AWS News Blog

Jordin Green is our guest writer today, with an inside view from the floor of HIMSS17. -Ana Empathy. It’s not always a word you hear associated with technology but one might argue it should be a central tenet for the application of technology in healthcare, and I was reminded of that fact as I wandered […]

I first wrote about AWS Database Migration Service just about a year ago in my AWS Database Migration Service post. At that time I noted that over 1,000 AWS customers had already made use of the service as part of their move to AWS. As a quick recap, and Schema Conversion Tool (SCT) help our […]

This edition includes all of our announcements, content from all of our blogs, and as much community-generated AWS content as I had time for. Going forward I hope to bring back the other sections, as soon as I get my tooling and automation into better shape. Monday February 27 We announced general availability for AWS […]

Tipu Qureshi and Ram Atur join us today with really cool news about a Git repository for AWS Health / Personal Health Dashboard. -Ana Today, we’re happy to release the AWS Health Tools repository, a community-based source of tools to automate remediation actions and customize Health alerts. The AWS Health service provides personalized information about […]

Even though we published 294 posts on this blog last year, I left out quite a number of worthwhile launches! Today I would like to focus on and recap all of the progress that the teams behind this family of services made in 2016. The team focused on four major areas last year: High Availability […]

My bank, my credit card company, my mobile provider, and other businesses that I patronize often send me password reminders, service updates, and other important customer service information via SMS (Short Message Service) messages. AWS customers have been able to use to send SMS messages for many years (see Amazon Simple Notification Service Now Supports […]

AWS Quick Starts help you to deploy popular solutions on AWS. Each Quick Start is designed by AWS solutions architects or partners, and makes use of AWS best practices for security and high availability. You can use them to spin up test or production environments that you can use right away. The Quick Starts include […]

As we finish up the month of February, Tina Barr is back with some awesome startups. -Ana This month we are bringing you five innovative hot startups: GumGum – Creating and popularizing the field of in-image advertising. Jiobit – Smart tags to help parents keep track of kids. Parsec – Offers flexibility in hardware and […]

By popular demand, I am producing this “micro” version of the AWS Week in Review. I have included all of our announcements, content from all of our blogs, and as much community-generated AWS content as I had time for. Going forward I hope to bring back the other sections, as soon as I get my […]

Over the years I have found that many of our customers are managing multiple AWS accounts. This situation can arise for several reasons. Sometimes they adopt AWS incrementally and organically, with individual teams and divisions making the move to cloud computing on a decentralized basis. Other companies grow through mergers and acquisitions and take on […]