AWS News Blog
AWS X-Ray Update – General Availability, Including Lambda Integration
I first told you about AWS X-Ray at AWS re:Invent in my post, AWS X-Ray – See Inside Your Distributed Application. X-Ray allows you to trace requests made to your application as execution traverses Amazon EC2 instances, Amazon ECS containers, microservices, AWS database services, and AWS messaging services. It is designed for development and production […]
EC2 F1 Instances with FPGAs – Now Generally Available
We launched the Developer Preview of the FPGA-equipped F1 instances at AWS re:Invent. The response to the announcement was quick and overwhelming! We received over 2000 requests for entry, and were able to provide over 200 developers with access to the Hardware Development Kit (HDK) and the actual F1 instances. In the post that I […]
New- Introducing AWS CodeStar – Quickly Develop, Build, and Deploy Applications on AWS
It wasn’t too long ago that I was on a development team working toward completing a software project by a release deadline and facing the challenges most software teams face today in developing applications. Challenges such as new project environment setup, team member collaboration, and the day-to-day task of keeping track of the moving pieces […]
Launch: Amazon Athena adds support for Querying Encrypted Data
In November of last year, we brought a service to the market that we hoped would be a major step toward helping those who have the need to securely access and examine massive amounts of data on a daily basis. This service is none other than Amazon Athena which I think of as a managed […]
New – AWS Management Tools Blog
The AWS Blog collection has grown over the past couple of years. As you can see from the list on the right, we now have blogs that cover a wide variety of topics and development tools. We also have blogs that are designed for those of you who read languages other than English! The AWS […]
Pollexy – Building a Special Needs Voice Assistant with Amazon Polly and Raspberry Pi
2/10/2025 update: CDC link updated in this post, as CDC’s website is being modified to comply with Donald Trump’s Executive Orders. April is Autism Awareness month and about 1 in 68 children in the U.S. have been identified with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) (CDC 2014). In this post from Troy Larson, a Sr. Devops Cloud […]
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 […]
New – Host-Based Routing Support for AWS Application Load Balancers
Last year I told you about the new AWS Application Load Balancer (an important part of Elastic Load Balancing) and showed you how to set it up to route incoming HTTP and HTTPS traffic based on the path element of the URL in the request. This path-based routing allows you to route requests to, for […]