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We received close to 2,500 applications for the 2012 AWS Start-Up Challenge! Applications arrived from every state in the US and from 84 other countries including Iceland, Ghana, Bahrain, Nepal, Cambodia, and Malawi. Our suite of judges have chosen the following 24 semi-finalists: Big Data & High Performance Computing Automated Insights (USA) Demyst Data (Hong […]

Due to the holidays, today’s report covers the past two weeks! Monday,  December 17 You can now copy an EBS Snapshot between AWS Regions. Tuesday, December 18 We added an Analytics Dashboard and real-time comparison of rank expressions to Amazon CloudSearch. We added environment resource support and an updated PHP runtime to Elastic Beanstalk. Thursday, […]

As you may already know,  you can host your static website on Amazon S3, giving you the ability to sustain any conceivable level of traffic, at a very modest cost, without the need to set up, monitor, scale, or manage any web servers. With static hosting, you pay only for the storage and bandwidth that […]

AWS CloudFormation gives you the power to launch an entire stack of AWS resources using a declarative template. The templates are JSON-formatted text files that define all of the necessary resources, their attributes, and the relationships between them. Today we are introducing a new CloudFormation editor to make it even easier for you to create […]

Let’s take a quick look at what happened in AWS-land last week: Monday, December 10 We announced the results of the first EC2 Spotathon. Congratulations to the winners! Wednesday, December 12 We added a number of new customer case studies: BioSense 2.0 from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, MPS Technologies (creation and […]

At AWS we place a high value on the “Voice of the Customer.” We do our best to listen and to learn, and to make sure that our plans line up with what we are hearing. We’ve had a number of requests for better access to more detailed billing data. We took the first step […]

Let’s take a quick look at what happened in AWS-land last week: Monday, December 3 We announced that Amazon DynamoDB is now avaiable in the AWS GovCloud (US). Tuesday, December 4 We announced that there are now Windows products in the AWS Marketplace. We introduced the AWS SDK for Node.js. Wednesday, December 5 We introduced […]

Last week at the AWS re:Invent conference, we announced the results of the first-ever Amazon EC2 Spotathon. Stephen Elliott, Senior Product Manager on the Amazon EC2 team, provided us with a very informative guest post with a full recap of the proceedings. — Jeff; We set up the Spotathon to publicly recognize some of the […]