AWS News Blog

While re:Invent 2019 may feel well over, I’m still feeling elated and curious about several of the launches that were announced that week. Is it just me, or did some of the new feature announcements seem to bring us closer to the Scifi worlds (i.e. AWS WaveLength anyone? and don’t get me started on Amazon […]

2/10/2025 update: ICD-10-CM link updated, as CDC’s website is being modified to comply with Donald Trump’s Executive Orders. Amazon Comprehend is a natural language processing (NLP) service that uses machine learning to find insights in unstructured text. It is very easy to use, with no machine learning experience required. You can customize Comprehend for your specific […]

With re:Invent 2019 behind me, I have a fairly light blogging load for the rest of the month. I do, however, have a collection of late-breaking news and links that I want to share while they are still hot out of the oven! AWS Online Tech Talks for December – We have 18 tech talks […]

Amazon customers often tell us that they want to know more about how we build and run our business. On the retail side, they tour Amazon Fulfillment Centers and see how we we organize our warehouses. Corporate customers often ask about our Leadership Principles, and sometimes adopt (and then adapt) them for their own use. […]

Here’s what we announced today: Amplify DataStore – This is a persistent, on-device storage repository that will help you to synchronize data across devices and to handle offline operations. It can be used as a standalone local datastore for web and mobile applications that have no connection to the cloud or an AWS account. When […]

The open source Amplify Framework is a command line tool and a library allowing web & mobile developers to easily provision and access cloud based services. For example, if I want to create a GraphQL API for my mobile application, I use amplify add api on my development machine to configure the backend API. After […]

Whew, what a day. This post contains a summary of the announcements that we made today. Launch Blog Posts Here are detailed blog posts for the launches: AWS Outposts Now Available – Order Your Racks Today! Inf1 Instances with AWS Inferentia Chips for High Performance Cost-Effective Inferencing. EBS Direct APIs – Programmatic Access to EBS […]

We launched AWS Step Functions at re:Invent 2016, and our customers took to the service right away, using them as a core element of their multi-step workflows. Today, we see customers building serverless workflows that orchestrate machine learning training, report generation, order processing, IT automation, and many other multi-step processes. These workflows can run for […]