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As of April 21, 2014, you will no longer be able to retrieve the existing secret access key(s) for your AWS (root) account. If you have become dependent on this feature, you should download your key from the legacy security credentials page now and then save it in a safe and secure location. Better yet, […]

Let’s take a quick look at what happened in AWS-land last week: Monday, March 3 We announced an Update to the AWS Activate Program. We announced that AWS CloudFormation now supports AWS OpsWorks. The AWS Ruby Development Blog announced that Ruby 2.1 is Now Available on AWS OpsWorks. Tuesday, March 4 We announced that Red […]

A fully-supported version of the SAP HANA environment is now available on the AWS cloud. SAP has certified this version for production workloads in a single-node setup and you can count on it for all of your HANA-backed SAP Business Warehouse (BW) and OLAP scenarios. I first wrote about the SAP HANA database and the […]

Update (July 20, 2017) – Fixed the Hive commands and removed a reference to a tutorial that no longer exists. AWS Elastic Load Balancing helps you to build systems that are highly scalable and highly reliable. You can automatically distribute traffic across a dynamically-sized collection of Amazon EC2 instances, and you have the ability to […]

AWS Activate is a package of resources for startups. It was designed to make it even easier for startups to get started and to quickly scale on AWS. It is an international program, with members from all over the world. The initial benefits package for members of AWS Activate included AWS credits, AWS training, AWS […]

Let’s take a quick look at what happened in AWS-land last week: Monday, February 24 We updated the EC2 IP Address Ranges. Tuesday, February 25 We announced that the AWS Trusted Advisor now Includes CloudFront Content Delivery Optimization. Wednesday, February 26 The Amazon Mobile App Development Blog suggests that you Localize Your App to Connect […]

Update (2017): DynamoDB now supports auto scaling out of the box! Check out my new blog post or read the new documentation. Amazon DynamoDB is a fully-managed NoSQL database. When you create a DynamoDB table, you provision the desired amount of request capacity, taking in to account the amount of read and write traffic and […]

Shon Shah, Senior Product Manager on the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) team, sent along a guest post announcing new IAM functionality that enables you to enforce multi-factor authentication (MFA) when providing programmatic access across AWS accounts. — Jeff; IAM roles enable you to grant an IAM user in one AWS account access to […]