AWS News Blog

We are expanding the footprint once again, this time with a new region in Seoul, South Korea. AWS customers in the area can use the new Asia Pacific (Seoul) region for fast, low-latency access to the suite of AWS infrastructure services. New Region The new Seoul region has two Availability Zones (raising the global total […]

The AWS Cost Explorer (read The New Cost Explorer for AWS to learn more) is a set of a tools that help you to track and manage your AWS costs. Last year we added saved reports, budgets & forecasts, and additional filtering & grouping dimensions. Today we are adding EC2 usage data to Cost Explorer, […]

I am happy to be able to announce that we are making yet another EC2 price reduction! We are reducing the On-Demand and Reserved instance, and Dedicated host prices for C4 and M4 instances running Linux by 5% in the , , , , , , , and regions. We are also reducing the On-Demand, […]

Let’s take a quick look at what happened in AWS-land last week: Monday December 28 I published podcasts from Aerobatic, Aire, Prairie Cloud, and Osper. We announced that D2 Instances are Available in AWS GovCloud (US). We announced that AWS CloudFormation Now Supports AWS WAF, AWS Directory Service for Microsoft Active Directory, DynamoDB Global Secondary […]

I first wrote about last year when we made it available in preview form. At the time, I noted that is a managed calendaring and email solution that runs in the and works with your existing desktop and mobile clients. In my initial post (Amazon WorkMail – Managed Email and Calendaring in the AWS Cloud) […]

For my final batch of 2015 podcasts, I spoke with representatives of Banter, Predicsis, Peak, Urban Massage, Contentful, Babbel, and Intel IoT. As always, the “Episode” links go directly to the audio files. You can also find several subscription options on the page. Episode 127 For Episode 127, I interviewed Diego Villareal (CEO and Co-founder) […]

After some experimentation, I am now somewhat proficient at recording podcasts remotely! In fact, three of the four podcasts below were recorded over Skype with the aid of Zencastr. This time around, I spoke with representatives of Aerobatic, Aire, Prairie Cloud, and Osper. As usual, the “Episode” links go directly to the audio files. Episode […]

Let’s take a quick look at what happened in AWS-land last week: Monday December 21 We announced that the EC2 Container Registry is Now Generally Available. The showed how Students Use AWS to Predict Ebola Outbreaks. The noted that AWS ISO 27001 Certification Increases Total In-Scope Services to 33. We updated the AWS SDK for […]

My colleague Jon Fritz wrote the guest post below to introduce you to an important new feature for . — Jeff; Today we are announcing that Amazon EMR now supports launching clusters in Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) private subnets, allowing you to quickly, cost-effectively, and securely create fully configured clusters with Hadoop ecosystem applications, […]

Here’s the final batch of interviews that I recorded on Tuesday, September 1 at the AWS Loft in San Francisco as part of the Intel Startup Spotlight for the . Episode 122 was recorded remotely (a first for me). I spoke with representatives from JAWS, Muterra, Betabrand, and DubSmash. As usual, the “Episode” links go […]