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The AWS cloud is a very nice home for startups. You can start small (perhaps with nothing more than a static web page hosted on Amazon S3) and then grow to world-scale as your business develops and grows. You can even participate in the annual AWS Startup Challenge! In order to make it even easier […]

Let’s take a quick look at what happened in AWS-land last week: Monday, September 30 We announced that version 2013.09 of the Amazon Linux AMI is now available. The AWS .Net Development Blog published an article to show you how to Handle Credentials with AWS Tools for Windows PowerShell. The AWS Java Development Blog announced […]

March 2018 — For updated information on this topic, please visit this blog post. Many AWS customers use Amazon CloudFront to stream videos to various devices. As you may know, video streaming can be implemented using a wide variety of protocols that are layered on top of HTTP. As is the case with just about […]

In the latest episode of The AWS Report, I spoke with Marc Nager to learn more about Startup Weekend and how they answer the question “where do you go when you have a great idea?” He walks me through the 54 hours of the weekend (which starts on Wednesday in some countries) culminating in the […]

After 35 years in the IT business, I have seen an incredible amount of change. From mainframes to minicomputers to personal computers, and now to dynamic cloud-based infrastructure, each technology generation promises increased power, greater flexibility, lower costs, and broader applicability. I recently returned from a trip to Washington DC where I was able to […]

Let’s take a quick look at what happened in AWS-land last week: Monday, September 23 We added five new AWS Case Studies. The first two are in Korean: AppDisco and DevSisters. The other three are in English: Dow Jones, LinkedIn, and Trend Micro. We announced that you can now Enable Single Sign-On to the AWS […]

We will have plenty of content and activities for start-ups at this year’s AWS re:Invent conference. In addition to the training bootcamps that will give you the technical knowledge needed to build your AWS-powered startup, we have a wide variety of sessions to help you learn about AWS and to hear how your peers are […]

Amazon RDS for Oracle Database now supports Oracle Statspack. You can use Oracle Statspack to collect and analyze database performance metrics and use them to diagnose problems and to increase performance. The Oracle Statspack is available for all Oracle editions and engine versions supported by Amazon RDS for Oracle. You can install it on your […]