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We held the Grand Finale of the 2012 AWS Start-Up Challenge at the Dogpatch WineWorks in San Francisco. Each of the twelve finalists presented their AWS-powered start-up to a capacity crowd and then anxiously awaited word from the judges. AWS Senior Vice President Andy Jassy announced the winners as follows: Big Data and High Performance […]

Let’s take a quick look at what happened in AWS-land last week: Monday, January 21 We introduced the High Memory Cluster Eight Extra Large Instance type. The AWS Ruby blog posted part 3 of an article on AWS Credential Providers. Wednesday, January 23 The AWS Mobile Blog posted part 3 of an article on using […]

In the latest episode of The AWS Report, I spoke with Michelle Munson of Aspera to learn more about their high-speed file transfer products: — Jeff;

Let’s take a quick look at what happened in AWS-land last week: Monday, January 14 I published a new episode of The AWS Report featuring Lisa Green of Common Crawl. The AWS Java Blog published the AWS Meme Generator sample app. Tuesday,  January 15 We introduced endpoint renaming for Amazon RDS. Wednesday, January 16 We […]

In the latest episode of The AWS Report, I spoke with Lisa Green of Common Crawl to learn more about what they do and how they use AWS: The Common Crawl data is available in the form of an AWS Public Data Set. If you are planning to process this large (81 TB) data set, […]

Let’s take a quick look at what happened in AWS-land last week: Monday, January 7 You can now use Amazon CloudWatch actions to stop or terminate an EC2 instance when an alarm is triggered. Wednesday, January 9 We announced that Amazon SNS now supports payloads up to 64KB. Thursday, January 10 We announced the finalists […]

I announced the 24 semi-finalists of the AWS Start-Up Challenge last week. Today I am pleased to announce that we’ve chosen the following 12 finalists: Big Data & High Performance Computing Demyst Data (Hong Kong) – Real-time analysis of consumer and small business profiles to improve decision making. Mortar Data (USA) – Open source framework […]

Let’s take a quick look at what happened in AWS-land last week: Tuesday, January 1 We posted page full of additional resources for AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM). Wednesday, January 2 We launched the ElastiCache Auto Discovery client for PHP. Friday, January 4 We announced AWS Management Console improvements, including tablet and mobile support. […]