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Calling all Game Developers! GDC 2017 was a blast in San Francisco a couple of weeks ago, so there is no better time to be inspired and passionate about learning and building cool games. Therefore, I am excited to share that Amazon GameLift is now available for all C++ and C# game engines, including Amazon […]

As I have told you in the past, we like to drink our own Champagne at Amazon. Practically speaking, this means that we make use of our own services, tools, and applications as part of our jobs, and that we supply the development teams with feedback if we have an idea for an improvement or […]

September 8, 2021: Amazon Elasticsearch Service has been renamed to Amazon OpenSearch Service. See details. The Amazon Elasticsearch Service is a fully managed service that provides easier deployment, operation, and scale for the Elasticsearch open-source search and analytics engine. We are excited to announce that Amazon Elasticsearch Service now supports Elasticsearch 5.1 and Kibana 5.1. […]

Here to tell you about using Automation to streamline AMI maintenance and patching is Taylor Anderson, a Senior Product Manager with EC2. -Ana   Last December at re:Invent, we launched Amazon EC2 Systems Manager, which helps you automatically collect software inventory, apply OS patches, create system images, and configure Windows and Linux operating systems. These […]

Reserved Instances allow AWS customers to receive a significant discount on their EC2 usage (up to 75% when compared to On-Demand pricing), along with capacity reservation when the RIs are purchased for use in a specific Availability Zone (AZ). Late last year we made Reserved Instances more flexible with the launch of Regional RIs that […]

September 8, 2021: Amazon Elasticsearch Service has been renamed to Amazon OpenSearch Service. See details. Unbelievably it is March already, as you enter into the madness of March don’t forget to take some time and learning more about the latest service innovations from AWS. Each month, we have a series of webinars targeting best practices […]

This edition includes all of our announcements, content from all of our blogs, and as much community-generated AWS content as I had time for! Monday March 6 We announced the AWS Health Tools Repository. We announced that you can now Send High-Volume SMS Messages from Dedicated Short Codes. We announced that Amazon Elastic File System […]

Jordin Green is our guest writer today, with an inside view from the floor of HIMSS17. -Ana Empathy. It’s not always a word you hear associated with technology but one might argue it should be a central tenet for the application of technology in healthcare, and I was reminded of that fact as I wandered […]