AWS News Blog

New – SaaS Contract Upgrades and Renewals for AWS Marketplace

AWS Marketplace currently contains over 7,500 listings from 1,500 independent software vendors (ISVs). You can browse the digital catalog to find, test, buy, and deploy software that runs on AWS: Each ISV sets the pricing model and prices for their software. There are a variety of options available, including free trials, hourly or usage-based pricing, […]

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Single Sign-On between Okta Universal Directory and AWS

Update (May 2023) – Updated the final CLI example. Enterprises adopting the AWS Cloud want to effectively manage identities. Having one central place to manage identities makes it easier to enforce policies, to manage access permissions, and to reduce the overhead by removing the need to duplicate users and user permissions across multiple identity silos. […]

New – AWS Amplify Libraries for Android and iOS

When you develop mobile applications, you must develop a set of cloud-powered functionalities for each project. For example, most applications require user authentication or detailed in-app analytics. Your application most probably calls REST or GraphQL APIs and is required to support offline scenarios and data synchronization. AWS Amplify makes it easy to integrate such functionalities […]

Introducing the latest AWS Heroes – May, 2020

Communities are now more important than ever. Members of local communities look to their leaders to provide guidance and mentorship on how to build AWS skills, solve technical problems, and grow their careers. Traditionally this AWS knowledge and community support is shared in many ways including via social media, blogs, open source projects, or by […]

Adventures in Scaling in Changing Times

I don’t know about you, but the last two months have been kind of crazy for me due to the spread of COVID-19. In the middle of a trans-Nordics trip in early March that took me to Denmark, Finland, and Sweden in the course of a week, Amazon asked me and my coworkers to work […]

New – Enhanced Amazon Macie Now Available with Substantially Reduced Pricing

Amazon Macie is a fully managed service that helps you discover and protect your sensitive data, using machine learning to automatically spot and classify data for you. Over time, Macie customers told us what they like, and what they didn’t. The service team has worked hard to address this feedback, and today I am very happy […]