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The guest blog post below was written by Jaehyun Wie while he was a developer intern on the AWS Elastic Beanstalk Team. It shows you how to run your Docker apps locally using the Elastic Beanstalk Command Line Interface (CLI). — Jeff; The Elastic Beanstalk command line interface (EB CLI) makes it easier for developers, […]

I have become a devoted user of . I draft my blog posts (including this one) and then use WorkDocs to route them to the appropriate people and teams for review and translation. On an average day I probably upload new versions of 4 or 5 draft blog posts and review and respond to feedback […]

The skills and techniques needed to create, store, process, and manage data sets that start in the hundreds of gigabytes and grow to multiple terabyte size are all too rare. It is time to change that! We have teamed up with the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) to create the new AstroCompute in the Cloud grant […]

provides secure and durable data storage at extremely low cost (as little as $0.01 per gigabyte per month). Each item stored in Glacier is known as an archive, and can be as large as 40 terabytes. Archives are stored in vaults, each of which can store as many archives as desired. Today we are giving […]

Thousands of customers use to build popular applications for Gaming (Battle Camp), Mobile (The Simpsons Tapped Out), Ad-tech (AdRoll), Internet-of-Things (Earth Networks) and Modern Web applications (SmugMug). We have made some improvements to DynamoDB in order to make it more powerful and easier to use. Here’s what’s new: You can now add, edit, and retrieve […]

Let’s take a quick look at what happened in AWS-land last week: Monday, April 20 We announced the NOAA Big Data Project. The discussed the AWS Toolkit for Eclipse Integration with AWS OpsWorks. The continued with the re:viewing re:Invent series with a focus on the architecture track. The Cloud Academy Blog discussed Virtual Private Clouds […]

Enterprise IT architects and system administrators often ask me how to go about moving their existing compute infrastructure to . Invariably, they have spent a long time creating and polishing their existing system configurations and are hoping to take advantage of this work when they migrate to the cloud. We introduced quite some time ago […]

My colleagues are already hard at work on the services, presentations, sessions, signage, clothing, and entertainment for 2015. As I announced last month, re:Invent will be taking place from October 6 to 9 this year at The Venetian in Las Vegas. Registration will open at 9:00 AM Pacific Time on May 12th, just a couple […]

I am happy to be able to announce that we have entered into a research agreement with the to explore sustainable models for increasing the amount of open NOAA data that is made available via the cloud. The AWS program hosts large collections of public data that anyone can access for free. We started this […]

I’m playing catch-up today in order to make sure that you know about some releases that have gone out over the last couple of weeks.  You can now create custom CloudFormation resources by calling functions. We added support for some additional Auto Scaling and RDS resources. We also updated our support for some existing CloudFront, […]