AWS Senior VP Andy Jassy Announces New Services
Coming out of the recent AWS Global Partner Summit (re:Invent), we received some exciting news from Amazon Web Services Senior VP Andy Jassy: AWS is adding several new services to its growing...
View ArticleAWS as Alternative to Windows Server 2003
With Microsoft ending its support of its own Windows Server 2003 back in July 2015, users still running critical operations on this OS are left with little choice but to find alternatives. A...
View ArticleAWS CTO Werner Vogels Introduces More Upcoming Services
Things get even more exciting as the re:Invent second keynote speaker, AWS Chief Technical Officer Dr. Werner Vogels, announces additional new services. EC2 Instance Update — X1 and T2.Nano Later this...
View ArticleHow to Build your Business on the Internet of Things
The recent AWS re:Invent convention gave us great insight on what’s next for the IT industry. The message is very clear: get ready for the Internet of Things. IoT refers to the technology wherein...
View ArticleAWS Workspaces Supports BYOL, Chromebooks, Encryption
Amazon Workspaces allows you to gives users to access documents and other files using their own supported machines and mobile devices. Now, Workspaces has been upgraded with the following new features:...
View ArticleEC2 Update – Scalable Run Command
AWS has updated its Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) service with a new Run command that lets you easily manage your instances, no matter how many they are. Run works on all Windows instances through the...
View Article7 Sci-fi Technologies Made Real by the Cloud
Ever since Back to the Future Day happened last October, people have been comparing how well our current technology matched up with our last century’s expectations. While our prototypes for...
View ArticleAWS CloudTrail: Encryption & Log File Integrity Verification
AWS CloudTrail records your API calls and provides log files for verification and auditing purposes. AWS is enhancing this service by supporting two new features: Encryption for SSE-KMS and Log File...
View ArticleAmazon EMR 4.1.0 Released
Amazon Elastic MapReduce makes it easy and cost-effective to run and manage vast amounts of data. It simplifies distributed data processing frameworks, allowing you to distribute data across scalable...
View ArticleRoute 53 Enhancements
Providing a highly scalable Domain Name Service (DNS), Amazon Route 53 can connect user requests to several AWS service infrastructures, including EC2 instances, load balancers, and S3 buckets. AWS has...
View ArticleAmazon SES Can Receive and Process Email
Launched in 2011, the Amazon Simple Email Server service has helped AWS customer send millions upon millions of marketing and transactional emails every year. Now, AWS is providing a new feature to...
View ArticleAWS Success Story – Rice Genome Project
Just how powerful is AWS Simple Storage Service (S3)? How about holding the complete genome sequence of over 3,000 varieties of rice? The 3,000 Rice Genome sequencing project aims to sequence the 3,024...
View ArticleAmazon Linux AMI
In support of all Linux users, AWS is releasing the Linux AMI version 2015.09, a Linux image for Amazon EC2. This new major version is supported in all regions and on all current generation of EC2...
View ArticleAWS WAF Provides Added Security
Admins who regularly check their web server logs will most likely view tons of illegal requests from unknown parties, requests that could have attacked your websites vulnerabilities had they pushed...
View ArticleEC2 Spot Blocks Available for Defined-Duration
EC2 Spot instances, as you probably know, allows clients to use instances on the AWS spot market and is a great fit for people who don’t need computing capacity on a regular basis. It also works for...
View ArticleAWS Device Farm Updates
The AWS Device Farm launched back in July provides the ability to test native and hybrid applications on both iOS and Android. A new update now allows you to test browser-based applications on both...
View ArticleAmazon VPC and VPN Updates
The Amazon Virtual Private Cloud lets you securely isolate a portion of the AWS cloud for your own private use. By using a Virtual Private Network connection, you can link your VPC to an existing...
View ArticleAWS Cost Explorer: Saved Reports
If you’ve ever wondered how much it would cost your business to use AWS, the Cost Explorer tool should help you answer that question. Cost Explorer’s filtering and grouping function allows you to...
View ArticleAWS SDK for GO Ver 1.0
AWS is proud to say that the SDK for GO is now live at version 1.0 and ready for production use. New features for the SDK include: Sessions — lets you share configuration and request handlers between...
View ArticleCloudFormation Designer Update
The AWS CloudFormation service lets you easily manage your collection of related AWS services and resources by collating them into stacks. CloudFormation also uses templates to readily display and tie...
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