AWS News Blog

Let’s take a quick look at what happened in AWS-land last week: Monday, May 11 We announced that you can now Quickly Filter Data in Amazon Redshift Using Interleaved Sorting. We announced a New VPC Endpoint for Amazon S3. We announced that Amazon Redshift and Amazon RDS Now Support Encryption via AWS Key Management Service […]

allows you to connect your AWS resources to an existing on-premises Active Directory or to set up a new, standalone directory in the AWS Cloud (see my post, New AWS Directory Service, to learn more). Until today, all operations on a Directory were initiated through the . This was convenient, but was not ideal for […]

Unity is a popular cross-platform game development environment. You can build your 2D or 3D game once using C# and then run it on many different platforms and devices. Now Available Today we are launching the AWS Mobile SDK for Unity. This new SDK comes in the form of Unity packages that contain .NET classes. […]

Best practices for IT security are often easier to define than to implement. We are doing our best to define best practices at the AWS Security Center, backed up with services and security features that are as easy to implement as possible. In this vein, I want to make sure that you are fully aware […]

We want to do our part to help educational institutions all over the world train and graduate students who are ready, willing, and able to power the cloud-powered world of tomorrow! The initiative will provide students and educators with four important resources: Grants of AWS credits for use in courses and projects. Free content to […]

I am pleased to be able to announce that registration for AWS re:Invent 2015 is now open! This is our fourth annual event and I expect that it, like its predecessors, will sell out. With less than 5 months to go before the October 6th opening, preparation for the services, presentations, keynotes, hackathons, and entertainment […]

Let’s take a quick look at what happened in AWS-land last week: Monday, May 4 We updated the Zero Administration AWS Lambda Based Amazon Redshift Database Loader to version 2.0. The Roadtrippers Dev Team wrote about Lambda: Bees with Frickin’ Laser Beams. The published Part 2 of an article on Generating Amazon S3 Pre-signed URLs with […]

My colleague Tina Adams sent a guest post to introduce another cool and powerful feature for . — Jeff; Amazon Redshift, our fully managed data warehouse service, makes it fast and easy to analyze all your data. You can get started with a 160GB cluster for free for 2 months, and scale to a couple […]

I would like to tell you about a new AWS feature that will allow you to make even better use of and . As you probably know, provides you with secure, durable, and highly scalable object storage. You can use the to create a logically isolated section of the AWS Cloud, with full control over […]

The provides you with seamless, centralized control over your encryption keys. As I noted when we launched the service (see my post, New AWS Key Management Service, for more information), this service gives you a new option for data protection and relieves you of many of the more onerous scalability and availability issues that inevitably […]