AWS News Blog
AWS Identity and Access Management Using SAML
Ben Brauer, Senior Product Manager on the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) team, sent along a guest post describing a new, industry standard way to do identity federation with AWS. — Jeff; Over the years, weve had a number of blog posts that described how AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) enables identity federation. […]
Amazon Redshift – New Features Galore
We have added a very large collection of new features to Amazon Redshift. You now have more options and more ways to organize and query your petabyte-scale data warehouse. Here’s a summary: Distributed Tables – You now have more control over the distribution of a table’s rows across compute nodes. Remote Loading – You can […]
The AWS Report – Joe Vaccaro of Citrix
In the latest episode of The AWS Report, I spoke with Joe Vaccaro of Citrix to learn more about the topic of desktop virtualization. Co-host Lee Zen chatted with our colleague Eric Schultze to learn more about the Virtual Private Cloud. If you can take a minute to fill out our video survey after you […]
AWS Week in Review – November 4, 2013
Let’s take a quick look at what happened in AWS-land last week: Monday, November 4 I published an AWS Report interview with Peng Zhao of MadeiraCloud. We opened the AWS Compliance Forum. We launched the G2 Instance Type for 3-D Streaming Applications. We announced a Price Reduction for EC2’s M3 Instances. The AWS Application Management […]
The AWS Report – Steven Halliwell – AWS Public Sector
In the latest episode of The AWS Report, I spoke with my colleague Steven Halliwell, Global Director of Education and State/Local Government for AWS. We discussed the digital divide, the ways that AWS is used in education (websites, portals, MOOCs, and learning management systems, to name a few), and some specific success stories. We also […]
AWS OpsWorks for Java
Chris Barclay sent along an awesome guest post to announce the arrival of AWS OpsWorks for Java! — Jeff; I am pleased to announce that AWS OpsWorks now supports Java applications. AWS OpsWorks is an application management service that makes it easy to model and manage your entire application. You can start from templates for […]
Amazon RDS for Microsoft SQL Server – Transparent Data Encryption (TDE)
Amazon RDS for Microsoft SQL Server now supports the use of Transparent Data Encryption (TDE). Once enabled, the database instance encrypts data before it is stored in the database and decrypts it after it is retrieved. You can use this feature in conjunction with our previously announced support for SSL connections to SQL Server to […]
AWS Data Pipeline Now Supports Amazon Redshift
AWS Data Pipeline (see my introductory blog post for more information) is a web service that helps you to integrate and process data across compute and storage services at specified intervals. You can transform and process data that is stored in the cloud or on-premises in a highly scalable fashion without having to worry about […]