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Let’s take a quick look at what happened in AWS-land last week: Monday, May 12 We announced that the Amazon Simple WorkFlow Service now Supports Amazon CloudTrail. We announced that AWS CloudFormation now Supports Parameter-Only Stack Updates and Updates to the Stack Notification Logic. We announced that AWS Elastic Load Balancing now Supports Resource-Level Permissions. The […]

Let’s take a quick look at what happened in AWS-land last week: Monday, May 5 We announced that you can now Configure Auto Scaling Metrics With CloudFormation , and that you can also Configure Cross-Origin Resource Sharing, Object Versioning, and Lifecycle Management for Amazon S3. We announced that the AWS Elastic Beanstalk Containers have been Updated, […]

I’m pleased to be able to announce that Amazon CloudFront is now part of the AWS Free Usage Tier. If you are eligible for the Free Usage Tier, you can now transfer up to 50 Gigabytes of data and up to 2,000,000 requests per month at no charge. The usage is aggregated across all of […]

Let’s take a quick look at what happened in AWS-land last week: Monday, April 28 We announced an Important Change for your AWS Secret Access Keys. We announced that Amazon SNS Now Supports Server Name Indication (SNI), Along With Other HTTPS Enhancements. Tuesday, April 29 We announced a New Location for the AWS Blog. We […]

Amazon Route 53 is a highly available and scalable Domain Name System (DNS) web service. Last year we introduced Route 53 health checks. You can configure these health checks to route traffic to a backup website in the event that your primary website fails to respond as expected. We have since enhanced the basic health […]

You are now reading the newest version of the AWS Blog! After hosting the blog externally for nearly ten years, we decided to “drink our own champagne” (as we often say at Amazon) and move to an AWS-powered environment. I am happy to be able to report that this blog is generated on Amazon EC2 […]

Last month I urged you to download your secret access key(s) for your AWS (root) account in advance of a planned change in our access model. We have implemented the change and you can no longer retrieve existing secret access keys for the root account. If you lose your secret access key, you must generate […]

Let’s take a quick look at what happened in AWS-land last week: Monday, April 21 We announced New Features for Amazon Redshift. The AWS .NET Development Blog talked about Overriding Endpoints in the AWS SDK for .NET. The AWS Security Blog took on the task of Demystifying EC2 Resource-Level Permissions. Tuesday, April 22 We announced […]