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Let’s take a quick look at what happened in AWS-land last week: Monday April 11 We announced that the AWS Database Migration Service Now Supports Advanced Table and Schema Mapping. We announced that you can Easily Create New Amazon Redshift Datasources in Amazon ML by Copying Existing Datasource Settings. We updated the Amazon Kinesis Agent […]

Last year I wrote about and told you how you can use it to Test Mobile Apps on Real Devices. As I described at the time, AWS Device Farm allows you to create a project, identify an application, configure a test, and then run the test against a variety of iOS and Android devices. Remote […]

makes it easy for mobile and web apps to easily add authentication, user management, and data synchronization without having to write backend code or manage any infrastructure. In the last year we have added some powerful new features to Cognito including AWS CloudTrail support, the use of Twitter and Digits as login providers, the ability […]

Several AWS teams are focused on simplifying and accelerating the process of moving on-premises data to the cloud. We started out with the very basic PUT operation and multipart upload in the early days. Along the way we gave you the ability to send us a disk, and made that process even easier by launching […]

Amazon Kinesis makes streaming data easy in the cloud.The Amazon Kinesis platform is comprised of three distinct services: Kinesis Streams allows developers to build their own stream processing applications; Kinesis Firehose simplifies the process of loading streaming data into AWS for storage and analytics; Kinesis Analytics supports the analysis of streaming data using standard SQL […]

simplifies the process of deploying and running web applications and web services. You simply upload your code and Elastic Beanstalk will take care of the details. This includes provisioning capacity, setting up load balancing and auto scaling, and arranging for application health monitoring. You can build Elastic Beanstalk applications using a variety of platforms and […]

The AWS team spends a lot of time looking in to ways to deliver innovation based around improvements in price/performance. Quite often, this means wrestling with interesting economic and technical dilemmas. For example, it turns out that there are some really interesting trade-offs between HDD and SSD storage. On the one hand, today’s SSD devices […]

Our friends over at Box provide secure content management, collaboration, and file sharing for over half of the companies on the Fortune 500 list. Box has succeeded by paying attention to the needs of enterprise customers. For example, last year I wrote about Box Enterprise Key Management (EKM), a flexible, no-compromises encryption system that gives […]

Let’s take a quick look at what happened in AWS-land last week: Monday April 4 We announced Two New Predefined Commands and an Open Source Agent for the EC2 Run Command. We announced Release 4.5.0 of Amazon EMR, with Spark 1.6.1, Updated Hadoop and Presto, and Support for S3 SSE-KMS. The talked about Building a […]

Let’s take a quick look at what happened in AWS-land last week: Monday March 28 The showed you How to Easily Identify Your Federated Users by Using AWS CloudTrail. BotMetric continued their series of posts on AWS Security Best Practices with two new posts: Data Security and Detective Services. Evident discussed Programmatic Security Automation for […]