AWS News Blog

My colleague Sivakanth Mundru wrote the guest post below in order to share news of some important new features for . As many of you know AWS CloudTrail provides visibility into API activity in your AWS account and enables you to answer important questions such as which user made an API call or which resources […]

helps you to get your content to your users at high speed with low latency. Today we are making even better with the addition of support for Gzip compression. After you enable it for a particular CloudFront distribution, text and binary content will be compressed at the edge and returned in response to requests that […]

is an online store that helps you to find, buy, and immediately start using a very wide variety of applications on AWS (some of the more popular categories are Network Infrastructure, Security, and Big Data). Up until now, running an application from was essentially equivalent to launching a single, self-contained Amazon EC2 instance. This was […]

You can use to create a logically isolated section of the AWS Cloud. Within the VPC, you can define your desired IP address range, create subnets, configure route tables, and so forth. You can also use a virtual private gateway to connect the VPC to your existing on-premises network using a hardware Virtual Private Network […]

Back when I was young, InfoWorld was a tabloid-sized journal that chronicled the growth of the PC industry. Every week I would await the newest issue and read it cover to cover, eager to learn all about the latest and greatest hardware and software. I always enjoyed and appreciated the reviews — they were unfailingly […]

The helps you to provision and configure your AWS resources so as to improve system performance and reliability, increase security, and optimize for cost. We have added some new checks and improved an existing one in order to make even more useful to you. Here is a summary of the changes: The Service Limits check […]

When we launched EC2 Run Command seven weeks ago (see my post, New EC2 Run Command – Remote Instance Management at Scale to learn more), I promised similar functionality for instances that run Linux. I am happy to be able to report that this functionality is available now and that you can start using it […]

We announced the t2.nano instances earlier this year. Like their larger siblings (t2.micro, t2.small, t2.medium, and t2.large), these instances provide a baseline level of processing power, along with the ability to save up unused cycles and use them when the need arises. As I noted in my earlier post (New T2.Large Instances), this model has […]

Here are the next batch of podcasts that I recorded on Tuesday, September 1 at the AWS Loft in San Francisco as part of the Intel Startup Spotlight for the . I spoke with startups Compgun, Primadesk, SkinnyPrice. I also spoke with Cameron Peron, a startup advisor. Here are the episodes and the show notes […]

Encryption is an important part of any data protection strategy. Over the past year or two, we have introduced many features that are designed to simplify the task of storing your cloud-based information in encrypted form. Many of these features make use of the AWS Key Management Service (KMS); here are some of the more […]