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The new AWS Mobile Hub (Beta) simplifies the process of building, testing, and monitoring mobile applications that make use of one or more AWS services. It helps you skip the heavy lifting of integrating and configuring services by letting you add and configure features to your apps, including user authentication, data storage, backend logic, push […]

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 September 28 We announced that you can now Receive and Process Incoming Email with Amazon SES. We announced an Elastic Beanstalk Update, with Support for Java and […]

Seattle-born musical legend Jimi Hendrix started out his career with a landmark album titled Are You Experienced? I’ve got a similar question for you: Are You Well-Architected? In other words, have you chosen a cloud architecture that is in alignment with the best practices for the use of AWS? We want to make sure that […]

As I have noted in the past, I am a huge fan and devoted user of Amazon WorkSpaces. In fact, every blog post that I have written and illustrated over the last 6 or 7 months has been written on my WorkSpace. The most recent set of AWS podcasts were edited on the same WorkSpace. […]

Let’s take a quick look at what happened in AWS-land last week: Monday September 21 We announced the AWS Pop-up Loft in Berlin. The Cloud Academy Blog shared AWS re:Invent 2015 – A Guide to Cloud Computing’s Biggest Event. Cloudability listed Five Talks not to Miss at re:Invent 2015. The Netflix Tech Blog introduced Lemur […]

Let’s take a quick look at what happened in AWS-land last week: Monday September 14 I discussed Moving Past Windows Server 2003 End of Life using AWS. The AWS Partner Network Blog announced Windows Server on AWS Bootcamps in Seattle and Bangalore. The AWS Security Blog showed you How to Create a Policy that Whitelists […]

The AWS Pop-up Lofts in San Francisco and New York have become hubs and working spaces for developers, entrepreneurs, students, and others who are interested in working with and learning more about AWS. They come to learn, code, meet, collaborate, ask questions, and to hang out with other like-minded folks. I expect the newly opened […]

Amazon Route 53 is a highly available and scalable Domain Name System (DNS) web service. Route 53 connects user requests to infrastructure running in AWS (EC2 instances, load balancers, and S3 buckets), and can also be used to route users to infrastructure outside of AWS. You can configure Route 53 to perform periodic health checks, […]