AWS News Blog

Now Available – SUSE SLES 12 AMIs for Amazon EC2

Our friends at SUSE recently announced the release of SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12. This release introduces a new module-based system that allows customers to stay current with the desired parts of the software stack while sticking with a stable set of core packages. I am happy to announce that this new release is now […]

Sweet Treats for DynamoDB Users

My friends on the DynamoDB team sent me a tasty bribe (courtesy of Seattle’s Trophy Cupcakes) in a successful attempt to get me to tell you about some features that I didn’t have time to tell you about earlier this month! As you may know from my previous post, we launched support for JSON, increased […]

AWS Week in Review – October 27, 2014

Let’s take a quick look at what happened in AWS-land last week: Monday, October 27 We announced that Amazon Elastic Transcoder API Calls are now Available in CloudTrail. A post on the Databricks blog earlier this month talked about Spark the Fastest Open Source Engine for Sorting a Petabyte. A post on the AWS Java Blog […]

New – Create Amazon WorkSpaces Golden Images

Amazon WorkSpaces is a managed desktop service in the Cloud. It allows administrators to provision cloud-based desktops that can be accessed from laptops (PC and Mac), tablets (Kindle Fire, Android, and iPad), and zero client devices. Today we are making WorkSpaces even more flexible with the addition of a new image creation feature. Administrators can […]

AWS Week in Review – October 20, 2014

Let’s take a quick look at what happened in AWS-land last week: Monday, October 20 We provided some options for Fast, Easy, Free Data Sync from RDS MySQL to Amazon Redshift. The AWS Java Blog published Part 2 of a series aimed at Introducing DynamoDB Document API. The AWS Windows and .NET Developer Blog kicked off […]

Multi-AZ Support / Auto Failover for Amazon ElastiCache for Redis

Like every AWS offering, Amazon ElastiCache started out simple and then grew in breadth and depth over time. Here’s a brief recap of the most important milestones: August 2011 – Initial launch with support for the Memcached caching engine in one AWS Region. December 2011 – Expansion to four additional Regions. March 2012 – The […]