AWS News Blog
Amazon EC2 Console Improvements
We have made some important improvements to the EC2 Management Console. Late last year we introduced the Launch Instance Wizard and AWS Marketplace Integration. We also updated the look and feel of key console pages. Today we are updating the remaining pages of the console with a new look and feel and a host of […]
AWS Trusted Advisor Update – CloudFront Content Delivery Optimization
Step by step, the AWS Trusted Advisor keeps getting better and better. As you might already know, the Trusted Advisor inspects your AWS environment and makes recommendations that can save you money, increase system performance and reliability, and improve your security profile. Today we are introducing a new check (number 32 if you are keeping […]
AWS Week in Review – February 17, 2014
Let’s take a quick look at what happened in AWS-land last week: Tuesday, February 18 We announced Health Check Improvements for Amazon Route 53. Wednesday, February 19 We announced that AWS Elastic Load Balancing Now Supports Perfect Forward Secrecy and Other Security Enhancements. Thursday, February 20 We added new AWS Customer Success Stories from BrightRoll, […]
Amazon RDS – Support for Second Generation Standard Instances
Amazon RDS makes it easy for you to set up, scale, and run a relational database. Today we are making RDS even better with the introduction of the second generation (M3) of the Standard DB instance family. This new generation supports the db.m3.medium, db.m3.large, db.m3.xlarge, and db.m3.2xlarge instance types. These instances have a similar CPU […]
AWS Data Pipeline Now Available in Four More Regions
As we often do, we launched AWS Data Pipeline in a single AWS Region (US East (Northern Virginia) to be precise). It is now available in the following Regions as well: US West (Oregon) EU (Ireland) Asia Pacific (Sydney) Asia Pacific (Tokyo) AWS Data Pipeline has always supported data flows between Regions. With today’s release, […]
Process Streaming Data with Kinesis and Elastic MapReduce
Regular readers of this blog already know that Amazon Kinesis is a fully managed service for real-time processing of streaming data at massive scale. As I noted last month when we introduced the Kinesis Storm Spout, Kinesis is but one component of a complete end-to-end streaming data application. In order to build such an application, […]
Amazon CloudFront Now Supports Microsoft Smooth Streaming
Delivering high-quality video or audio content to web and mobile clients is a tricky endeavor. Beyond supporting a multitude of formats and device types, you need to account for frequent and dramatic changes in the quality of each customers Internet connection. Latency, available bandwidth, transmission error rates, and other factors stand to compromise the overall […]
Elastic Load Balancing – Perfect Forward Secrecy and Other Security Enhancements
My colleague Lesley Mbogo has some good news for users of the AWS Elastic Load Balancing service. — Jeff; We have made several enhancements to Elastic Load Balancing (ELB) to further improve the security of your application traffic, making it easier for you to better protect the confidential data and privacy of your users. Today, […]