AWS News Blog
Route 53 Health Check Improvements – Faster Interval and Configurable Failover
Amazon Route 53 is a highly available and scalable Domain Name Service. As such, it efficiently translates names such as aws.amazon.com into IP addresses. Route 53 also includes a very handy failover feature. Once enabled, this feature performs health checks at regular intervals, and then switches to a backup site if the primary one appears […]
AWS Week in Review – February 10, 2014
Let’s take a quick look at what happened in AWS-land last week: Monday, February 10 We announced that AWS CloudFormation Now Supports Amazon Redshift. We announced another AWS Test Drive : Esri Maps for SharePoint. Tuesday, February 11 We announced that the G2 Instance Type is Now Available in the Asia Pacific (Tokyo) Region. Wednesday, […]
New AWS Test Drive – Esri Maps for SharePoint
As regular readers of this blog know, I am a big fan of the AWS Test Drive Program. I love the fact that it gives you the ability to quickly and easily launch and evaluate a wide variety of server-based applications at no charge. Instead of spending hours downloading and configuring these applications on your […]
AWS CloudFormation Adds Support for Redshift and More
My colleague Chetan Dandekar has a lot of good news for AWS CloudFormation users! — Jeff; AWS CloudFormation now supports Amazon Redshift. We have recently enhanced our support for other AWS resources as well. What is CloudFormation?AWS CloudFormation simplifies provisioning and management of a wide range of AWS resources, from EC2 and VPC to DynamoDB. […]
AWS Week in Review – February 3, 2014
Let’s take a quick look at what happened in AWS-land last week: Monday, February 3 We updated the Amazon CloudFront Public IP Address Ranges. Tuesday, February 4 The Amazon Mobile App Distribution Blog announced that you can Earn a Guaranteed $1.50 CPM on Banner Ads from the Amazon Mobile Ads Network for a limited time. […]
AWS Week in Review – January 27, 2014
Let’s take a quick look at what happened in AWS-land last week: Monday, January 27 We announced that AWS CloudFormation now supports Auto Scaling Scheduled Actions and DynamoDB Secondary Indexes. We announced a new Financial Services Category in the AWS Marketplace. Tuesday, January 28 We announced that Amazon Kinesis can now Connect to Storm. Wednesday, […]
New Features for Route 53 – Improved Health Checks, HTTPS, Record Modification
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. Today we are adding some useful new features to Route 53: Improved Health Checks (including HTTPS support), and a new […]
Improved Filtering and Searching for the AWS Marketplace
As we continue to add additional products to the AWS Marketplace, we want to make sure that you can find, buy, and start to use them as quickly as possible. We have fine-tuned the search model used by the AWS Marketplace. We have also added a set of search filters and improved performance. Fine-Tuned SearchWhen […]