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Enable Single Sign On to the AWS Management Console

AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) enables you to create and manage IAM users and manage access to your AWS account. Some customers have told us that they prefer leveraging their existing corporate identities to access AWS services and resources via identity federation.  Today, were making it even easier for you to get started with […]

The AWS Report – Venugopal Pai of Riverbed

For this episode of The AWS Report, I traveled to San Francisco and spoke with Venugopal Pai, Vice President of Alliances at Riverbed: Pai (as he prefers to be called) talks about Riverbed’s evolution from WAN performance to application performance and now to datacenter performance. A number of Riverbed products including the Stingray Traffic Manager, […]

AWS Week in Review – November 19, 2012

Let’s take a quick look at what happened in AWS-land last week: Monday, November 19 The most recent episode of The AWS Report features an interview with David Rocamore of Controlgroup. We now support delegating API access to AWS services using IAM roles. We announced that Windows Server 2012 is now available on AWS. Tuesday, […]

SQS Queues and SNS Notifications – Now Best Friends

The Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS) and the Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS) are important “glue” components for scalable, cloud-based applications (see the Reference Architectures in the AWS Architecture Center to learn more about how to put them to use in your own applications). One common design pattern is called “fanout.” In this pattern, a […]

EBS Volume Status Checks

We’ve received some great feedback on the EC2 instance status checks that were released earlier this year. Our customers appreciate the fact that we can detect and report on how their EC2 instances are performing. Today we are adding a new status check for EBS Provisioned IOPS volumes. As you know, you can now provision […]