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AWS OpsWorks Now Supports Chef 11.10

AWS OpsWorks gives you the power to model and manage your entire application, from load balancers to databases. You can customize the Amazon EC2 instances in the OpsWorks layers which comprise your application stack using any desired combination of the built-in OpsWorks templates and custom Chef recipes. The recipes can install software packages and can […]

Amazon WorkSpaces is Now Available

We announced a Limited Preview of Amazon WorkSpaces at last fall’s AWS re:Invent conference and I wrote a detailed blog post at that time. As you may recall, Amazon WorkSpaces provides a desktop computing environment in the cloud. It gives enterprise IT the power to meet the needs of a diverse user base by providing […]

AWS Achieves DoD Provisional Authorization

I am happy to be able to announce that AWS has achieved a DoD Provisional Authorization for security impact levels 1-2 on all AWS Regions in the United States. This includes US East (Northern Virginia), US West (Northern California), US West (Oregon), and AWS GovCloud (US). The issuance of the authorization means that U.S. Department […]

City on a Cloud Innovation Challenge

Cloud computing can help local governments to spur economic development, expand citizen services, and break through siloed bureaucracy by providing innovative & scalable services without wasting taxpayer funds on expensive and inflexible hardware infrastructure. We’ve already seen a lot of amazing work, including GIS applications, emergency preparedness and response, open access to data, mobile applications, […]

AWs Week in Review – March 17, 2014

Let’s take a quick look at what happened in AWS-land last week: Monday, March 17 We added AWS customer success stories from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), LatentView, Peak Games, PropertyGuru, and Vserv.mobi. We updated the EC2 IP Address Ranges. Tuesday, March 18 We announced Route 53 and CloudTrail Checks for the AWS […]