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In the latest episode of The AWS Report, I spoke with my colleague Manish Dalwadi to get an update on the Amazon Relational Database Service. As Senior Product Manager, Manish listens to customers and sets the overall direction for RDS. In this episode he reviews the “undifferentiated heavy lifting” that RDS does, describes some customers […]

Amazon CloudFront distributes dynamic and static web content produced by an origin server to viewers located anywhere in the world. If the user requests objects that don’t exist (i.e., a 404 Not Found response) or an unauthorized user might attempt to download an object (i.e., a 403 Forbidden response), CloudFront used to display a brief […]

In the latest episode of The AWS Report, I spoke with my colleague Tracy Laxdal to learn more about what she and her team are planning for this year’s AWS re:Invent conference in Las Vegas. We talked about what it was like to walk in to the keynote in the presence of 6,000 AWS users […]

Let’s take a quick look at what happened in AWS-land last week: Monday, September 16 The AWS Java Development Blog posted a Code Snippet to Create a DynamoDB Table. The AWS Security Blog talked about Using Roles to Distribute Non-AWS Credentials to EC2 Instances. Tuesday, September 17 We announced some Updates to the AWS Mobile […]

Would you like to spend an entire day learning more about a particular aspect of AWS? Do you want to start from scratch with an introductory course, do you want to polish your skills with an advanced class in scalability, operations, or game development, or are you looking for something in-between? As part of AWS […]

Amazon CloudFront makes it easy for you to get your dynamic and static content out to a global audience. You simply host your static content in Amazon S3 or your dynamic content on Amazon EC2, create a CloudFront distribution, and use the domain name for the distribution in the URL path for your content. You […]

My colleagues in AWS Marketing have some big plans for Oracle OpenWorld in San Francisco. Opening on September 22nd, this conference is so big and so busy that it actually spills over into the streets of the city. Enterprise database users from all over the world converge on this event and we’re thrilled to be […]

Let’s take a quick look at what happened in AWS-land last week: Monday, September 9 We announced that you can now Run SUSE Linux Enterprise Server on the AWS Free Usage Tier. Tuesday, September 10 I published an AWS Report interview with James Hirmas of JHC Technology. The AWS PHP Development Blog talked about Streaming […]