AWS News Blog

Big changes in the technology world seem to come about in two ways. Sometimes there’s a big splashy announcement and a visible public leap in to the future. Most of the time, however, change is a bit more subtle. Early adopters find a new technology that makes them more productive and share it amongst themselves. […]

In June of this year I introduced you to the new SSD-backed Elastic Block Storage option for EC2. Just a few months after release, this new option (formally known as General Purpose (SSD)) is already being used for about 90% of the newly created EBS volumes. Our customers have told us that they love the […]

Amazon DynamoDB Amazon DynamoDB is a fast and flexible NoSQL database service for all applications that need consistent, single-digit millisecond latency at any scale. Our customers love the fact that they can get started quickly and simply (and often at no charge, within the AWS Free Tier) and then seamlessly scale to store any amount […]

When I talk to enterprises and mid-sized companies about their plans to gain agility and cost-effectiveness by their workloads and applications to the Cloud, they are eager to move forward and often want to seek the assistance of solution providers with AWS expertise. We created the AWS Partner Network (APN) a couple of years ago […]

Let’s take a quick look at what happened in AWS-land last week: Monday, September 29 We published a New Quick Start – Windows PowerShell Desired State Configuration (DSC) on AWS. We announced that Cloudformation Support for ELB, CloudFront, OpsWorks, and SNS has been updated. We announced that Version 2 of the AWS Mobile SDK is now […]

My colleague Derek Lyon sent along a great guest post to introduce some important enhancements to the AWS Management Portal for vCenter. — Jeff; We have recently added a number of new features to the AWS Management Portal for vCenter. These enhancements make it significantly easier for VMware professionals to setup the portal and start […]

Amazon Elastic Transcoder is a scalable, fully managed media (audio and video) transcoding service that works on a cost-effective, pay-per-use model. You don’t have to license or install any software, and you can take advantage of transcoding presets for a variety of popular output devices and formats, including H.264 and VP8 video and AAC, MP3, […]

I’d like to give you an update on the EC2 Maintenance announcement that I posted last week. Late yesterday (September 30th), we completed a reboot of less than 10% of the EC2 fleet to protect you from any security risks associated with the Xen Security Advisory (XSA-108). This Xen Security Advisory was embargoed until a […]