AWS News Blog

ELB Connection Draining – Remove Instances From Service With Care

AWS Elastic Load Balancing distributes incoming traffic across multiple Amazon EC2 instances: You can use Elastic Load Balancing on its own, or in conjunction with Auto Scaling. When combined, the two features allow you to create a system that automatically adds and removes EC2 instances in response to changing load: In either case, the Elastic […]

Adobe Media Server is Now Available on the AWS Marketplace

I love to browse through the AWS Marketplace. There are hundreds of software infrastructure components, developer tools, and a very healthy collection of business software, all of which can be purchased and launched within minutes. One of the latest Marketplace additions is the Adobe Media Server. You can host 100 to 10,000 simultaneous RTMFP connections, […]

AWS Week in Review – March 10, 2014

Let’s take a quick look at what happened in AWS-land last week: Monday, March 10 We announced an Important AWS Account Key Change. Tuesday, March 11 The Amazon SES Blog asked (and then answered) the question, What do I do if my Registration Emails Have High Bounce Rates. Wednesday, March 12 We announced that Amazon […]

Eight Years (And Counting) of Cloud Computing

We launched Amazon S3 on March 14, 2006 with a press release and a simple blog post. We knew that the developer community was interested in and hungry for powerful, scalable, and useful web services and we were eager to see how they would respond. S3 and the Amazon Values Almost every company has a […]

Amazon ElastiCache – Now With Redis 2.8.6

Amazon ElastiCache makes it easy for you to create, operate, and scale an in-memory cache. Because ElastiCache contains support for the Memcached and Redis engines, it is compatible with a wide variety of existing applications. I’m happy to announce that ElastiCache now supports version 2.8.6 of Redis and that you can start using it today: […]

Amazon AppStream Now Available to All Developers

We announced Amazon AppStream at last fall’s re:Invent conference, and made the service available to an initial group of developers at that time. Today we are taking the next step forward. I am happy to announce that Amazon AppStream is now being made available to all interested developers. You can build applications that run on […]

Important AWS Account Key Change Coming on April 21, 2014

As of April 21, 2014, you will no longer be able to retrieve the existing secret access key(s) for your AWS (root) account. If you have become dependent on this feature, you should download your key from the legacy security credentials page now and then save it in a safe and secure location. Better yet, […]