Tag: Announcements

We are always looking for ways to make it faster, simpler, and more fun to develop applications of all types. Every hour that you don’t spend fiddling with hardware, tracing cables, installing operating systems or managing databases is an hour that you can spend on the unique and value-added aspects of your application. Today I’d […]

I will be in China and India starting next week. Apart from other meetings and presentations to user group, this time, I will be taking up 3-hour workshops. These workshops are targeted at architects and technical decision makers and attendees will get a chance to play with core AWS infrastructure services. If you are a […]

Mark time in your calendars for a cloud security webinar co-presented by Amazon Web Services and enStratus on Wednesday October 7, 2009 at 11:30 AM – 12:15 PM Central Time US. Sign up today Public cloud computing has evolved into a mainstream approach for building out components of an IT infrastructure. Cost saving opportunities make […]

Join the Amazon SimpleDB team for the latest in our ongoing Developer Brown Bag webinar series.  The event will feature developer Eric Lee, who will present a step-by-step tutorial on migrating a MySQL-based application to SimpleDB. The second half of the hour will focus on live Q&A.  To allow for a more thorough response to […]

If you are in Portland, OR and are interested to learn more about the recent developments in Cloud Computing, then don’t miss the following two events: Sept 16 @ 6:00 PM: Cloud Computing Panel Discussion, organized by TiE Oregon and Portland SIG. Sept 17 @ 12:00 Noon: The Act of Making Clouds, half-a-day developer-focused conference, […]

Most security standards recommend changing access credentials (passwords, certificates, or keys) on a regular basis.  However, until recently this has been a bit tricky with AWS applications requesting a new Access Key ID or X.509 certificate immediately rendered the old one invalid. Our new Access Credential Rotation feature makes it easier for you to switch […]

An additional layer of protection, once reserved for banks and large enterprises, is now available to protect your AWS account from unauthorized use. This should be especially attractive to our enterprise-level customers, but we expect customers of all types to value the additional security. Once activated for your AWS account, our new Amazon Multi-Factor Authentication […]

We’ve extended the submission deadline for the AWS Start-Up Challenge to September 25th, 2009! A number of potential entrants in Europe asked for “just a little more time” and we’re happy to oblige them. As noted previously, entrepreneurs in the United States, United Kingdom, Germany, and Israel can enter to win $50,000 in cash, another […]