AWS News Blog
Route 53 Improvements – Calculated Health Checks and Latency Checks
Amazon Route 53 is a highly available and scalable Domain Name System (DNS) web service. Route 53 connects user requests to infrastructure running in AWS (EC2 instances, load balancers, and S3 buckets), and can also be used to route users to infrastructure outside of AWS. You can configure Route 53 to perform periodic health checks, […]
Moving Past Microsoft Windows Server 2003 End-of-Life Using AWS
Update (January 2019): The options described this blog post no longer apply. To learn more, read about Microsoft Licensing on AWS. In the guest post below, my colleagues Bryan Nairn and Niko Pamboukas list some options for those of you who are still running your applications on Windows Server 2003. — Jeff; As many […]
AWS Week in Review – September 7, 2015
Let’s take a quick look at what happened in AWS-land last week: Monday, September 7 The AWS Compute Blog published a Simpler Serverless Test Harness Using AWS Lambda and also talked about Microservices Without the Servers. The AWS Mobile Development Blog showed you how to Prepare Your Apps for iOS 9. The N2WS Blog listed […]
User Defined Functions for Amazon Redshift
The Amazon Redshift team is on a tear. They are listening to customer feedback and rolling out new features all the time! Below you will find an announcement of another powerful and highly anticipated new feature. — Jeff; Amazon Redshift makes it easy to launch a petabyte-scale data warehouse. For less than $1,000/Terabyte/year, you can […]
AWS Podcasts – Legion Analytics, Bohemian Guitars, Remind, Remeeting
Earlier this month I spent two exceptionally pleasant days at the AWS Loft in San Francisco. While I was there I sat down with a number of startups and recorded their stories. These stories are part of a new Intel Startup Spotlight series that I’ll be focusing on in the coming weeks and months. As […]
AWS Week in Review – August 31, 2015
Let’s take a quick look at what happened in AWS-land last week: Monday, August 31 The AWS Compute Blog explained The Fine Art of Node.JS Coding in AWS Lambda. We announced that you can now Subscribe to AWS Public IP Address Changes via Amazon SNS. We announced Resource-Oriented Bidding for EC2 Spot Instances. The AWS […]
AWS Webinars – September, 2015
I have always advised my family, friends, colleagues, and audiences to plan to spend some time learning something new every day. If you don’t take responsibility for your own continued education, you can soon find that you have fallen far behind your peers! If you are interested in staying current with AWS, I have a […]
New AWS Quick Start – Magento for E-Commerce
Magento is a very popular open-source content management system for e-commerce sites. Sellers and developers appreciate its open architecture, flexibility, extensibility (hundreds of extensions), and back-end workflows that can be tailored to fit the unique needs of each customer. Magento Community Edition (Magento CE) Magento Enterprise Edition (Magento EE) are popular among our customers. Some […]