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AWS Elastic Beanstalk simplifies the process of deploying and scaling Java, .NET, PHP, Node.js, Python, Ruby, Go, and Docker web applications and services. Today we are making Elastic Beanstalk even more useful by adding three new features: Easy cloning of environments. 1-Click IAM role creation. Support for periodic worker tasks. Let’s take a look at […]

Let’s take a quick look at what happened in AWS-land last week: Monday, February 9 We added AWS Customer Succcess Stories from Financial Times, FreeCharge, Freshdesk, NuBank, and WebMotors. We launched Tagging for ElastiCache Clusters and Snapshots. AWS Evangelist Ian Massingham posted a new What is Cloud Computing Video. A post on the Stelligent Blog […]

In  a post on the Box Blog, co-founder Aaron Levie rolled out the new Box Enterprise Key Management (EKM) offering. This product was designed to allow companies to use Box’s content management and collaboration tools while retaining control over their own encryption keys. As he notes in the post, Enterprise Key Management is powered by […]

April 30, 2018: We’ve discontinued Amazon Mobile Analytics. Amazon Pinpoint now provides the analytics features that Amazon Mobile Analytics previously offered. If you’re new to Mobile Analytics, you can [integrate the mobile analytics features of Amazon Pinpoint into your app]. If you currently use Amazon Mobile Analytics, you can [migrate to Amazon Pinpoint]. Let’s take […]

The first stable release of version 2 of the AWS SDK for Ruby is now available, complete with support for more than 40 AWS services. You can install the aws-sdk gem from RubyGems and get started with the new SDK right now. My colleagues have been writing detailed blog posts about the new features as […]

Let’s take a quick look at what happened in AWS-land last week: Monday, January 26 We added AWS Customer Succcess Stories from ClicThat, Concrete Software, eFront, Flypay, Geo.me, Kenshoo, IATA, Tadiran Telecom, Toronto Star, Wix, and YIT. We added a Second Location in Korea for CloudFront and Route 53. A new article showed you how […]

Let’s take a quick look at what happened in AWS-land last week: Monday, January 19 We announced Auto-Recovery for EC2. We announced that Amazon ElastiCache is now available in the Europe (Frankfurt) region. We announced Auto Scaling and Elastic Load Balancing Support in ClassicLink. We updated the Enterprise Backup and Recovery (On Premises to AWS) […]

Enterprise-scale AWS customers often ask me for advice on how to connect their existing on-premises compute and storage infrastructure to the AWS cloud.  They are not interested in all-or-nothing solutions that render their existing IT model obsolete. Instead, they want to enhance the model by taking advantage of the security, scale, performance, and cost-effectiveness of […]