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We added support for Amazon, Facebook, and Google identity federation to AWS IAM earlier this year. This poweful and important feature gives you the ability to grant temporary security credentials to users managed outside of AWS. In order to help you to learn more about how this feature works and to make it easier for […]

The University of Washington Department of Professional and Continuing Education is offering a three-quarter Cloud Application Development on AWS certificate program. If you are in the Seattle area you can take this course in a classroom. If not, you can take it online. I have been a member of the advisory group that developed this […]

Let’s take a quick look at what happened in AWS-land last week: Monday, July 29 The AWS Security Blog published an article to show you how to Improve the Security of your AWS Account in Less Than 5 Minutes. Tuesday, July 30 We annouced that Elastic Load Balancing now supports the Proxy Protocol. Wednesday, July […]

Let’s take a quick look at what happened in AWS-land last week: Monday, July 22 We added a number of new AWS case studies including Genome Medicine Institute, Hailo,  Rover.com, and The Schumacher Group. The AWS Security Blog talked about Controlling Network Access to EC2 Instances Using a Bastion Host. Tuesday, July 23 Building on […]

During my recent trip to Southeast Asia, several people asked me if we had plans to bring Amazon CloudFront and Route 53 to India. I responded as I always do — that we continue to invest and to expand, that we listen to our users, and that we make use of traffic and usage trends […]

Many academic and scientific conferences include a poster session. What’s That?Researchers describe their research and their results on an informative poster which they bring to the conference, where it is set up for display. The researchers stand by their posters to answer questions about the work and to discuss it with the attendees. Posters sessions […]

My colleague Joe Ziegler wrote the report below to recap and summarize the recent Cloud Kata event that we held in conjunction with the AWS Summit in Singapore. — Jeff; Summary AWS held the first Cloud Kata for Startups event in Singapore at the Marina Bay Sands on July 17th, bringing together over 800 entrepreneurs, […]

Let’s take a quick look at what happened in AWS-land last week: Monday, July 15 We released the Choosing a Cloud Platform page. This happened a few weeks ago but I forgot to mention it. Tuesday, July 16 The AWS Security Blog published part 3 of a series on securing access to AWS using MFA. […]