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Let’s take a quick look at what happened in AWS-land last week: Wednesday, April 17 We announced IAM Roles for AWS Elastic Beanstalk. The AWS Ruby Blog discussed Locking Dependency Versions with Bundler. Thursday, April 18 We announced that Amazon S3 now stores 2 trillion objects and handles 1.1 million requests per second. We announced […]

The Amazon Partner Network (APN) focuses on helping our partners to build successful AWS-powered businesses by providing them with strong technical, sales, marketing, and go-to-market support. Today we are taking a step forward with the introduction of new training, accreditation, and competencies for APN members. Let’s take a look at each one. Training and AccreditationAs […]

You can now create local secondary indexes for Amazon DynamoDB tables. These indexes provide give you the power to query your tables in new ways, and can also increase retrieval efficiency. What’s a Local Secondary Index?The local secondary index model builds on DynamoDB’s existing key model. Up until today you would have to select one […]

Last June I blogged about the first trillion objects stored in Amazon S3. On the first day of re:Invent I updated that number to 1.3 trillion. It is time for another update! I’m pleased to announce that there are now more than 2 trillion (2 x 1012) objects stored in Amazon S3 and that the […]

What’s an IAM Role? An AWS IAM (Identity and Access Management) role allows an application running on Amazon EC2 or AWS Elastic Beanstalk to act on your behalf. A role must be assumed by an entity (the instance or the application) and is used to create a set of temporary AWS security credentials that will […]

Let’s take a quick look at what happened in AWS-land last week: Monday, April 8 We announced that AWS Elastic Beanstalk for .NET now Supports VPC, RDS, and Configuration Files. AWS Marketplace and Citrix started a promotion for NetScaler VPX Platinum Edition. You can get a $175 EC2 credit if you start a subscription between […]

We launched Amazon CloudSearch just about a year ago today. In the year since we’ve launched, we’ve seen great customer adoption across a number of market segments for a wide variety of use cases. CloudSearch in ActionHere are just a few of the ways that you can use CloudSearch online: Search for a recent article […]

Let’s take a quick look at what happened in AWS-land last week: Monday, April 1 To celebrate April Fool’s Day, we released PC2 – the Punched Card Cloud. Tuesday, April 2 We announced that Amazon Redshift and the the EC2 High Storage Instances are now available in the US West (Oregon) Region. The AWS Ruby […]