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Sometimes business enables technology, and sometimes technology enables business! If you are migrating from an existing environment to AWS, you may have purchased volume licenses for software that is licensed for use on a server with a certain number of sockets or physical cores. Or, you may be required to run it on a specific […]

Have you ever taken the time to watch the access and error logs from your web server scroll past? In addition to legitimate well-formed requests from users and spiders, you will probably see all sorts of unseemly and downright scary requests far too often.  For example, I checked the logs for one of my servers […]

Let’s take a quick look at what happened in AWS-land last week: Monday September 28 We announced that you can now Receive and Process Incoming Email with Amazon SES. We announced an Elastic Beanstalk Update, with Support for Java and Go. The previewed AWS Big Data Analytics Sessions at re:Invent 2015. The announced New Support […]

There’s a lot of buzz about Spot instances these days. Customers are really starting to understand the power that comes with the ability to name their own price for compute power! After launching the Spot fleet API in May to allow you to manage thousands of Spot instances with a single request, we followed up […]

Seattle-born musical legend Jimi Hendrix started out his career with a landmark album titled Are You Experienced? I’ve got a similar question for you: Are You Well-Architected? In other words, have you chosen a cloud architecture that is in alignment with the best practices for the use of AWS? We want to make sure that […]

As I have noted in the past, I am a huge fan and devoted user of . In fact, every blog post that I have written and illustrated over the last 6 or 7 months has been written on my WorkSpace. The most recent set of AWS podcasts were edited on the same WorkSpace. Several […]

My colleague Sivakanth Mundru sent the guest post below to introduce a pair of features for . — Jeff; As you know, AWS CloudTrail records API calls made on your account and delivers log files containing API activity to an S3 bucket you specify. Today, we are announcing two new features for CloudTrail: Support for […]

Elasticsearch  is a real-time, distributed search and analytics engine that fits nicely into a cloud environment. It is document-oriented and does not require a schema to be defined up-front. It supports structured, unstructured, and time-series queries and serves as a substrate for other applications and visualization tools including Kibana. Today we are launching the new […]

makes it easy for you to create and manage a collection of related AWS resources (which we call a stack). Starting from a template, CloudFormation creates the resources in an orderly and predictable fashion, taking in to account dependencies between them, and connecting them together as defined in the template. A CloudFormation template is nothing […]

My colleagues Jon Fritz and Abhishek Sinha are both Senior Product Managers on the team. They wrote the guest post below to introduce you to the newest release of EMR and to tell you about new EMR cluster resizing functionality. — Jeff; is a managed service that simplifies running and managing distributed data processing frameworks, […]