AWS Open Source Blog

This open source project comes from our customer community. It was developed by Peak Games to assist with their own S3 workflow, and includes features such as tab completion and built-in wild card support for files in S3 commands. Enjoy! – Deirdré Background Up until now, working on multiple objects on Amazon S3 from the […]

I’ve recorded several podcasts over the years, and just had a new one published on the AWS Podcast with Simon Elisha. We mostly discussed chaos engineering, but also covered the recent work we are doing in open source. – AWS Podcast #238 A few years ago (before I joined AWS), I recorded a talk about […]

Shalom! I had the opportunity to speak at AWS Summit Tel Aviv a few weeks ago. It is always refreshing to meet our customers and learn how they are using the cloud to innovate and solve their problems. On a personal level, it’s always fun to visit a new country even after traveling to 40+ […]

Open Source News from the AWS Summit San Francisco The AWS Summit in San Francisco on April 4th saw a slew of announcements, including some in open source: SAM Implementation is now open source! “In 2016, we launched SAM and opened up the SAM specification on this Github repo to invite collaborators. We’ve loved your […]

September 8, 2021: Amazon Elasticsearch Service has been renamed to Amazon OpenSearch Service. Visit the website to learn more. Need for an improved Korean analyzer in Amazon Elasticsearch Service (AES) Processing content for search in Asian languages such as Chinese, Japanese, and Korean presents unique challenges. Typical processing done by a search engine, such as […]

AWS 2018 索诺马开源领袖峰会 The Linux Foundation’s Open Source Leadership Summit (OSLS) was held this year in Sonoma, California. The summit offered a great opportunity for collaboration, learning, and sharing. The venue was chosen to help the recovery of a local community devastated by recent calamitous fires. I presented a talk on the growth of open […]

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 […]

中文版 by Tapabrata Pal AWS customers have created many interesting and useful open source projects which should reach a wider audience. I’m very happy to be able to promote them on this blog. Here we feature a guest post by Tapabrata (Topo) Pal of Capital One. – Adrian Capital One is a top digital bank […]

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 […]

We all want to build reliable systems, and some applications are more critical than others. However, how do you know you have actually built a reliable system? You have to test it and exercise its ability to be resilient to various types of failure. Unfortunately, the error handling code and failure handling procedures are usually […]