AWS News Blog
Attending RSA in San Francisco? Visit the AWS Pop-up Loft for Security Talks!
Many of my colleagues will be heading to San Francisco next week for the RSA conference. In order to make your time in San Francisco even more worthwhile, you may want to consider attending some security sessions at the AWS Pop-up Loft on Market Street (a short walk from Moscone Center). The talks (from our […]
AWS Week in Review – February 15, 2016
April 30, 2018: We’ve discontinued Amazon Mobile Analytics. Amazon Pinpoint now provides the analytics features that Amazon Mobile Analytics previously offered. If you’re new to Mobile Analytics, you can [integrate the mobile analytics features of Amazon Pinpoint into your app]. If you currently use Amazon Mobile Analytics, you can [migrate to Amazon Pinpoint]. […]
Amazon RDS Update – Support for MySQL 5.7
You can now launch Amazon RDS database instances that run MySQL 5.7 . This release of MySQL offers a number of performance, scalability, and security enhancements. Here are some of the most important and relevant ones: Native support for JSON data and a set of built-in JSON functions (JSON_ARRAY, JSON_OBJECT, JSON_QUOTE, JSON_CONTAINS, JSON_CONTAINS_PATH, JSON_EXTRACT, JSON_KEYS, […]
Announcing the AWS Pop-Up Loft in Tel Aviv
The AWS Pop-up Lofts in San Francisco and New York have become hubs and working spaces for developers, entrepreneurs, students, and others who are interested in working with and learning more about AWS. They come to learn, code, meet, collaborate, ask questions, and to hang out with other like-minded folks. I am happy to announce […]
New – Notifications for AWS CodeDeploy Events
AWS CodeDeploy is a service that helps you to deploy your code to a fleet of EC2 or on-premises instances while taking care to leave as much of the fleet online as possible. CodeDeploy was designed to work with fleets that range in size from a single instance all the way up to thousands of […]
US Veterans Now Eligible For AWS Certification Exam Reimbursement
Service members returning from active duty can face many challenges—including finding a new job or even a new career. To help veterans succeed, we’ve worked with the Department of Veterans Affairs to make AWS Certification exams eligible for VA reimbursement under the GI Bill’s education provision. About AWS Certifications AWS Certifications recognize IT professionals with […]
Migrating to Amazon Aurora: The View from the Other Side
Today I have a new guest post, this one written by AWS customer Safe Software. They were an early adopter of Amazon Aurora and have a great story to tell. — Jeff; Being in the business of moving data, Safe Software is always working to support leading edge database technology. This focus naturally led us […]
Amazon EMR Update – Support for EBS Volumes, and M4 & C4 Instance Types
My colleague Abhishek Sinha wrote the guest post below to tell you about the latest additions to Amazon EMR. — Jeff; Amazon EMR is a service that allows you to use distributed data processing frameworks such as Apache Hadoop, Apache Spark and Presto to process data on a managed cluster of EC2 instances. Newer versions […]