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Amazon Aurora is a fully-managed, MySQL-compatible, relational database engine that combines the speed and availability of high-end commercial databases with the simplicity and cost-effectiveness of open source database (read my post, Amazon Aurora – New Cost-Effective MySQL-Compatible Database Engine for Amazon RDS, to learn more). Aurora allows you create up to 15 read replicas to […]

Do you currently store relational data in an on-premises Oracle, SQL Server, MySQL, MariaDB, or PostgreSQL database? Would you like to move it to the AWS cloud with virtually no downtime so that you can take advantage of the scale, operational efficiency, and the multitude of data storage options that are available to you? If […]

The AWS Partner Network (APN) helps our partners to build successful businesses around AWS. Members of APN provide consulting services (APN Consulting Partners) or software solutions (APN Technology Partners) that are integrated with the AWS platform. I am happy to be able announce that AWS Advanced Technology Partner Splunk (read their APN entry) has named […]

Rob Leidle, Development Manager for Amazon EMR, wrote the guest post below to introduce you to the latest and greatest version! — Jeff; Today we are announcing Amazon EMR release 4.4.0, which adds support for Apache Sqoop (1.4.6) and Apache HCatalog 1.0.0, an upgraded release of Apache Mahout (0.11.1), and upgraded sandbox releases for Presto […]

Let’s take a quick look at what happened in AWS-land last week: Monday March 7 We launched Notifications for AWS CodeCommit. We announced that New AWS Accounts Now Default to Long EC2 Resource IDs. The AWS Security Blog showed you How to Automate Restricting Access to a VPC by Using AWS IAM and AWS CloudFormation. […]

My colleague Jonathan Henson has great news for C++ developers who would like to use AWS. — Jeff; I am happy to announce that the AWS SDK for C++ is now available as a developer preview. Last fall, we released the SDK in an experimental state to gather feedback and improve the APIs. Since then, […]

Ten years ago today I announced the launch of Amazon S3 with a simple blog post! It is hard to believe that a decade has passed since then, or that I have written well over 2000 posts during that time. Future Shock When I was in high school, I read and reported on a relatively […]

We love startups! When energy, enthusiasm, creativity, and passion for changing the world come together to build new and exciting businesses and applications, everyone benefits. Today I am kicking off a new series of posts. Every month I am going to feature a handful of hot, AWS-powered startups and tell you a little bit about […]