AWS News Blog

Let’s take a quick look at what happened in AWS-land last week: Monday December 14 We announced Encrypted EBS Boot Volumes. We updated the DynamoDB Backend for Titan to Version 1.0. We announced that Amazon RDS Now Supports Oracle Database Standard Edition Two (BYOL) and October 2015 PSU. The AWS DevOps Blog showed you how […]

Let’s take a quick look at what happened in AWS-land last week: Monday December 7 We announced Instance Protection for Auto Scaling. We announced Encryption at Rest for Amazon Aurora. I published AWS Podcasts with Convox, FundersClub, Pachyderm, and Runscope. The AWS Windows and .NET Developer Blog announced the AWS SDK for .NET Refresh for […]

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) makes it easy for you to set up, run, scale, and maintain a relational database. As is often the case with the high-level AWS model, we take care of all of the details in order to give you the time to focus on your application and your business. Enhanced […]

We announced AWS Config Rules (Dynamic Compliance Checking for Cloud Resources) at AWS re:Invent and made a preview available to interested customers. As I noted at the time, you can use these rules to verify that existing and newly launched AWS resources conform to your organization’s security guidelines and best practices without having to spend […]

A few months ago, I wrote about AWS IoT Core (see AWS IoT – Cloud Services for Connected Devices) and talked about how we are working to make sure that AWS is well-equipped to support many different types of IoT devices and applications. At that time we launched AWS IoT Core in beta form and […]

Many of our customers have been asking us for data and tools to allow them to better understand and manage their AWS costs. New Reports Today we are introducing a set of new AWS Cost and Usage Reports that provide you with comprehensive data about products, pricing, and usage. The reports allow you to understand […]

My colleague Sivakanth Mundru wrote the guest post below in order to share news of some important new features for AWS CloudTrail. — Jeff; As many of you know AWS CloudTrail provides visibility into API activity in your AWS account and enables you to answer important questions such as which user made an API call […]

Amazon CloudFront helps you to get your content to your users at high speed with low latency. Today we are making CloudFront even better with the addition of support for Gzip compression. After you enable it for a particular CloudFront distribution, text and binary content will be compressed at the edge and returned in response […]