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AWS Direct Connect makes it easy to establish a dedicated network connection from your premises to AWS. You can establish private connectivity between AWS and your datacenter, office, or colocation environment. This has the potential to reduce your data transfer costs, increase bandwidth throughput, and provide a more consistent network experience than Internet-based connections. Today […]

AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) gives you fine-grained control over access to AWS services and resources. You can create and manage AWS users and groups and then use IAM permissions (in the form of policies) to allow and deny access to AWS resources. The AWS Billing Console lets you see how much you are […]

Let’s take a quick look at what happened in AWS-land last week: Monday, June 30 We announced More Regions, More Services and Cool Partners for Amazon CloudTrail. We announced that Amazon Kinesis is now Available in More Regions. We announced a Free Trial and Price Reductions for Amazon Redshift. Our friends at Netflix announced the Security […]

Amazon Route 53 is a highly available and highly scalable DNS service. Route 53 is able to meet the needs of complex enterprises, while remaining simple enough to be a good fit for personal websites. We added support for Route 53 health checks a little over a year ago, and have enhanced the model several […]

My colleague Steve McPherson sent along a nice guest post to get you thinking about ways to use Elastic MapReduce in non-traditional ways! — Jeff; Amazon Elastic MapReduce (EMR) is a fully managed Hadoop-as-a-service platform that removes the operational overhead of setting up, configuring and managing the end-to-end lifecycle of Hadoop clusters. Many of our […]

Let’s take a quick look at what happened in AWS-land last week: Monday, June 23 We announced Delivery Notifications for Simple Email Service. This launch was also covered in depth in the Amazon SES Blog. We published Episode 92 of the AWS Podcast. In this special “deep dive” episode, Simon interviews Marc Napoli to learn more […]

Amazon Simple Email Service (SES) is a simple, scalable, and cost-effective way to send transactional email, marketing messages, and other types of high-quality content. You can connect your application to Amazon SES using the SES SMTP Interface or a full set of APIs. Either way, you will be able to send your messages with high […]

Let’s take a quick look at what happened in AWS-land last week: Monday, June 16 Julien Vaéry published a very nice AWS Deployment Guide for VPC and Elastic Beanstalk. A helpful blog post by Brian Lowry showed you how to Setup multiple SSL certificates on an Amazon EC2 instance using a VPC. The AWS Application Management […]