AWS News Blog
Look Before You Leap – The Coming Leap Second and AWS (Updated)
My colleague Mingxue Zhao sent me a guest post designed to make sure that you are aware of an important time / clock issue. Note: This post was first published on May 18, 2015. We made some important additions and corrections on May 25, 2015. — Jeff; The International Earth Rotation and Reference Systems (IERS) […]
AWS OpsWorks for Windows
AWS OpsWorks gives you an integrated management experience that spans the entire life cycle of your application including resource provisioning, configuration management, application deployment, monitoring, and access control. As I noted in my introductory post (AWS OpsWorks – Flexible Application Management in the Cloud Using Chef), it works with applications of any level of complexity […]
AWS Week in Review – May 11, 2015
Let’s take a quick look at what happened in AWS-land last week: Monday, May 11 We announced that you can now Quickly Filter Data in Amazon Redshift Using Interleaved Sorting. We announced a New VPC Endpoint for Amazon S3. We announced that Amazon Redshift and Amazon RDS Now Support Encryption via AWS Key Management Service […]
Now Available – AWS Directory Service API & CLI (Bonus: CloudTrail Integration)
AWS Directory Service allows you to connect your AWS resources to an existing on-premises Active Directory or to set up a new, standalone directory in the AWS Cloud (see my post, New AWS Directory Service, to learn more). Until today, all operations on a Directory were initiated through the AWS Management Console. This was convenient, […]
Now Available – AWS Mobile SDK for Unity
Unity is a popular cross-platform game development environment. You can build your 2D or 3D game once using C# and then run it on many different platforms and devices. Now Available Today we are launching the AWS Mobile SDK for Unity. This new SDK comes in the form of Unity packages that contain .NET classes. […]
Useful New IAM Feature – Access Key Last Use Info
Best practices for IT security are often easier to define than to implement. We are doing our best to define best practices at the AWS Security Center, backed up with services and security features that are as easy to implement as possible. In this vein, I want to make sure that you are fully aware […]
AWS Educate – Credits, Training, Content, and Collaboration for Students & Educators
Update February 21, 2023 – AWS Educate now focuses on pre-professional learners and no longer offers grants to institutions or to educators. Visit the AWS Educate page to learn more. Also, educator tools have been migrated to AWS Academy. Update May 17, 2022 – AWS Educate has expanded access to free, on-demand cloud education for […]
Register Today for AWS re:Invent 2015!
I am pleased to be able to announce that registration for AWS re:Invent 2015 is now open! This is our fourth annual event and I expect that it, like its predecessors, will sell out. With less than 5 months to go before the October 6th opening, preparation for the services, presentations, keynotes, hackathons, and entertainment […]