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Our friends at Boostability have been using Amazon S3 to help their clients build websites hosted on Amazon S3. Boostability provides search engine optimization technology and fulfillment services to agencies, media companies and phone book providers. I recently chatted with Jared Turner, CTO for Boostability. He told me that they needed a solution that was […]

Millions of our customers have used the Amazon Appstore in the US to discover and buy Android applications for their phones and tablets. We have recently expanded distribution beyond the US  into the United Kingdom, Italy, France, Germany, and Spain. Continuing our international expansion, I’m pleased to announce that app developers can submit mobile apps […]

Our customers have found Amazon SES to be straightforward to use, powerful, and cost effective. They are making heavy use of it! Amazon Simple Email Service (Amazon SES) greatly simplifies the task of sending bulk or transactional emails. You can send the same email to millions of recipients within minutes. Or, you can send personalized […]

Let’s take a quick look at what happened in AWS-land last week: Monday, September 24 The good folks at Newvem published an article on Getting Started with AWS Direct Connect. Tuesday, September 25 NASDAQ OMX announced FinQloud, a cloud solution for the financial services industry. We introduced Provisioned IOPS for Amazon RDS. Wednesday, September 26 We announced that Amazon RDS now […]

One of the key advantages that customers and partners are telling us they really appreciate about AWS is its unique ability to cut down the time required to evaluate new software stacks.  These “solution appliances” can now be easily deployed on AWS and evaluated by customers in hours or days, rather than in weeks or […]

For today’s episode of The AWS Report, I spoke to Billy Cox, Director of Cloud Strategy for Intel. We discussed the genesis of cloud computing, some historical trends, and ways that Intel is optimizing their processors for cloud-style workloads. I really enjoyed speaking with Billy and I think you’ll be able to see this in […]

NASDAQ OMX‘s new FinQloud is a cloud solution designed to serve the needs of the regulated financial services industry. By building FinQloud on top of AWS, NASDAQ was able to create a protected environment for regulated data that meets very stringent security, reliability, and durability requirements. Financial services firms operate in a very complex global […]

Let’s take a quick look at what happened in AWS-land last week: Monday, September 17 We added four new checks to the AWS Trusted Advisor including EC2 Reserved Instance Optimization, VPN Tunnel Redundancy, RDS Backup, and RDS Multi-AZ. Tuesday, September 18 We introduced Auto Scaling termination policies to give you additonal control over the scale-down process. Friday, September 21 Developer Andy […]