AWS News Blog
New Practice Exams for AWS Certification
As the old saying goes, practice makes perfect! In order to help you to study and prepare for the AWS Certification Exams, we have released four practice exams. These practice exams supplement the blueprint guides associated with each exam and are designed to help you to test your knowledge before you take the final exam. […]
AWS Week in Review – June 30, 2014
Let’s take a quick look at what happened in AWS-land last week: Monday, June 30 We announced More Regions, More Services and Cool Partners for Amazon CloudTrail. We announced that Amazon Kinesis is now Available in More Regions. We announced a Free Trial and Price Reductions for Amazon Redshift. Our friends at Netflix announced the Security […]
Route 53 Health Check Update – Editing and Tagging
Amazon Route 53 is a highly available and highly scalable DNS service. Route 53 is able to meet the needs of complex enterprises, while remaining simple enough to be a good fit for personal websites. We added support for Route 53 health checks a little over a year ago, and have enhanced the model several […]
Using Elastic MapReduce as a Generic Hadoop Cluster Manager
My colleague Steve McPherson sent along a nice guest post to get you thinking about ways to use Elastic MapReduce in non-traditional ways! — Jeff; Amazon Elastic MapReduce (EMR) is a fully managed Hadoop-as-a-service platform that removes the operational overhead of setting up, configuring and managing the end-to-end lifecycle of Hadoop clusters. Many of our […]
PeachDish – Login, Pay, Cook, and Eat With AWS
PeachDish is an AWS-powered dinner delivery service! After you sign up, you receive a nicely packed box full of fresh ingredients and complete cooking directions for two generously-proportioned meals for two people. Each pair of meals is shipped in a box that measures exactly one cubic foot. The perishable ingredients are packed in an insulated […]
ElastiCache Update – New M3 and R3 Instance Types
You can use Amazon ElastiCache to add a scalable caching layer to your application. As you may already know, you can use ElastiCache to create a Memcached or Redis Cache Cluster comprised of one or more Cache Nodes. Today we are making ElastiCache even more flexible by adding support for two new types of Cache […]
Amazon Redshift Free Trial and Price Reductions in Asia Pacific
When Amazon Redshift first launched, I discussed its disruptive price, performance, and ease of use. One year later, we added faster and more cost-effective SSD-based nodes to the Redshift arsenal. The pace of Redshift innovation has only quickened, with over 60 new features added since launch, 12 of which I showcased last month. Today, I’m […]
New Low Cost EC2 Instances with Burstable Performance
Even though the speedometer in my car maxes out at 150 MPH, I rarely drive at that speed (and the top end may be more optimistic than realistic), but it is certainly nice to have the option to do so when the time and the circumstances are right. Most of the time I am using […]