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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 […]

Let’s take a quick look at what happened in AWS-land last week: Tuesday, February 18 We announced Health Check Improvements for Amazon Route 53. Wednesday, February 19 We announced that AWS Elastic Load Balancing Now Supports Perfect Forward Secrecy and Other Security Enhancements. Thursday, February 20 We added new AWS Customer Success Stories from BrightRoll, […]

Delivering high-quality video or audio content to web and mobile clients is a tricky endeavor. Beyond supporting a multitude of formats and device types, you need to account for frequent and dramatic changes in the quality of each customers Internet connection. Latency, available bandwidth, transmission error rates, and other factors stand to compromise the overall […]

Amazon Route 53 is a highly available and scalable Domain Name Service. As such, it efficiently translates names such as aws.amazon.com into IP addresses. Route 53 also includes a very handy failover feature. Once enabled, this feature performs health checks at regular intervals, and then switches to a backup site if the primary one appears […]

Let’s take a quick look at what happened in AWS-land last week: Monday, February 10 We announced that AWS CloudFormation Now Supports Amazon Redshift. We announced another AWS Test Drive : Esri Maps for SharePoint. Tuesday, February 11 We announced that the G2 Instance Type is Now Available in the Asia Pacific (Tokyo) Region. Wednesday, […]

As regular readers of this blog know, I am a big fan of the AWS Test Drive Program. I love the fact that it gives you the ability to quickly and easily launch and evaluate a wide variety of server-based applications at no charge. Instead of spending hours downloading and configuring these applications on your […]

Let’s take a quick look at what happened in AWS-land last week: Monday, February 3 We updated the Amazon CloudFront Public IP Address Ranges. Tuesday, February 4 The Amazon Mobile App Distribution Blog announced that you can Earn a Guaranteed $1.50 CPM on Banner Ads from the Amazon Mobile Ads Network for a limited time. […]