AWS News Blog

Over the summer months, we’d like to share a few stories from startups around the world: what are they working on and how they are using the cloud to get things done. Today, we’re profiling Classle, from Chennai, India! I recently read Mark Susters blog on Avoiding Monoculture – which is why Im happy to share with […]

We are hosting an AWS Media and Entertainment Summit at the Sofitel hotel in Los Angeles in early October.This half-day event will give you the information that you need to use AWS on your own cloud computing projects. We’ve put together an action-packed agenda to make the best possible use of your time: The event […]

We’re very excited to announce this year’s AWS Start-up Challenge VC judges: Accel Partners, Andreessen Horowitz (A16Z), Draper Fisher Jurvetson (DFJ), Madrona Venture Group,  NEA, and Sequoia ! Representatives from all these firms will be present at our final event in California, where our AWS executive team will meet and select one global, grand prize winner. All […]

Here’s what we are doing this month in AWS-land: Webinars: September 7 – Introducing AWS GovCloud (US) – 1:00 PM EST September 13 – Microsoft License Mobility for Windows Server Applications on the AWS Cloud – 9:00 AM PST September 20 – Provide a details of EC2 & EBS – 5:00 PM September 27 – […]

If you are the kind of developer who likes to live in your IDE, you’ll really appreciate the new AWS Toolkit for Visual Studio. We’ve provided you with enough power and control to allow you to develop, test, deploy, and maintain your applications without leaving Visual Studio. The toolkit is a small (3.5 MB) download […]

We introduced AWS Direct Connect last month and invited AWS users with a need for a dedicated network connection to the US East (Northern Virginia) Region to give it a try. The service is geared for those who have big data transfer requirements or are looking for more consistent network performance when accessing the cloud. […]

I will be keynoting an Amazon Technology Open House at our South Lake Union offices on October 4, 2011. You’ll have the opportunity to meet and to hang out with the leaders of the various AWS services, learn about recent engineering innovations at Amazon, and to win one of two Kindles that we’ll be giving […]

We have updated the AWS SDK for iOS and the AWS SDK for Android to make it easier for you to build applications that need to make calls to AWS using your AWS credentials. Until now, your AWS credentials would have to be stored on the device. If your credentials are embedded in a mobile […]

Do you have an idea for a cool and powerful Android application that can make use of one or more AWS services (preferably using the AWS SDK for Android)? If so, now is the time to design and code the application and submit it to the Amazon Appstore via the Appstore Developer Program. All valid […]

The AWS team is growing by leaps and bounds. Existing teams are expanding, new teams are being formed, and we’re pushing into new territories. There are so many jobs that our official job site can be a bit difficult to navigate. To make it easier to find the job that is right for you, I […]