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Do you have an idea for a cool and powerful Android application that can make use of one or more AWS services (preferably using the AWS SDK for Android)? If so, now is the time to design and code the application and submit it to the Amazon Appstore via the Appstore Developer Program. All valid […]

The AWS team is growing by leaps and bounds. Existing teams are expanding, new teams are being formed, and we’re pushing into new territories. There are so many jobs that our official job site can be a bit difficult to navigate. To make it easier to find the job that is right for you, I […]

We have added three new features to the Amazon S3 tab of the AWS Management Console: Easier Access – You no longer need to install Adobe Flash or provide outbound access to port 843 on your network in order to use the S3 tab. Folder Upload – You can now upload the contents of an […]

Last night I delivered the following presentation to the Seattle AWS User Group to review and summarize some of the additions we’ve made to AWS over the last couple of quarters: AWS Q3 2011 Update – Seattle AWS User Group View more presentations from Amazon Web Services The presentation went over quite well so I […]

Over the summer months, we’d like to share a few stories from startups around the world: what are they working on and how they are using the cloud to get things done. Today, we’re profiling one of last year’s finalists from the AWS Start-up Challenge – TellApart, from Burlingame, California! TellAparts application stood out to […]

We’ve added some additional flexibility to Amazon EC2’s Elastic Load Balancing feature: You can now terminate SSL sessions at the load balancer and then re-encrypt them before they are sent to the back-end EC2 instances. You can now configure the set of ciphers and SSL protocols accepted by the load balancer. You can now configure […]

Over the summer months, we’d like to share a few stories from startups around the world: what are they working on and how they are using the cloud to get things done. Today, we’re profiling Appscend, from Bucharest, Romania!   Appscend is a sign that catching the “startup bug” and being able to run a […]

I woke up today and realized that today is the 5th anniversary of launch of Amazon EC2. I published the initial announcement in the summer of 2006 while on vacation with my family. We (the AWS Marketing Team) have put together an interactive infographic to highlight some of the more significant changes and improvements that […]