AWS News Blog

A few months ago, I wrote about AWS IoT Core (see AWS IoT – Cloud Services for Connected Devices) and talked about how we are working to make sure that AWS is well-equipped to support many different types of IoT devices and applications. At that time we launched AWS IoT Core in beta form and […]

Many of our customers have been asking us for data and tools to allow them to better understand and manage their AWS costs. New Reports Today we are introducing a set of new AWS Cost and Usage Reports that provide you with comprehensive data about products, pricing, and usage. The reports allow you to understand […]

My colleague Sivakanth Mundru wrote the guest post below in order to share news of some important new features for AWS CloudTrail. — Jeff; As many of you know AWS CloudTrail provides visibility into API activity in your AWS account and enables you to answer important questions such as which user made an API call […]

Amazon CloudFront helps you to get your content to your users at high speed with low latency. Today we are making CloudFront even better with the addition of support for Gzip compression. After you enable it for a particular CloudFront distribution, text and binary content will be compressed at the edge and returned in response […]

AWS Marketplace is an online store that helps you to find, buy, and immediately start using a very wide variety of applications on AWS (some of the more popular categories are Network Infrastructure, Security, and Big Data). Up until now, running an application from AWS Marketplace was essentially equivalent to launching a single, self-contained Amazon […]

You can use Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) to create a logically isolated section of the AWS Cloud. Within the VPC, you can define your desired IP address range, create subnets, configure route tables, and so forth. You can also use a virtual private gateway to connect the VPC to your existing on-premises network […]

Back when I was young, InfoWorld was a tabloid-sized journal that chronicled the growth of the PC industry. Every week I would await the newest issue and read it cover to cover, eager to learn all about the latest and greatest hardware and software. I always enjoyed and appreciated the reviews — they were unfailingly […]

The AWS Trusted Advisor helps you to provision and configure your AWS resources so as to improve system performance and reliability, increase security, and optimize for cost. We have added some new checks and improved an existing one in order to make Trusted Advisor even more useful to you. Here is a summary of the […]