AWS News Blog

There are now over 2,700 software products listed in AWS Marketplace. Tens of thousands of AWS customers routinely find, buy, and start using offerings from more than 925 Independent Software Vendors (ISVs). Today we are giving you, as a consumer of software through AWS Marketplace, the ability to selectively share your contact information (name, title, […]

Amazon CloudWatch is a monitoring service for your AWS resources and for the applications that you run on AWS. It collects and tracks metrics, monitors log files, and allows you to set alarms and respond to changes in your AWS resources. Today we are launching several important enhancements to CloudWatch: Extended Metrics Retention – CloudWatch […]

Another busy week in AWS-land! Today’s post included submissions from 21 internal and external contributors, along with material from my RSS feeds, my inbox, and other things that come my way. To join in the fun, create (or find) some awesome AWS-related content and submit a pull request! Monday October 24 We launched the AWS […]

September 8, 2021: Amazon Elasticsearch Service has been renamed to Amazon OpenSearch Service. See details. I’m pleased to share yet another month of hot startups, courtesy of Tina Barr! — Jeff; Check out this month’s AWS-powered startups: Optimizely – Providing web and mobile A/B testing for the world’s leading brands. Touch Surgery – Building technologies […]

Early this year I announced that Longer EC2 Resource IDs are Now Available, and kicked off the start of a transition period that will last until early December 2016. During the transition period, you can opt in to the new resource format on a region-by-region, user-by-user basis. At the conclusion of the transition period, all […]

I love to use the historical photo at right to emphasize a situation that many of our customers face. They need to move their existing IT infrastructure to the AWS Cloud without scheduling prolonged maintenance periods for data migration. Because many of these applications are mission-critical and are heavily data-driven, taking systems offline in order […]

My colleague Joe Baron wrote the guest post below to introduce you to a book that he and his colleagues have put together! — Jeff; Are you studying for the AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate exam? The new AWS Certified Solutions Architect Official Study Guide: Associate Exam has just been published by John Wiley […]

Wow, a lot is happening in AWS-land these days! Today’s post included submissions from several dozen internal and external contributors, along with material from my RSS feeds, my inbox, and other things that come my way. To join in the fun, create (or find) some awesome AWS-related content and submit a pull request! Monday October […]