AWS News Blog

The Amazon CloudFront team has added a slew of analytics and reporting features this year. I would like to recap a pair of recent releases and then introduce you to the features that we are releasing today. As you probably know, CloudFront is a content delivery web service that integrates with the other parts of […]

Earlier this year, we launched a log storage and monitoring feature for Amazon CloudWatch. As a quick recap, this feature allows you to upload log files from your Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances to CloudWatch, where they are stored durably and easily monitored for specific symbols or messages. The EC2Config service runs on […]

My colleague Rahul Patil sent me a nice guest post. In the post Rahul shows you how to use the new Kinesis Client Library (KCL) for Python developers. — Jeff; The Amazon Kinesis team is excited to release the Kinesis Client Library (KCL) for Python developers! Developers can use the KCL to build distributed applications […]

My colleague Matt Wood wrote a great guest post to announce new support for one of our genomics partners. — Jeff; I am happy to announce that AWS will be supporting the work of our partner, Seven Bridges Genomics, who has been selected as one of the National Cancer Institute (NCI) Cancer Genomics Cloud Pilots. […]

Let’s take a quick look at what happened in AWS-land last week: Monday, October 13 We announced the first Internet of Things (IoT) Hack Day at re:Invent. We announced that Amazon Elastic Transcoder now Supports HLSv4. The AWS Java Blog published Part 1 of the Introducing the DynamoDB API series. The AWS Ruby Development Blog launched […]

As you know, I’m a big fan of Amazon RDS. I love the fact that it allows you focus on your applications and not on keeping your database up and running. I’m also excited by the disruptive price, performance, and ease of use of Amazon Redshift, our petabyte-scale, fully managed data warehouse service that lets […]

Amazon WorkSpaces provides a persistent, cloud-based desktop experience that can be accessed from a variety of devices including PC and Mac desktops and laptops, iPads, Kindle Fires, and Android tablets. Support for PCoIP Zero Clients Today we are making WorkSpaces even more flexible by adding support for PCoIP zero clients. WorkSpaces desktops are rendered on […]

The new Quick Start Reference Deployment Guide for Cloudera Enterprise Data Hub does exactly what the title suggests! The comprehensive (20 page) guide includes the architectural considerations and configuration steps that will help you to launch the new Cloudera Director and an associated Cloudera Enterprise Data Hub (EDH) in a matter of minutes. As the […]