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AWS Week in Review – October 8, 2012

Let’s take a quick look at what happened in AWS-land last week: Monday, October 8 Our friends at AWS Partner 8KMiles released a new presentation, Email Architecture using Amazon SES. Tuesday, October 9 We added two new checks to the AWS Trusted Advisor – S3 Bucket Policy and Idle Elastic Load Balancer. I posted another […]

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NASDAQ OMX FinQloud – A Cloud Solution for the Financial Services Industry

NASDAQ OMX‘s new FinQloud is a cloud solution designed to serve the needs of the regulated financial services industry. By building FinQloud on top of AWS, NASDAQ was able to create a protected environment for regulated data that meets very stringent security, reliability, and durability requirements. Financial services firms operate in a very complex global […]

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Get Ready for the AWS Global Start-Up Challenge

I’ve been writing about and participating in our Start-Up Challenges since we launched the first one in 2007. I have always been impressed by the quality, depth, diversity, and sheer quantity of entries that we receive. I’ve long believed (and blogged about) the fact that the scalable, pay-as-you-go nature of AWS makes it an ideal […]

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Get Ready to Register for AWS re:Invent

Update (September 2021) – Changed the URL for the Venetian Hotel. Earlier this year I asked you to start thinking about attending and perhaps even speaking at AWS re:Invent, our first global customer and partner conference. The conference will be held from November 27-29 at the Venetian Hotel in Las Vegas. We’ve arranged for three […]

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AWS Week in Review – July 9, 2012

Let’s take a quick look at what happened in AWS-land last week: Monday, July 9th We updated Elastic MapReduce with better support for AMI versioning and an updated version of Hive.. Tuesday, July 10th AWS Elastic Beanstalk is now supported in two additional regions. AWS now supports MFA-protected API access. Wednesday, July 11th You can now run the Database Tuning Advisor […]

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New AWS Feature – MFA-Protected API Access

Today’s guest blogger is Kai Zhao, a Product Manager on the AWS Identity and Access Management team. Kai brings word of a powerful new IAM feature. — Jeff; Introduction In 2009, we introduced AWS Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA), a security feature that requires users to prove physical possession of an MFA device by providing a valid […]

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