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Many AWS customers run some of their mission-critical applications on a periodic (daily, weekly, or monthly), part-time basis. Here are some of the kinds of things that they like to do: A bank or mutual fund performs Value at Risk calculations every weekday afternoon. A phone company does a multi-day bill calculation run at the […]

Does your operations team practice ChatOps? This brand-new term refers to the practice of conversation-driven operations using one or more “bots” that have the ability to insert notifications & status reports into the conversation and to respond to commands. The chat environment provides real-time communication, a coherent shared view, multi-user access from web and mobile […]

We continue to announce, build, and launch additional AWS regions as our customer base becomes larger, more diverse, and accustomed to running many different types of workloads in the cloud. Hello, Canada I am happy to announce that we will be opening an AWS region in Montreal, Québec, Canada in the coming year. This region […]

Let’s take a quick look at what happened in AWS-land last week: Monday January 4 We announced that Amazon WorkMail is Now Generally Available. The talked about Creating a Culture of Experimentation Enabled by the Cloud. CloudCheckr shared some Cloud Predictions for 2016. Cloud Academy explored Six Cloud Computing Myths. Cloud Zone talked about Provisioning […]

The AWS IoT Mega Contest (brought to you by AWS and the great team at Hackster) has been extended until January 31, 2016. We already have over 850 participants, nearly 300 project ideas, and 45 projects, but there’s still time (and room) for more. As the name suggests, we’re looking for Internet of Things projects […]

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) […]