AWS News Blog

Earlier today we opened the 6th annual AWS Government, Education, and Nonprofits Symposium in Washington, DC. As part of the event we announced another City on a Cloud Challenge, an upcoming AWS Public Data Set, and some information about the overall usage and growth of AWS in this space. City on a Cloud Challenge We […]

Amazon Echo is a new type of device designed around your voice. Echo connects to Alexa, a cloud-based voice service powered (of course) by AWS. You can ask Alexa to provide information, answer questions, play music, read the news, and get results or answers instantly. When you are in the same room as an Amazon […]

I often point to EC2 Spot Instances as a feature that can only be implemented at world-scale with any degree of utility. Unless you have a massive amount of compute power and a multitude of customers spread across every time zone in the world, with a wide variety of workloads, you simply won’t have the […]

We have prepared a pair of new AWS Quick Start Reference Deployments for you! As is the case with all AWS Quick Starts, they help you to deploy fully functional enterprise software the AWS cloud in no time flat! Each of the reference deployments includes a AWS CloudFormation template that follows best AWS practices for […]

Amazon Glacier is a secure, durable, and extremely low-cost storage service for data archiving and online backup (see my post, Amazon Glacier: Archival Storage for One Penny Per GB Per Month for an introduction). Since we introduced Glacier in the summer of 2012, we have made it even more useful by adding lifecycle management, data […]

My colleague Peter Moon sent the guest post below to introduce the newest version of the AWS SDK for Python also known as Boto. — Jeff;   Originally started as a Python client for Amazon S3 by Mitch Garnaat in 2006, Boto has been the primary tool for working with Amazon Web Services for many […]

Let’s take a quick look at what happened in AWS-land last week: Monday, June 15 We announced that AWS Lambda can now Run Java Code in Response to Events. We announced Simplified Reserved Instance Options for Amazon RDS. We announced that you can now Send Push Notifications to Mac OS Desktops and VoIP apps on […]

Earlier this year we gave you the option to set the preferred payment currency for your AWS account, with a choice of twelve currencies when you use an eligible Visa or Mastercard to pay your bill. Today I am pleased to announce that we are giving you the option to specify Canadian Dollars (CAD) as […]