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Would you like to be able to write and test code that uses the Amazon DynamoDB API even if you have no network connection and without incurring any usage charges (AWS Free Usage Tier notwithstanding)? If so, you are going to love our new DynamoDB Local test tool. DynamoDB Local is a client-side database that […]

In the latest episode of The AWS Report, I spoke with Karl van Den Bergh of Jaspersoft to learn more about what it means to be a commercial provider of open source business intelligence software. We discussed their business model, integration with Amazon Redshift, use of the AWS Marketplace (here’s their listing), how to get […]

In the latest episode of The AWS Report, I spoke with James Hirmas of JHC Technology to learn how they are moving government, commercial, and non-profit organizations to the AWS Cloud. James talked about the challenges that they face as they do so, and outlined their CORE solution. He also described their methodology for extracting […]

Let’s take a quick look at what happened in AWS-land last week: Monday, September 2 This was a US holiday and nothing of note happened in AWS-land. Tuesday, September 3 We launched the New AWS Command Line Interface. The AWS .NET Developer Blog discussed the EC2Metadata utility. Wednesday, September 4 We announced that Amazon ElastiCache […]

We launched Amazon ElastiCache about two years ago, and have steadily added features ever since. In the last two years we have added auto discovery, additional cache node types, and reserved cache nodes. We’ve reduced prices several times and we have added support for additional AWS Regions and VPC. Today we are taking a big […]

Let’s take a quick look at what happened in AWS-land last week: Monday, August 26 The AWS Security Blog published a post to help answer the question Where’s My Secret Access Key? Tuesday, August 27 The AWS Ruby Development Blog announced a new Gem that allows you to use DynamoDB as a Session Store for […]

In the latest episode of The AWS Report, I spoke with Darren Platt of Symplified to learn more about identity, identity management & federation, the history of SAML, and how it relates to the cloud. In a very entertaining segment, co-host Lee Zen hits the street to learn more about OAuth. If you can take […]

Let’s take a quick look at what happened in AWS-land last week: Monday, August 19 The AWS Security Blog announced that the 2013 PCI Compliance Package is Now Available. Tuesday, August 20 We announced that you now have Additional IP Address Flexibility in the Virtual Private Cloud. Wednesday, August 21 The AWS Java Development Blog […]