AWS News Blog

Data Compression Improvements in Amazon Redshift Bring Compression Ratios Up to 4x

Maor Kleider, Senior Product Manager with Amazon Redshift, wrote today’s guest post. -Ana Amazon Redshift, is a fast, fully managed, petabyte-scale data warehousing service that makes it simple and cost-effective to analyze all of your data. Many of our customers, including Scholastic, King.com, Electronic Arts, TripAdvisor and Yelp, migrated to Amazon Redshift and achieved agility […]

Coming in 2018 – New AWS Region in Sweden

Last year we launched new AWS Regions in Canada, India, Korea, the UK (London), and the United States (Ohio), and announced that new regions are coming to France (Paris) and China (Ningxia). Today, I am happy to be able to tell you that we are planning to open up an AWS Region in Stockholm, Sweden […]

AWS Hot Startups – March 2017

As the madness of March rounds up, take a break from all the basketball and check out the cool startups Tina Barr brings you for this month! -Ana The arrival of spring brings five new startups this month: Amino Apps – providing social networks for hundreds of thousands of communities. Appboy – empowering brands to […]

New – AWS Resource Tagging API

September 8, 2021: Amazon Elasticsearch Service has been renamed to Amazon OpenSearch Service. See details. AWS customers frequently use tags to organize their Amazon EC2 instances, Amazon EBS volumes, Amazon S3 buckets, and other resources. Over the past couple of years we have been working to make tagging more useful and more powerful. For example, […]

Amazon CloudWatch launches Alarms on Dashboards

September 8, 2021: Amazon Elasticsearch Service has been renamed to Amazon OpenSearch Service. See details. Amazon CloudWatch is a service that gives customers the ability to monitor their applications, systems, and solutions running on Amazon Web Services by providing and collecting metrics, logs, and events about AWS resources in real time. CloudWatch automatically provides key […]