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Free Online Training to Help You Learn AWS Security Fundamentals

My colleague Janna Pellegrino shared the guest post below to introduce you to the newest version of our AWS Security Fundamentals Course. — Jeff; Information security is deeply important to our customers. AWS Security Fundamentals is a free, online course that introduces you to fundamental cloud computing and AWS security concepts, including AWS access control […]

Now Open – AWS Asia Pacific (Mumbai) Region

September 8, 2021: Amazon Elasticsearch Service has been renamed to Amazon OpenSearch Service. See details. August 4, 2023: Updated list of AWS Consulting Partners. We are expanding the AWS footprint again, this time with a new region in Mumbai, India. AWS customers in the area can use the new Asia Pacific (Mumbai) Region to better […]

AWS Week in Review – April 25, 2016

Let’s take a quick look at what happened in AWS-land last week: Monday April 25 We announced updated AWS CloudFormation Support for EC2, ECS, Lambda, and GameLift. We announced that AWS IoT is Now Available in the Asia Pacific (Singapore) Region. We announced that AWS Marketplace for Desktop Apps is Now Available in the EU […]

GE Oil & Gas – Digital Transformation in the Cloud

GE Oil & Gas is a relatively young division of General Electric, the product of a series of acquisitions made by parent company General Electric starting in the late 1980s. Today GE Oil &Gas is pioneering the digital transformation of the company. In the guest post below, Ben Cabanas, the CTO of GE Transportation and […]

Hot Startups on AWS – April 2016 – Robinhood, Dubsmash, Sharethrough

Continuing with our focus on hot AWS-powered startups (see Hot Startups on AWS – March 2016 for more info), this month I would like to tell you about: Robinhood – Free stock trading to democratize access to financial markets. Dubsmash – Bringing joy to communication through video. Sharethrough – An all-in-one native advertising platform. Robinhood […]

Autheos – At the Nexus of Marketing and E-Commerce

In today’s guest post, Leon Mergen, CTO of Autheos, reviews their company history and their move to AWS. — Jeff; Adding video to a product page on an e-commerce site is perhaps the single most effective way to drive increased sales — studies have shown sales conversion rates can go up by more than two […]

AWS Week in Review – April 18, 2016

September 8, 2021: Amazon Elasticsearch Service has been renamed to Amazon OpenSearch Service. See details. Let’s take a quick look at what happened in AWS-land last week: Monday April 18 We announced that AWS CodePipeline Now Integrates with AWS CodeCommit. We announced that AWS CloudFormation Now Supports Amazon API Gateway, and Includes Improved Support for […]