AWS News Blog

My colleagues Jessica Beegle and Christopher Crosbie shared the inspiring story below! The science of cancer research is continually evolving to include new fields of study. Examples include development of chemotherapies, radiology amplified treatments, and epidemiology for identifying carcinogens. Pathology continues to help deepen the understanding of the disease’s manifestations. The discipline of computer science […]

My colleague Sanjay Padhi is part of the AWS Scientific Computing team. He wrote the guest post below to share the story of how AWS provided computational resources that aided in an important scientific discovery. The Higgs boson (sometimes referred to as the God Particle), responsible for providing insight into the origin of mass, was […]

lets you create, manage, and update a collection of AWS resources (a “stack”) in a controlled, predictable manner. Every day, customers use CloudFormation to perform hundreds of thousands of updates to the stacks that support their production workloads. They define an initial template and then revise it as their requirements change. This model, commonly known […]

makes it easy for you to deploy, operate, and scale an in-memory database in the cloud. As you may already know, ElastiCache supports the Memcached and Redis engines. More Power for Redis Today we are launching an ElastiCache update that provides you with additional control over your Redis-based ElastiCache clusters. You can now scale up […]

Airbnb is a classic story of how a few people with a great idea can disrupt an entire industry. Launched in 2008, over 80 million guests have stayed on Airbnb in over 2 million homes in over 190 countries. They recently opened 4,000 homes in Cuba to travelers around the globe. The company was also […]

Regular readers of this blog will know that I am a big fan of . As a managed database service, it takes care of the more routine aspects of setting up, running, and scaling a relational database. We first launched support for SQL Server in 2012. Since that time we have added many features including […]

Forward-looking ISVs (Indepdendent Software Vendors) are making great use of .  Users can find, buy, and start using products in minutes, without having to procure hardware or install any software. This streamlined delivery method can help ISVs to discover new customers while also decreasing the length of the sales cycle. The user pays for the […]

You can launch an EC2 Spot fleet with a couple of clicks. Once launched, the fleet allows you to draw resources from multiple pools of capacity, giving you access to cost-effective compute power regardless of the fleet size (from one instance to many thousands). For more information about this important EC2 feature, read my posts: […]

Let’s take a quick look at what happened in AWS-land last week: Monday March 14 We announced that the Developer Preview of AWS SDK for C++ is Now Available. We celebrated Ten Years in the AWS Cloud. We launched Amazon EMR 4.4.0 with Sqoop, HCatalog, Java 8, and More. The announced the Launch of AWS […]

It is still a bit of a shock to me to realize that Amazon S3 is now ten years old! The intervening decade has simply flown by. For several years, you have been able to use S3’s Lifecycle Management feature to control the storage class and the lifetime of your objects. As you may know, […]