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Let’s take a quick look at what happened in AWS-land last week: Monday, February 11 You can now Create a Backup Website Using Route 53 DNS Failover and S3 Website Hosting. Tuesday, February 12 A new post on the AWS Java Blog shows you how to Manage Multiple Accounts with the AWS Toolkit for Eclipse. […]

Route 53‘s new DNS Failover feature gives you the power to monitor your website and automatically route your visitors to a backup site if it goes down. In today’s guest post, Product Manager Sean Meckley shows you how to use this powerful new feature on a fictitious website. — Jeff; DNS Failover pairs up well […]

Let’s take a quick look at what happened in AWS-land last week: Monday, February 4 I published a new episode of The AWS Report featuring Russ Dietz of SafeNet. The Relational Database Service now supports Event Subscriptions. Tuesday, February 5 The AWS Java Blog published an article on the topic of Working With AWS CloudFormation […]

Last summer, I introduced cost allocation reports and tagging, a new system that allows you to organize and track your AWS resources and their associated cost. I also mentioned that well incrementally make this feature bigger and better over time. Today, Im glad to announce that AWS CloudFormation has added support for tagging Amazon S3 […]

I’m pleased to announce that AWS has been certified to host the SAP Business Suite environment (generally known as a “landscape”) in full production mode. This includes the following products: SAP Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) SAP Customer Relationship Management (CRM) SAP Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) SAP Supply Chain Management (SCM) SAP Supplier Relationship Management (SRM) […]

In the latest episode of The AWS Report, I spoke with Russ Dietz of SafeNet to learn more about their security products for AWS: SafeNet’s data protection and security products run on AWS and offer a number of unique features including encryption of Amazon Machine Images and EBS Volumes. — Jeff; Modified 3/12/2021 – In […]

Let’s take a quick look at what happened in AWS-land last week: Monday, January 28 We introduced the Amazon Elastic Transcoder. The AWS Java Blog published an article on Subscribing Queues to Topics. The AWS Ruby Blog published part four of an article on IAM Roles for EC2 Instances, focusing on credential management. Tuesday, January […]

In the latest episode of The AWS Report, I spoke with Jim Young of Esri to learn more about their mapping product and how they run on AWS: I learned that Esri is a 40-year old mapping company that has moved its products from the mainframe to client server to the desktop and now to […]