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Amazon DynamoDB is a fast, fully-managed NoSQL database. You can easily create tables, provision the desired amount of read and write capacity, and then store as much information as you’d like. Each item in a DynamoDB table consists of one or more key/value pairs, indexed by a hash key or a combination of a hash […]

You can use Amazon ElastiCache to implement an in-memory storage layer between your application code and your database using the Memcached or Redis engines. Adding an in-memory storage layer can often lead to dramatic speed improvements for database accesses. Regardless of which engine you choose, ElastiCache makes it easy to deploy, operate, and scale a […]

Let’s take a quick look at what happened in AWS-land last week: Monday, April 14 We added AWS customer success stories from Belkin, Channel 4 (UK), Clipkit, Loggly, MairDumont, OnPage.org, and Pharmatechnik. Tuesday, April 15 We announced that you can now Evaluate Security Products With no Software Charges Using AWS Marketplace. Wednesday, April 16 The […]

Let’s take a quick look at what happened in AWS-land last week: Monday, April 7 We added AWS Customer Success Stories from Comba Telecom, Etix, Ideomed, Predictix, Scopely, Sonian, and ScribbleLive. The AWS PHP Development Blog showed you how to Test Webhooks Locally for Amazon SNS. Tuesday, April 8 We announced that the AWS Console […]

Let’s take a quick look at what happened in AWS-land last week: Monday, March 31 We announced a new, instructor-led Big Data on AWS Training Course. We announced Twelve New Instance Types for Elastic MapReduce. We announced the AWS April Webinars, With a Focus on Disaster Recovery. The AWS Application Management Blog listed Three Easy […]

Amazon CloudFront automatically routes requests for your content to the nearest edge location. Behind the scenes, it uses the IP address of the DNS resolver that is making the DNS query for the content. This model worked well back in the days when a particular resolver had a single, fixed geographic location. Today, many popular […]

Let’s take a quick look at what happened in AWS-land last week: Monday, March 24 We added AWS customer success stories from Comcast, GolfTEC, Grok, Nintendo, and mobli. We announced a Major Upgrade to Amazon CloudSearch. Tuesday, March 25 We announced the City on a Cloud Innovation Challenge. Wednesday, March 26 We hosted the first […]

We announced a Limited Preview of Amazon WorkSpaces at last fall’s AWS re:Invent conference and I wrote a detailed blog post at that time. As you may recall, Amazon WorkSpaces provides a desktop computing environment in the cloud. It gives enterprise IT the power to meet the needs of a diverse user base by providing […]