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I have a couple of pieces of good news for current and potential users of Amazon Zocalo. Both items are available now and you can start using them today. Zocalo Mobile Apps You can use our new mobile apps to access Zocalo on your iPhone or Android device using your corporate credentials. You can work […]

Let’s take a quick look at what happened in AWS-land last week. I have augmented selected items with links to their re:Invent presentations. Monday, November 10 We announced CloudTrail Integration With CloudWatch Logs. We updated Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL with Read Replicas, 9.3.5 Support, Migration, and Three New Extensions. We announced a new AWS Direct Connect […]

Would you buy a car without driving it? Would you spend tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars on a license for an enterprise software package without seeing it run in a real environment? I hope that your answer to both of these questions is “no way!” As you might already know, I am a […]

Let’s take a quick look at what happened in AWS-land last week: Monday, November 3 I discussed some Sweet Treats for DynamoDB Users. We launched SUSE SLES 12 AMIs for EC2. We announced an Amazon Zocalo Update – MFA, Sharable Links, Web Move, and the Ability to Decline Feedback. We announced that the AWS Storage Gateway […]

I’ve got some good news for Amazon WorkSpaces administrators and users. We are introducing new Value bundles, upgrading the existing Standard bundles, and making Office 2013 available in the Plus bundles. This is the most recent in a series of feature releases for WorkSpaces that includes Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA), zero client support, and the ability […]

Hue is an open source web user interface for Hadoop. Hue allows technical and non-technical users to take advantage of Hive, Pig, and many of the other tools that are part of the Hadoop and EMR ecosystem. You can think of Hue as the primary user interface to Amazon EMR and the AWS Management Console […]

I have become a frequent and devoted user of Amazon Zocalo! I draft my blog posts, share them with the Product Manager and other interested parties via Zocalo, and wait for the comments, suggestions, and other feedback to arrive. Given that I generally have between 8 and 10 blog post drafts underway, I have grown […]

Let’s take a quick look at what happened in AWS-land last week: Monday, October 27 We announced that Amazon Elastic Transcoder API Calls are now Available in CloudTrail. A post on the Databricks blog earlier this month talked about Spark the Fastest Open Source Engine for Sorting a Petabyte. A post on the AWS Java Blog […]