AWS News Blog
New Metrics for EC2 Container Service: Clusters & Services
The Amazon EC2 Container Service helps you to build, run, and scale Docker-based applications. As I noted in an earlier post (EC2 Container Service – Latest Features, Customer Successes, and More), you will benefit from easy cluster management, high performance, flexible scheduling, extensibility, portability, and AWS integration while running in an AWS-powered environment that is […]
New Logstash Plugin – Search DynamoDB Content using Elasticsearch
When I take a look at our recent service releases and combine it with some of the AWS-related repos on GitHub, an interesting trend becomes apparent. It seems to me that connecting AWS services to each other and to third party tools is becoming more and more common. For example, in a recent post, I […]
AWS Week in Review – August 10, 2015
Let’s take a quick look at what happened in AWS-land last week: Monday, August 10 We announced that CloudWatch Logs Now Supports Cross-Account Subscriptions. The AWS Java Blog discussed Managing Dependencies with AWS SDK for Java. The Flux7 Blog described AWS Config: A Configuration Manager to Save the Day. The Nimbo Blog discussed Amazon Aurora: […]
New – Monitor Your AWS Free Tier Usage
I strongly believe that you need to make a continuous investment in learning about new tools and technologies that will enhance your career. When I began my career in the software industry, the release cycles for hardware and software were measured in months, quarters, or years. Back then (the 1980’s, to be precise) you could […]
Elastic Beanstalk Update – Enhanced Application Health Monitoring
My colleague Abhishek Singh shared a guest post that brings word of a helpful new Elastic Beanstalk feature! — Jeff; AWS Elastic Beanstalk simplifies the process of deploying and scaling Java, .NET, PHP, Node.js, Python, Ruby, Go, and Docker web applications and services on AWS. Today we are making Elastic Beanstalk even more useful by […]
AWS Week in Review – August 3, 2015
Let’s take a quick look at what happened in AWS-land last week: Monday, August 3 We announced that Amazon Redshift Now Supports Dynamic Work Load Management and List Aggregate Functions. The AWS Windows and .NET Developer Blog reviewed the AWS SDK for .NET’s SDK Cache. A Reddit post in /r/aws shared Some Extra CloudWatch Metrics. […]
King – Using Amazon CloudFront to Deliver Mobile Games to Over 200 Countries
I recently spent some time on the phone with the folks from King to learn more about how they use Amazon CloudFront to serve game content to a world-wide audience. All About King The company was founded in 2003. At that time, they built web games easily accessed from the various portal sites that were […]
AWS Training & Certification Update – New Windows-Focused Learning Quests
My colleague Janna Pellegrino is happy to be able to share news of our latest learning quests in today’s guest post! One of the easiest ways to learn how you can benefit from the AWS cloud is with hands-on practice. Self-paced labs provide this hands-on training in a live practice environment. AWS subject matter experts […]