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Late last week the number of objects stored in Amazon S3 reached one trillion (1,000,000,000,000 or 1012). That’s 142 objects for every person on Planet Earth or 3.3 objects for every star in our Galaxy. If you could count one object per second it would take you 31,710 years to count them all. We knew […]

Today’s guest blogger is Anders Samuelsson, a Senior Product Manager on the AWS Identity and Access Management team. Anders has great news for anyone who makes calls to AWS APIs using code that runs on an EC2 instance. — Jeff; Today we are introducing AWS Identity and Access management (IAM) roles for EC2 instances, a […]

Linda Cureton, the CIO of NASA wrote a blog post to detail some of the IT reforms that are being put in to place to better serve NASA’s mission and the American people. NASA has been an advocate and user of cloud and shared services for the last couple of years. In her post (IT […]

Let’s take a quick look at what happened in AWS-land last week: Monday, June 4 We announced a lot of SAP news to get the week underway. I posted the latest episode of The AWS Report, featuring Rob Vandenburg, CEO of Lingotek. Tuesday, June 5 We took a look behind the scenes of the Amazon […]

I spent some time chatting with the Amazon CloudFront team to make sure that I knew what was going on. Here’s an update: More PoPs and More Growth Amazon CloudFront now has 32 global PoPs (Points of Presence) with the addition of second PoPs in Dallas and Paris (5/29).  The team has been quietly adding […]

Last week I interviewed Rob Vandenberg, CEO of Utah-based Lingotek. We have split the interview into two parts to make it easier to watch: Part 1 Part 2 Would you like to be a guest on a future episode of The AWS Report? Email us at awsreport@amazon.com . — Jeff;

Let’s take a quick look at what happened in AWS-land last week: Monday, May 28 We celebrated Memorial Day in the US! Tuesday, May 29 We enabled the use of Oracle Enterprise Manager (OEM) for Oracle DB Instances. Wednesday, May 30 We announced that version 0.8.1 of Hive is now available for Amazon Elastic MapReduce. Frank Munoz released […]

Let’s take a quick look at what happened in AWS-land last week: Monday, May 21 AWS customer Pinterest released an architecture update, reviewing their use of EC2 and S3 to scale up and scale down daily to cope with variable traffic, with hourly costs that range from $15 to $52 per hour. We released new Cloud Reference […]