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Earlier this year we opened up the AWS Pop-up Loft for a pilot run of almost four weeks in San Francisco. During that time, many AWS developers dropped in to network, listen, learn, work, and socialize. Some developers came and enjoyed the structured, scheduled events. Others came in with their laptops, found a quiet corner, […]

I am happy to be able to announce that AWS has achieved the first DoD Provisional Authorization under the DoD Cloud Security Model’s at security impact levels 3-5! AWS previously received a DoD Provisional Authorization for security impact levels 1-2. This new Authorization covers AWS GovCloud (US) and DoD customers can now move forward with […]

Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) is a fast and flexible push messaging service. You can easily send messages to Apple, Google, Fire OS and Windows devices, including Android devices in China (via Baidu Cloud Push). Today we are enhancing SNS with support for large topics (more than 10,000 subscribers) and authenticated delivery to MPNS […]

Let’s take a quick look at what happened in AWS-land last week: Monday, August 11 We announced Multi-Factor Authentication for Amazon WorkSpaces. We announced that you can now Tag Your Elastic Load Balancers. The AWS Windows and .NET Developer Blog talked about S3 Server Side Encryption With Windows PowerShell. We published Episode 96 of the AWS […]

Elastic Load Balancing helps you to build applications that are resilient and easy to scale. You can create both public-facing and internal load balancers in the AWS Management Console with a couple of clicks. Today we are launching a helpful new feature for Elastic Load Balancing. You can now add up to ten tags (name/value […]

Let’s take a quick look at what happened in AWS-land last week: Monday, August 4 We announced that Amazon RDS Now Supports T2 Instances. We unveiled the Updated IAM Console. We posted Episode 95 of the AWS Podcast. Tuesday, August 5 An article on CIO.COM explained How AWS Helped Scale App for World Cup Social Media Hub. […]

The AWS SDK for Python (also known as Boto) has been updated and is now compatible with Python 3. You can now build AWS applications using versions 2.6, 2.7, 3.3, and 3.4 of Python. Here’s a screen shot of some Boto code running on Python 3.4.1: (py3)$ python Python 3.4.1 (default, May 19 2014, 13:10:29) […]

We launched the T2 instance type last month. This new Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instance type provides a solid level of baseline performance and the ability to burst above the baseline as needed. As I wrote in my blog post, these instances are ideal for development, testing, and medium-traffic web sites. Today we […]