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One thing that I love (among many) about working at Amazon.com is the customer-driven innovation cycle. We introduce a new product or service with a useful yet somewhat minimal feature set. We do this to get it out into the real world as soon as possible so that our customers can start to use it […]

We’re starting to wire various AWS services to each other, with interesting and powerful results. Today I’d like to talk to you about a brand new connection between Amazon S3 and the Amazon Simple Notification Service. When I introduced you to SNS earlier this year I noted that “SNS is also integrated with other AWS […]

The AWS Management Console now supports Amazon S3’s Reduced Redundancy Storage. You can view and change the storage class of an S3 object in the object’s Properties pane: You can also select multiple objects and change the storage class for all of them at the same time. Finally, you can set the option when you […]

The Casual Connect Conference will be held in Seattle later this month. The conference will start on July 20th and will end on the 22nd. We’ve got some big plans for this conference: The AWS team will have a booth on the show floor. Be sure to stop by and to say hello. We’ll have […]

The AWS Marketing Team recently moved into a shiny new building in Seattle’s South Lake Union area. We’d like to spiff up and personalize our space, and thought that our AWS users and fans could help us to do so! We’ve got some really nice AWS stickers that we can trade for any or all […]

Update August 22, 2011: We are aware of the existence of a tool that scans S3 looking for buckets that allow anonymous users READ permission. Bucket level READ permissions only allow an user to list the objects within a bucket. However, users with the ability to list could probe into the bucket looking for unprotected […]

AWS is not only a rich platform to build products and solutions but also a platform to build specialized platforms. The inherent flexibility of the AWS cloud enables businesses to use it as a platform in a variety of different ways. Some of these platforms are highlighted in my blog post titled The Cloud as a […]

Since the launch of the Amazon Web Services platform in 2006, many companies have decided to offer solutions on top of it. We collect a list of these solution providers, being them System Integrators (SI) or Independent Software Vendors (ISV), on our main AWS website. These Solution Providers offer a vast range of solution for […]