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In the latest episode of The AWS Report, I spoke with my colleague Steven Halliwell, Global Director of Education and State/Local Government for AWS. We discussed the digital divide, the ways that AWS is used in education (websites, portals, MOOCs, and learning management systems, to name a few), and some specific success stories. We also […]

Amazon ElasticMapReduce gives you the power to quickly and easily process vast amounts of data. You can launch Hadoop clusters that span hundreds or even thousands of nodes. We have launched a major upgrade to the Elastic MapReduce Console to improve usability and to give you access to a multitude of new features. Here’s a […]

I’d like to give you a quick update on AWS CloudHSM. First, the “HSM” is short for Hardware Security Module. As I noted in my earlier blog post: An HSM is a piece of hardware — a dedicated appliance that provides secure key storage and a set of cryptographic operations within a tamper-resistant enclosure. You […]

In the latest episode of The AWS Report, I spoke with Peng Zhao, CTO of MadeiraCloud, to learn more about their WYSIWYG design tool for AWS. We spoke about how and why they built it, and what their customers are using it for. We also spoke about the state of the cloud computing market in […]

Let’s take a quick look at what happened in AWS-land last week: Monday, October 28 I published a new AWS Report video featuring Chris Langway of Optaros. The AWS Application Management Blog discussed CloudFormation and the New AWS CLI. The AWS .Net Development Blog talked about Getting Your EC2 Windows Password. Tuesday, October 29 We […]

In the latest episode of The AWS Report, I spoke with my colleague Robert Peterson to learn more about the AWS Marketplace. We discussed the benefits that it provides to users and vendors. Users get to choose from a wide variety of applications and launch them with one click; vendors have a new distribution channel […]

AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM for short) lets you control access to AWS services and resources using access control policies. IAM includes a large collection of prebuilt policies, and you can also create your own. IAM policies are comprised of policy statements. Each statement either allows or denies access to some AWS services (at […]

I truly enjoy the process of putting blog posts together for new AWS services and features. Many features started out as specific requests from one of the hundreds of thousands of AWS users. With “customer obsession” as one of our core values, all of us on the AWS team do everything that we can to […]