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Here are the next batch of podcasts that I recorded on Tuesday, September 1 at the AWS Loft in San Francisco as part of the Intel Startup Spotlight for the AWS Podcast. I spoke with startups Compgun, Primadesk, SkinnyPrice. I also spoke with Cameron Peron, a startup advisor. Here are the episodes and the show […]

I was super-double-extra busy last week and did not have time to assemble the Week in Review as usual. I’m playing catch-up now! Monday November 30 We announced an AWS Certification Update – ISO 27017. The AWS Big Data Blog announced that Big Data AWS Training Course Gets Big Update. Cloudyn shared Top 7 Cloud […]

Many AWS customers and partners have been asking for a programmatic way to access prices for AWS services. This information can be used in several ways. Some potential customers are evaluating the feasibility and cost-effectiveness of moving their on-premises workloads to the cloud and want to “do the math.” Current customers and partners would like […]

Early in the fall I spent two days talking to startups and recording their stories in the basement of the AWS Loft in San Francisco as part of the Intel Startup Spotlight focus for the AWS Podcast. I published the first four interviews a couple of months ago. Life got kind of busy (this little […]

Let’s take a quick look at what happened in AWS-land last week: Monday November 23 We announced that EC2 Dedicated Hosts Are Now Available. The AWS Startup Collection talked about Building IoT Solutions with AWS and Intel. The CloudCheckr Blog talked about Unused and Idle Resources in AWS. The N2WS Blog showed you How to […]

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 November 16 The AWS Security Blog announced that the AWS Security Token Service (STS) Is Now Active by Default in All AWS Regions. Eric Hammond talked about […]

My colleague Jon Fritz wrote the guest post below to introduce you to the newest version of Amazon EMR. — Jeff; Today we are announcing Amazon EMR release 4.2.0, which adds support for Apache Spark 1.5.2, Ganglia 3.6 for Apache Hadoop and Spark monitoring, and new sandbox releases for Presto (0.125), Apache Zeppelin (0.5.5), and […]

Earlier this year, my colleague Peter Moon shared our plans to launch an AWS SDK for Go. As you will read in Peter’s guest post below, the SDK is now generally available! — Jeff; At AWS, we work hard to promote and serve the developer community around our products. This is one of the reasons […]