AWS News Blog

My colleague Chris Barclay sent along a blog post with great news for users of AWS OpsWorks! — Jeff; We are happy to introduce two new features for AWS OpsWorks that make it easier for you to manage applications: support for custom Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) and Chef 11. You can use these new features […]

Many academic and scientific conferences include a poster session. What’s That?Researchers describe their research and their results on an informative poster which they bring to the conference, where it is set up for display. The researchers stand by their posters to answer questions about the work and to discuss it with the attendees. Posters sessions […]

My colleague Joe Ziegler wrote the report below to recap and summarize the recent Cloud Kata event that we held in conjunction with the AWS Summit in Singapore. — Jeff; Summary AWS held the first Cloud Kata for Startups event in Singapore at the Marina Bay Sands on July 17th, bringing together over 800 entrepreneurs, […]

Let’s take a quick look at what happened in AWS-land last week: Monday, July 15 We released the Choosing a Cloud Platform page. This happened a few weeks ago but I forgot to mention it. Tuesday, July 16 The AWS Security Blog published part 3 of a series on securing access to AWS using MFA. […]

Tom Rizzo, A General Manager on the Amazon EC2 team, sent along today’s guest post. — Jinesh; Over the last few months we have released some powerful Windows enhancements to AWS including AWS Management Pack for Microsoft System Center and Guidance for Microsoft SQL Server AlwaysOn Availability Groups. Building on the popularity of our SQL […]

With AWS Elastic Beanstalk, you can deploy, monitor, and grow your application quickly and easily. Its management console is an essential piece of the overall experience and helps make complex tasks simple. Today, Im happy to introduce a redesign of the Elastic Beanstalk management console that streamlines common tasks further and adds new functionality that […]

Planning for this year’s AWS re:Invent conference started just days after we returned home from Las Vegas last fall and now we’re ready to share them with you! AWS re:Invent will return to Las Vegas, running from November 12 to 15 at the Venetian Hotel and the adjoining Conference Center. We have pulled out all […]

Let’s take a quick look at what happened in AWS-land last week: Monday, July 8 We introduced Tags for Amazon RDS Resources and Resource-Level Permissions for EC2 and RDS Resources. Tuesday, July 9 We added Watermarking and Control of Bit and Frame Rates to the Amazon Elastic Transcoder. Wednesday, July 10 We reduced the prices […]