Author: Deirdré Straughan

September 8, 2021: Amazon Elasticsearch Service has been renamed to Amazon OpenSearch Service. Visit the website to learn more. AWS Documentation is Now Open Source and On GitHub Earlier this year we made the AWS SDK developer guides available as GitHub repos (all found within the awsdocs organization) and invited interested parties to contribute changes […]

The Southern California Linux Expo may be the largest and longest-running regional tech conference in the US. I’ve attended almost every year since 2012; I keep coming back for great talks and the warm, welcoming, friendly (and, notably, family-friendly) crowd. The event included SCaLE Kids, “a youth focused STEM event… where the free & open […]

X-Ray SDKs AWS X-Ray Daemon Open Sourced The AWS X-Ray daemon is now open sourced and available on Github. Learn more about the daemon and AWS X-Ray. We look forward to seeing community contributions integrating X-Ray with other tools and tracing systems. AWS X-Ray SDK for Ruby (beta) AWS X-Ray SDK for Ruby (beta) is […]

Hacktoberfest, “a month-long celebration of open source software,” took place last October, before this blog was launched. A number of Amazonians participated, using the opportunity to contribute to work-related projects, passion projects, or both. At the start, their open source experience ranged from neophyte to veteran. Thanks to Hacktoberfest, all have now contributed (and earned […]

^ The Capital One Cloud Custodian Team Community Coding at the Cloud Custodian Code Day Capital One hosted their first ever community coding event at AWS re:Invent 2017, to bring current and aspiring contributors together in single location to spend a concentrated period of time hands-on with the code. Read more about it in the […]

中文版 “Leaders start with the customer and work backwards. They work vigorously to earn and keep customer trust.” These are the first sentences of Amazon’s Leadership Principles – which, yes, we really live by as a company. Everything we do starts from an expected customer benefit, and we work continuously to earn customer trust across […]

A regular roundup of open source news from us that you might have missed. Instrumenting Web Apps Using AWS X-Ray A step-by-step walkthrough for enabling X-Ray tracing in the Go programming language. Use these steps to add X-Ray tracing to any distributed application. – AWS Devops blog Now available in Amazon SageMaker: DeepAR algorithm for […]

This will be a regular feature: a roundup of open source news from us that you might have missed (especially, in the past few weeks, in the flood of other news from re:Invent!). Keynote: Cloud Native at AWS Adrian Cockcroft keynoted Cloud Native Con / Kubecon last week. AWS had made some important Kubernetes-related announcements […]

When we published our post on November 22nd about open source sessions and events coming up at re:Invent, there was a lot we couldn’t tell you – because it hadn’t yet been announced! And there were some exciting open source-related announcements at re:Invent, including FreeRTOS, EKS, Fargate, and SageMaker. Right after the announcements, new sessions […]

9:15am – 10:15am SRV302 – Building CI/CD Pipelines for Serverless Applications – Aria Level 3 Juniper 3 DAT314 – Best Practices for Running PostgreSQL on AWS – Venetian Level 4 Lando 4202 MCL406 – How Sentiment Analysis is Performed on Text Using Apache MXNet and Gluon – Aria Level 1 Bluethorn 3 10:00am – 11:00am CON409 – […]