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GameStop – Moving a Mission-Critical Multichannel Marketing Platform to AWS

GameStop sells new and pre-owned video game hardware, software, and accessories, consumer electronics, and wireless services. With over 7,000 retail locations spread across 14 countries, the company sells to and interacts with millions of customers every day. In addition to their retail locations, they follow an omni-channel strategy and run a loyalty program with over […]

Amazon Aurora Update – Create Cluster from MySQL Backup

After potential AWS customers see the benefits of moving to the cloud, they often ask about the best way to migrate their applications and their data, including large amounts of structured information stored in relational databases. Today we are launching an important new feature for Amazon Aurora. If you are already making use of MySQL, […]

New AWS Training Bootcamps to Help You Build Technical Skills

September 8, 2021: Amazon Elasticsearch Service has been renamed to Amazon OpenSearch Service. See details. My colleague Janna Pellegrino shared the guest post below to introduce you to a new set of AWS training bootcamps! — Jeff; We’ve made four of our most popular Technical Bootcamps from AWS re:Invent and Summits part of our broader […]

Scale Your Security Vulnerability Testing with Amazon Inspector

My colleague Eric Fitzgerald wrote the guest post below in order to show you how to use an AWS Lambda function to forward Amazon Inspector findings to your ticketing and workflow systems. — Jeff; At AWS Re:Invent 2015 we announced Amazon Inspector, our security vulnerability assessment service that helps customers test for security vulnerabilities early […]

AWS Marketplace Update – Support for ISVs Based in the EU

AWS Marketplace allows AWS customers to find, buy, and immediately start using cloud-based applications developed by Independent Software Vendors (ISVs).  AWS customers collectively rack up 205 million hours per month of AWS Marketplace usage as they make use of over 2,700 offerings from over 925 ISVs. Support for EU-Based ISVs ISVs based in the European […]

Hot Startups on AWS – June 2016 – Shaadi.com, Capillary, Mondo

Continuing with our focus on hot AWS-powered startups (March and April), I would like to tell you about three more this month: Shaadi.com – Helping South Asians to find a companion for life. Capillary – Boosting customer engagement for e-commerce. Mondo – A mobile-first bank. Shaadi.com Anupam Mittal, founder of Shaadi.com,  was exasperated by the […]

NOvA uses AWS to Shed Light on Neutrino Mysteries

My colleague Sanjay Padhi wrote the guest post below in order to tell the story of how AWS powered an important scientific discovery. — Jeff; Ghostlike particles called neutrinos are everywhere, cosmic rays bombard us with them, the sun bathes us in them. Though incredibly difficult to detect, they may hold the key to why […]

EC2 Run Command Update – Hybrid and Cross-Cloud Management

We launched EC2 Run Command late last year (read my post, New EC2 Run Command – Remote Instance Management at Scale to learn more). This feature was designed to allow developers, system administrators, and other IT professionals to easily and efficiently manage multiple EC2 instances running Windows or Linux. As I explained in my original […]