displays all of your Elastic Load Balancers. If you don’t have any, you see the Create button instead: When you click on the Create button you’ll see the four-step wizard: In […]

Amazon CloudFront now supports streaming of media files stored in Amazon S3. You can now use CloudFront to improve access to your static content (HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and so forth) as well as your streaming content. We are using version 3.5.2 of the Adobe Flash Media Server (FMS) and we support the RTMP, RTMPT (HTTP […]