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Let’s take a quick look at what happened in AWS-land last week: Monday September 14 I discussed Moving Past Windows Server 2003 End of Life using AWS. The announced Windows Server on AWS Bootcamps in Seattle and Bangalore. The showed you How to Create a Policy that Whitelists Access to Sensitive Amazon S3 Buckets. The […]

My colleague Angel Pizarro wrote the guest post below to tell you about an amazing new AWS Public Data Set! — Jeff; You can now access the genome sequence data of 3,024 rice varieties that have been aligned and analyzed against five different reference genomes as an AWS Public Data Set.  The data contains over […]

The AWS Pop-up Lofts in San Francisco and New York have become hubs and working spaces for developers, entrepreneurs, students, and others who are interested in working with and learning more about AWS. They come to learn, code, meet, collaborate, ask questions, and to hang out with other like-minded folks. I expect the newly opened […]

Like all AWS services, the Amazon S3 team is always listening to customers in order to better understand their needs. After studying a lot of feedback and doing some analysis on access patterns over time, the team saw an opportunity to provide a new storage option that would be well-suited to data that is accessed […]

During my trip to the AWS Loft earlier this month, I spoke to 8 startups for the .  Almost all of them told me that they are making use of on AWS, either directly or via . They love the flexibility that it gives them, and appreciate the ease with which they can move from […]

I love to see all of the cool products and services that the Members of the build and bring to market. In the guest post below, my colleague Shawn Anderson takes you on a tour of Alert Logic’s new Cloud Insight product. — Jeff; In August, Alert Logic introduced Alert Logic Cloud Insight, which identifies […]

Last week I spoke to a technically-oriented audience at the Pacific Northwest PHP Conference. As part of my talk, I described cloud computing as a mix of technology and business, and made my point by talking about Spot instances. The audience looked somewhat puzzled at first, but as I explained further I could see their […]

Many AWS applications use to distribute traffic to a farm of instances. An architecture of this type is highly scalable since instances can be added, removed, or replaced in a non-disruptive way. Using a load balancer also gives the application the ability to keep on running if an instance encounters an application or system problem […]

is a highly available and scalable Domain Name System (DNS) web service. connects user requests to infrastructure running in AWS (EC2 instances, load balancers, and S3 buckets), and can also be used to route users to infrastructure outside of AWS. You can configure to perform periodic health checks, and to fail over to alternate endpoints […]

In the guest post below, my colleagues Bryan Nairn and Niko Pamboukas list some options for those of you who are still running your applications on Windows Server 2003. — Jeff;   As many of you may already know, on July 14th 2015 Microsoft ended its extended support for Windows Server 2003. Microsoft has published […]