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We’re very excited to announce this year’s AWS Start-up Challenge VC judges: Accel Partners, Andreessen Horowitz (A16Z), Draper Fisher Jurvetson (DFJ), Madrona Venture Group,  NEA, and Sequoia ! Representatives from all these firms will be present at our final event in California, where our AWS executive team will meet and select one global, grand prize winner. All […]

The AWS team is growing by leaps and bounds. Existing teams are expanding, new teams are being formed, and we’re pushing into new territories. There are so many jobs that our official job site can be a bit difficult to navigate. To make it easier to find the job that is right for you, I […]

Last night I delivered the following presentation to the Seattle AWS User Group to review and summarize some of the additions we’ve made to AWS over the last couple of quarters: AWS Q3 2011 Update – Seattle AWS User Group View more presentations from Amazon Web Services The presentation went over quite well so I […]

We’ve added some additional flexibility to Amazon EC2’s Elastic Load Balancing feature: You can now terminate SSL sessions at the load balancer and then re-encrypt them before they are sent to the back-end EC2 instances. You can now configure the set of ciphers and SSL protocols accepted by the load balancer. You can now configure […]

Today we are introducing Amazon ElastiCache so that you can easily add caching logic to your application. You can now create Cache Clusters, each comprised of one or more Cache Nodes, in a matter of minutes. Each Cache Cluster is a distributed, in-memory cache that can be accessed using the popular Memcached protocol. What’s Caching? […]

  Over the summer months, we’d like to share a few stories from startups around the world: what are they working on and how they are using the cloud to get things done. Today, we’re profiling the last year’s winner of the AWS Start-up Challenge – M-Dot Network from Erie, PA! (M-Dot team, victorious at […]

 In the past 6 months we have launched several AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) features that have made it easier for our customers to control access to their AWS account. For example, weve launched support for IAM in the AWS Management Console, we’ve enabled users to log in to the AWS Management Console, and […]

I am pleased to announce that the 2011 AWS Start-Up Challenge is now On! If you are part of promising young start-up and you use (or plan to use) one or more of the Amazon Web Services, please read the Official Rules and consider submitting an entry. Expanded World Footprint Based on the feedback that […]