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Tom Rizzo, A General Manager on the Amazon EC2 team, sent along today’s guest post. — Jinesh; Over the last few months we have released some powerful Windows enhancements to AWS including AWS Management Pack for Microsoft System Center and Guidance for Microsoft SQL Server AlwaysOn Availability Groups. Building on the popularity of our SQL […]

Planning for this year’s AWS re:Invent conference started just days after we returned home from Las Vegas last fall and now we’re ready to share them with you! AWS re:Invent will return to Las Vegas, running from November 12 to 15 at the Venetian Hotel and the adjoining Conference Center. We have pulled out all […]

Let’s take a quick look at what happened in AWS-land last week: Monday, July 8 We introduced Tags for Amazon RDS Resources and Resource-Level Permissions for EC2 and RDS Resources. Tuesday, July 9 We added Watermarking and Control of Bit and Frame Rates to the Amazon Elastic Transcoder. Wednesday, July 10 We reduced the prices […]

I have another triple dose of videos for you today. Continuing with our AWS Jobs video series, I interviewed an Amazon Recruiter, a Product Manager, and a TPM (Technical Program Manager). You can learn more about all of these jobs (and many others) on the AWS Careers page. We have open positions in North and […]

Let’s take a quick look at what happened in AWS-land last week: Monday, July 1 We launched the new Transaction Library for DynamoDB. We announced that Amazon RDS now supports version 5.6 of MySQL. The AWS PHP  Blog talks about the new AWS Service Provider for Laraval. Tuesday, July 2 We published a pair of […]

Today we are introducing a new client library that will reduce the development effort needed for you to perform atomic transactions that can encompass multiple DynamoDB items in one or more tables. This allows you to develop those applications more easily on DynamoDB that until now either required relational databases (with their attendant scalability issues) […]

Let’s take a quick look at what happened in AWS-land last week: Monday, June 24 We announced another European location for AWS Direct Connect. The AWS PHP blog revealed and explained the new Static Service Client Facades for the AWS SDK for PHP. Tuesday, June 25 Intel joined the AWS Marketplace with their Expressway API […]

Earlier this year we introduced a new DNS failover feature for Amazon Route 53. If you enable this feature and create one or more health checks, Route 53 will periodically run the checks and switch to a secondary address (possibly a static website hosted on Amazon S3) if several consecutive checks fail. Today we are […]