• AWS Start-Up Challenge 2011 Finalists and Semi-Finalists

    Updated: 2011-11-04 00:42:56
    Here’s a quick quiz: What does a social gaming site for young women have in common with a cancer research app? Not sure? Then how about this: What does a mobile video app have in common with a car sharing...

  • Amazon Simple Notification Service Now Supports SMS

    Updated: 2011-11-03 04:26:30
    Today we are adding another transport protocol to the Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS). You can now subscribe a US phone number to an SNS topic. After the subscription has been confirmed, notifications sent to the topic will be delivered...

  • New - AWS Virtual (Software) Multi-Factor Authentication - RFC 6238 Support

    Updated: 2011-11-02 23:51:14
    As you might already know, you can enable AWS Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA for short) for your AWS account and your Identity and Access Management (IAM) users to provide an additional level of security. Once you have enabled MFA for an...

  • New Whitepaper: Using AWS for Disaster Recovery

    Updated: 2011-10-28 18:57:03
    Disaster recovery (DR) is one of most important use cases that we hear from our customers. Having your own DR site in the cloud ready and on standby, without having to pay for the hardware, power, bandwidth, cooling, space and...

  • New - AWS Management Console Support for the Simple Email Service

    Updated: 2011-10-27 02:14:05
    The Amazon Simple Email Service gives you a simple and cost-effective way to send any volume of bulk or transactional email. We send millions of emails on behalf of thousands of Amazon SES customers each and every day. You can...

  • Elastic Load Balancing: More IPv6 Support, More Metrics, More IP Addresses

    Updated: 2011-10-27 02:12:06
    We have made some improvements to our Elastic Load Balancing product: IPv6 is now supported in the Asia Pacific (Singapore) and Asia Pacific (Tokyo) regions. Each Elastic Load Balancer reports six new metrics to Amazon CloudWatch. The DNS entry associated...

  • New - Use Your Microsoft BizSpark Licenses on AWS

    Updated: 2011-10-24 21:07:39
    It is a great time to be a software developer with an entrepreneurial mindset. You can get access to development tools, startup resources, and much more at no charge or at a very low cost these days. You don't need...

  • IT-Lifeline - Disaster Recovery Using AWS

    Updated: 2011-10-21 16:38:17
    Matt Gerber,CEO of managed service provider IT-Lifeline spent some time talking about AWS on camera. Here's the full video: Matt enumerates the three main benefits that AWS provides him: cost, elasticity, and time to market (sometimes saving 6 months to...

  • Run Microsoft SQL Server 2012 ("Denali") on AWS Now

    Updated: 2011-10-21 14:53:47
    Microsoft SQL Server 2012 (code named "Denali") has a lot of really intriguing features including high availability, columnstore indexes, self-service Business Intelligence, faster full-text search, data visualization, and improved security and compliance. Consult the feature guide for more information. In...

  • Amazon Simple Queue Service: Batch Operations, Delay Queue, and Message Timers

    Updated: 2011-10-21 03:43:30
    We have added some nice new features to the Simple Queue Service. You can now use batch operations to send and delete messages with greater efficiency and at a lower cost. You can make any of your queues into a...

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