AWS News Blog

Many of our customers have asked us for a detailed list of the IP address ranges assigned to and used by AWS. While the use cases vary from customer to customer, they generally involve firewalls and other forms of network access controls. In the past we have met this need by posting human-readable information to […]

The AWS Partner Network (APN) is a rapidly growing ecosystem of Consulting and Technology partners. These partners push the boundaries of what can be done with cloud computing by creating and bringing value-added solutions to their customers. Our goal is to continue to support the APN partners as they work to build successful businesses on […]

AppStream can provide our customers with easier access to the tools they need on a wider range of devices than in the past. Ray MilhemVP of Enterprise Solutions at ANSYS When I first wrote about Amazon AppStream last year, I described the AppStream APIs and showed you how to use them to modify an existing […]

I have a couple of pieces of good news for current and potential users of Amazon Zocalo. Both items are available now and you can start using them today. Zocalo Mobile Apps You can use our new mobile apps to access Zocalo on your iPhone or Android device using your corporate credentials. You can work […]

I’ve got some good news for current and potential users of Amazon CloudSearch. As you may already know, CloudSearch is a a fully-managed service that makes it easy to setup, operate, and scale a search service for your website or application. If you use CloudSearch, you will benefit from a price reduction, additional language support, […]

Let’s take a quick look at what happened in AWS-land last week. I have augmented selected items with links to their re:Invent presentations. Monday, November 10 We announced CloudTrail Integration With CloudWatch Logs. We updated Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL with Read Replicas, 9.3.5 Support, Migration, and Three New Extensions. We announced a new AWS Direct Connect […]

As Werner just announced from the stage at AWS re:Invent, we have some great news for users of Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS). We are planning to support EBS volumes that are larger and faster than ever before! Here are the new specs: General Purpose (SSD) – You will be able to create volumes […]

Our customers continue to increase the sophistication and intensity of the compute-bound workloads that they run on the Cloud. Applications such as top-end website hosting, online gaming, simulation, risk analysis, and rendering are voracious consumers of CPU cycles and can almost always benefit from the parallelism offered by today’s multicore processors. The New C4 Instance […]