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We announced the Simple Queue Service (SQS) eight years ago, give or take a day. Although this was our first infrastructure web service, we launched it with little fanfare and gave no hint that this was just the first of many such services on the drawing board. I’m sure that some people looked at it […]

I’m happy to be able to report that we have sold all of the available seats at AWS re:Invent! The halls here are ablaze with excitement and we’re all working 18 hours per day to bring you a conference that will be fun, informative, and memorable. We’ve lined up an amazing array of speakers and […]

In this episode of The AWS Report, I spoke with Scott Montgomery, Global Director of Strategy for Trend Micro to learn more about their cloud offerings and strategy. We talked about the transition from security for desktops and servers to security in virtualized environments, and from there up to the cloud. As malware continued to […]

One of the key differentiators of the AWS cloud is its flexibility. It allows you to not only choose the programming models, languages, operating systems but also deploy enterprise-grade packaged applications that have been already battle-tested by the industry. You can run the business applications that you already know how to use and developers and […]

Let’s take a quick look at what happened in AWS-land last week: Monday, October 29 The AWS Storage Gateway is now generally available, and it now supports gateway-cached volumes. Wednesday, October 31 We made some important changes to the AWS Global Start-Up Challenge. We released the Cloud TCO Cost Comparison Calculator for Web Applications. Thursday, November 1 […]

I’m happy to announce a number of improvements to Amazon DynamoDB – Consistent BatchGet, Simultaneous Control Plane Operations, and more flexible updating of provisioned throughput. Let’s take a look at each improvement. Consistent BatchGetDynamoDB’s BatchGet operation has been extended so that it now supports strongly consistent reads in addition to eventually consistent reads. Using the […]

I have some important news to share with you regarding this years AWS Global Start-Up Challenge! New Contest Close Date December 5, 2012 We are extending the close date of the contest to Wednesday December 5, 2012, instead of Friday November 9, 2012. We hope this will give you more time to complete your application […]

I have been having discussions related to the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) of running workloads in the cloud as it compares to running them on-premises. One consistent conclusion is that weighing the financial considerations of owning and operating a data center or co-located facility versus employing a cloud infrastructure or a cloud service requires […]