My previous trips to China, India, Japan, London have been super productive. I get a chance to meet tons of new people, make a lot of friends and talk about something that I am truly passionate about: Cloud Architectures and...
Security is a top priority for Amazon Web Services. Providing a trustworthy infrastructure for you to develop and deploy applications is a responsibility we take very seriously. One important aspect of gaining your trust is being open and transparent about...
You can now use the Linux kernel of your choice when you boot up an Amazon EC2 instance. We have created a set of AKIs (Amazon Kernel Images) which contain the PV-Grub loader. This loader simply chain-boots the kernel provided...
One thing that I love (among many) about working at Amazon.com is the customer-driven innovation cycle. We introduce a new product or service with a useful yet somewhat minimal feature set. We do this to get it out into the...
We're starting to wire various AWS services to each other, with interesting and powerful results. Today I'd like to talk to you about a brand new connection between Amazon S3 and the Amazon Simple Notification Service. When I introduced you...
The AWS Management Console now supports Amazon S3's Reduced Redundancy Storage. You can view and change the storage class of an S3 object in the object's Properties pane: You can also select multiple objects and change the storage class for...
We've added two new features to the Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) to make it more powerful and easier to use. Here's the scoop: IP Address Control - You can now assign the IP address of your choice to each...
A number of AWS users have been using Amazon EC2 to solve a variety of computationally intensive problems. Here's a sampling: Atbrox and Lingit use Elastic MapReduce to build data sets that help individuals with dyslexia to improve their reading...
The Casual Connect Conference will be held in Seattle later this month. The conference will start on July 20th and will end on the 22nd. We've got some big plans for this conference: The AWS team will have a booth...
The AWS Marketing Team recently moved into a shiny new building in Seattle's South Lake Union area. We'd like to spiff up and personalize our space, and thought that our AWS users and fans could help us to do so!...