AWS News Blog

We launched the AWS Region in Frankfurt in the fall of 2014 and opened the AWS Marketplace for the Region the next year. Our customers in Germany come in all shapes and sizes: startups, mid-market, enterprise, and public sector. These customers have made great use of the new Region, building and running applications and businesses […]

Today we’re announcing general availability of AWS Lambda support for AWS X-Ray. As you may already know from Jeff’s GA POST, X-Ray is an AWS service for analyzing the execution and performance behavior of distributed applications. Traditional debugging methods don’t work so well for microservice based applications, in which there are multiple, independent components running […]

Several times each month, I speak to AWS customers at our Executive Briefing Center in Seattle. I describe our innovation process and talk about how the roadmap for each AWS offering is driven by customer requests and feedback. A good example of this is our work to make AWS a great home for SAP’s portfolio […]

Twitch is one of the leading community streaming video platforms today for developers, gamers, and the artists. Each day, millions visit Twitch to watch and discuss their passions by joining live sessions with other passionate online streamers. Amazon Web Services has joined the fun by adding the AWS Twitch Channel this past November to bring […]

Spring has officially sprung. As you enjoy the blossoming of May flowers, it may be worthy to also note some of the great tech talks blossoming online during the month of May. This month’s AWS Online Tech Talks features sessions on topics like AI, DevOps, Data, and Serverless just to name a few. May 2017 […]

Update (April 2019) – USAspending.gov has deprecated access to RDS Snapshots of their database. For information on how to access spending data from the US federal government, please visit USAspending.gov. They also provide instructions on how to download their database as a PostgreSQL archive. My colleague Jed Sundwall runs the AWS Public Datasets program. He wrote […]

Spring is in the air, new technologies are budding, and the community is buzzing. Which means it’s also springtime in the city by the bay and AWS is thrilled to announce an exciting event, AWS Community Day. AWS Community Day is a community-led event in San Francisco where AWS Community Heroes, user group leaders, and […]

I first told you about Amazon Chime this past February (Amazon Chime – Unified Communications Service) and told you how I connect and collaborate with people all over the world. Since the launch, Amazon Chime has quickly become the communication tool of choice within the AWS team. I participate in multiple person-to-person and group chats […]