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- Announcing AWS Lambda Web Functions
- The AWS MCP Server is now generally available | AWS News Blog
I've commented about platforms making command-line interfaces to allow agents to use them, and shifting to agents as their customer. MCP is an evolution and secondary channel to…
- Four security principles for agentic AI systems | AWS Security Blog
- Introducing OpenClaw on Amazon Lightsail to run your autonomous private AI agents | AWS News Blog
AWS announced OpenClaw as an Amazon Lightsail blueprint — spin up a pre-configured private AI agent instance with Amazon Bedrock in minutes, no manual install required. Directly…
- Amazon S3 Vectors now generally available with increased scale and performance | AWS News Blog
Vector storage is incredibly important with AI applications and S3 Vectors has incredible performance. You can now store and search across up to 2 billion vectors in a single…
- Introducing AWS Lambda Managed Instances: Serverless simplicity with EC2 flexibility | AWS News Blog
Lambda continues to grow in interesting and surprising ways. You can now effectively create your own compute pool to have Lambda invocations run against, which means you can…
- Summary of the Amazon DynamoDB Service Disruption in Northern Virginia (US-EAST-1) Region
On Monday, Oct 20, AWS had a massive failure that took many services across the Internet offline. The core issue was a failure in DNS automation. Many of the largest AWS services…
- Introducing Amazon Bedrock AgentCore: Securely deploy and operate AI agents at any scale (preview) | AWS News Blog
- Handling billions of invocations – best practices from AWS Lambda | AWS Compute Blog
Lambda is amazing for building cloud scale applications, but what to do when the demands of your application are beyond fundamental cloud account limits?
- Simplify and enhance Amazon S3 static website hosting with AWS Amplify Hosting
Good add by AWS to make it even easier to host sites.
- Optimizing Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS) for speed and scale | AWS News Blog
- Fairness in multi-tenant systems
Implementing rate-limiting and quotas on APIs is a harder problem than it may seem.
- Failover Controls for Amazon S3 Multi-Region Access Points | AWS News Blog
Much needed new feature for S3 Multi-Regionality. The Replication visual is pretty cool looking.
- Summary of the AWS Service Event in the Northern Virginia (US-EAST-1) Region
- AWS Step Functions Supports 200 AWS Services To Enable Easier Workflow Automation | AWS News Blog
This is a pretty massive expansion in capability for Step Functions. Today AWS Step Functions expands the number of supported AWS services from 17 to over 200 and AWS API Actions…
- AWS Step Functions Workflow Studio | AWS News Blog
Lambda and Step Functions are incredible cloud capabilities, and this new capability should lower the barrier to building step functions significantly. Today, we are launching…
- AWS Shield threat landscape review: 2020 year-in-review | AWS Security Blog
Ignore the half of this that is an advertisement for Shield. Notable that DDoS attacks continue to be very prevalent.
- Introducing Amazon S3 Object Lambda – Use Your Code to Process Data as It Is Being Retrieved from S3 | AWS News Blog
Interesting new AWS capability to modify data as it is accessed in S3. These could be useful to keep data duplication down. It would seem critical that you make these Lamba…
- The Chief People Officer—The CIO’s Partner in Change | AWS Cloud Enterprise Strategy Blog
Great highlight on how technology leaders, who are always affecting organizational change, can partner with the CPO, or head of Human Resources, in their companies.
- AWS re:Invent: Top Announcements for 2020 — AWS News
Overall index to various blog posts on every new thing being announced at AWS re:Invent. The volume of announcements that come from this event are always overwhelming. And this…
- Introducing Amazon Honeycode – Build Web & Mobile Apps Without Writing Code | AWS News Blog
This new service from AWS looks interesting, but I haven't built anything with it so I'll hold my full opinion. It reminds me in some ways of Airtable, which I have built a couple…
- Announcing Amazon AppFlow | AWS News Blog
Interesting new service from AWS. Amazon AppFlow allows you to automate the data flows between AWS services and SaaS applications such as Salesforce, Zendesk, and ServiceNow. SaaS…
- The Agile Organisation: Changing our Worldview | AWS Cloud Enterprise Strategy Blog
Interesting take on enterprise agility focused on a general audience. To date, only 4% of companies believe they have fully embraced an Agile culture, with many more working…
- Letting Go: Enabling Autonomy in Teams | AWS Cloud Enterprise Strategy Blog
- Amazon API Gateway Offers Faster, Cheaper, Simpler APIs Using HTTP APIs (Preview)
This seems to simplify much of the complexity of building API’s and get you going right away. HTTP APIs simplify the API building experience for the most common features needed to…
- Migration Complete – Amazon’s Consumer Business Just Turned off its Final Oracle Database | AWS News Blog
Main thing to highlight here, is even with all the investment that a company like Amazon could put on this effort, it took years and years. A good reminder of how difficult it is…
- Amazon Forecast – Now Generally Available | AWS News Blog
Interesting new offering that could bring more sophisticated forecasting capabilities to a larger audience.
- Amazon EventBridge – Event-Driven AWS Integration for your SaaS Applications | AWS News Blog
- Amazon S3 Path Deprecation Plan – The Rest of the Story | AWS News Blog
Changing how S3 handles paths is a huge migration effort for a large part of the internet.
- Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB Compatibility): Fast, Scalable, and Highly Available | AWS News Blog
I've been wondering for a long time when AWS would come out with an answer for MongoDB. They must not have been able to reach any deal with MongoDB so developed a compatible…
- AWS Toolkits for PyCharm, IntelliJ (Preview), and Visual Studio Code (Preview) | AWS News Blog
Nice tooling to make it even easier to build Lambda functions in IDEs.
- Amazon Quantum Ledger Database
Amazon introduced this highlighting that it was a technology they built in-house and are now making available to the public. It looks interesting. Amazon QLDB is a new class of…
- Amazon Textract | Extract Text & Data | AWS
Pulling text data out of forms isn't glamorous, but it’s an important problem and one that a service should do very well.
- AWS DeepRacer – Go Hands-On with Reinforcement Learning at re:Invent | AWS News Blog
How do you get a bunch of developers to learn machine learning techniques? Give them a cool 1:18th scale autonomous car and have them build self-driving code for it! This is a…
- Amazon CloudWatch Logs Insights – Fast, Interactive Log Analytics | AWS News Blog
Amazon will continue to make log analytics better. Companies like SumoLogic and even Splunk will need to continue to invest to stay ahead.
- Amazon FSx for Lustre | AWS News Blog
Shared file systems are a pain to do well, and are often times not a great solution, but sometimes they are needed. Doing them fast is even harder. Grid computing applications…
- Introducing AWS App Mesh - Service Mesh for Microservices on AWS
Istio by another name.
- Amazon’s own ‘Machine Learning University’ now available to all developers | AWS Machine Learning Blog
Joining the ranks of other companies sharing internal training materials publicly, Amazon is now making their ‘Machine Learning University]( https://aws.training/machinelearning )…
- Amazon EKS – Now Generally Available | AWS News Blog
- 5 Steps to Building a Culture of Security | AWS Cloud Enterprise Strategy Blog
Some great advice on making your processes embody security objectives.
- Announcing General Availability of Amazon EC2 Bare Metal Instances
- How to centralize DNS management in a multi-account environment — AWS Security Blog
- The Critical Missing Piece of DevOps…And How to Find It | AWS Cloud Enterprise Strategy Blog
Great article highlighting the challenges between vertical and horizontal alignment of work. One view of DevOps would leave no central service to manage processes. This is maybe…
- AWS Documentation is Now Open Source and on GitHub —AWS News Blog
Great idea from AWS! As fast as they are releasing new services I’m sure that it is a huge challenge to keep the documentation current. This should help ensure that any issues or…
- Amazon Comprehend – Continuously Trained Natural Language Processing | AWS News Blog
AWS re:Invent 📣 → I’m sure this has some great use cases around sentiment analysis but the surveillance capabilities creep me out.
- Amazon SageMaker – Accelerating Machine Learning | AWS News Blog
AWS re:Invent 📣 → Picking models for machine learning training is an often overlooked complexity with doing this right. This bundles that into one tool and should make it easier.…
- In The Works – Amazon Aurora Serverless | AWS News Blog
AWS re:Invent 📣 → What is a Serverless database? I’m not sure I know, but the idea of a database that has no cost other than storage when it’s idle is pretty amazing for certain…
- Amazon Transcribe – Accurate Speech To Text At Scale | AWS News Blog
AWS re:Invent 📣 → It just got significantly easier to add speech-to-text capabilities to various applications.
- S3 Select and Glacier Select – Retrieving Subsets of Objects | AWS News Blog
AWS re:Invent 📣 → Wow, this is pretty cool. Take a bunch of data and dump it into an S3 bucket and then execute SQL-like select commands against that data. This enables some very…
- Introducing AWS Fargate – Run Containers without Managing Infrastructure | AWS News Blog
AWS re:Invent 📣 → New offering from AWS that promises to deal with the backend of container orchestration.
- Amazon Elastic Container Service for Kubernetes | AWS News Blog
AWS re:Invent 📣 → Happy to see AWS supporting Kubernetes natively! This is a first step that should result in a better solution for customers that are trying to navigate through…
- Amazon Neptune – A Fully Managed Graph Database Service | AWS News Blog
AWS re:Invent 📣 → Graph databases are a bear to pick, use and run. AWS offering a cloud hosted graph database will hopefully address all of these issues. There are a large number…
- Keeping Time With Amazon Time Sync Service | AWS News Blog
AWS re:Invent 📣 → AWS offering an internal NTP service makes total sense. I would imagine that NTP traffic alone for AWS could be significant to other time servers.
- Announcing Alexa for Business: Using Amazon Alexa’s Voice Enabled Devices for Workplaces | AWS News Blog
AWS re:Invent 📣 → I actually bought an Echo for us to try and use in our operations area. Idea was to make some read-only data available via voice. It didn't go anywhere in large…
- New – AWS SAM Local (Beta) – Build and Test Serverless Applications Locally — AWS Blog
This looks very useful for people building serverless apps on Lambda. Putting the code in a container is definitely nice, but the ability to simulate invokes from other AWS…
- Chalice – 1.0.0 GA Release | AWS Developer Blog
Another serverless framework, this time from AWS themselves.
- AWS CloudFormation Supports Multiple Account and Region Provisioning with StackSet
Nice add to the AWS toolset and clearly a win as customers, particularly large ones, use AWS accounts as an ultimate isolation and cost management tool.
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- AWS Lambda sessions at re:Invent 2016 | AWS Compute Blog
- New – AWS Personal Health Dashboard – Status You Can Relate To | AWS Blog
- How the Amazon SQS FIFO API Works | AWS Developer Blog
We have just introduced FIFO queues for Amazon SQS. These queues offer strictly ordered message delivery and exactly-once message processing. The FIFO API builds on the SQS API…
- New AWS Quick Starts for Atlassian JIRA Software and Bitbucket Data Center
Today I would like to tell you about a pair of Quick Start guides that were developed in collaboration with APN Advanced Technology Partner (and DevOps competency holder)…
- New – Upload AWS Cost
Many AWS customers have been asking us for a way to programmatically analyze their Cost and Usage Reports (read New
- New – AWS Application Load Balancer | AWS Blog
We launched Elastic Load Balancing (ELB) for AWS in the spring of 2009 (see New Features for Amazon EC2: Elastic Load Balancing, Auto Scaling, and Amazon CloudWatch to see just…
- Preview the Python Serverless Microframework for AWS | AWS Developer Blog
Today the AWS Developer Tools team is excited to announce the preview of the Python Serverless Microframework for AWS.
- AWS Database Migration Service — AWS Official Blog
If so, the new AWS Database Migration Service (DMS) is for you! First announced last fall at AWS re:Invent, our customers have already used it to migrate over 1,000 on-premises…
- Using Amazon API Gateway with microservices deployed on Amazon ECS
One convenient way to run microservices is to deploy them as Docker containers. Docker containers are quick to provision, easily portable, and provide process isolation. Amazon…
- SquirrelBin: A Serverless Microservice Using AWS Lambda | AWS Compute Blog
With the recent release of Amazon API Gateway, developers can now create custom RESTful APIs that trigger AWS Lambda functions, allowing for truly serverless backends that include…
- New – Access Resources in a VPC from Your Lambda Functions
Your Lambda functions can now access Amazon Redshift data warehouses, Amazon ElastiCache clusters, Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) instances, and service endpoints that…
- AWS Service Terms
However, this restriction will not apply in the event of the occurrence (certified by the United States Centers for Disease Control or successor body) of a widespread viral…
- Scheduled Reserved Instances
Our new Scheduled Reserved Instances are a great fit for use cases of this type (and many more). They allow you to reserve capacity on a recurring basis with a daily, weekly, or…
- Longer EC2 Resource IDs Now Available
Effective today, you can opt in to the new format for EC2 instances and EC2 reservations. Each reservation represents the results of a single instance launch request, and can be…
- In the Works – AWS Region in Canada
We continue to announce, build, and launch additional AWS regions as our customer base becomes larger, more diverse, and accustomed to running many different types of workloads in…
- AWS Case Study: Brooks Brothers
Using AWS to deploy and operate our SAP environments, we can be more nimble, which opens up many more possibilities for our business. We can get new initiatives to production…
- New – Managed NAT (Network Address Translation) Gateway for AWS | AWS Official Blog
Performing this translation at scale can be challenging. In order to simplify the task (and, as usual, to let you spend more time on your application and on your business), we are…
- Amazon API Gateway Supports API Definition Import and Export
You can now export API definitions for Amazon API Gateway. Through a new API you can export your API configurations as a Swagger file from the API Gateway Management Console. You…
- InfoWorld Review – Amazon Aurora Rocks MySQL
With this as background, I am really happy to be able to let you know that the team at InfoWorld recently put Amazon Aurora through its paces, wrote a detailed review, and named…
- AWS Lambda Launches Slack Integration Blueprints
Slack is a messaging app that makes it easy for teams to communicate with each other and with their automated systems. AWS Lambda now makes it easy to get started building…
- New – Route 53 Traffic Flow | AWS Official Blog
In order to make it easier for you to build and run cloud-based applications that embody these characteristics, we introduced a new Traffic Flow feature for Amazon Route 53 last…
- Dynamic GitHub Actions with AWS Lambda
Tim Wagner, AWS Lambda General Manager Will Gaul, AWS Lambda Software Developer GitHub webhooks allow you to easily generate notifications whenever certain actions occur. One…
- AWS Lambda Update – Python, VPC, Increased Function Duration, Scheduling, and More
- New – Amazon Elasticsearch Service | AWS Official Blog
Elasticsearch is a real-time, distributed search and analytics engine that fits nicely into a cloud environment. It is document-oriented and does not require a schema to be…
- Subscribe to AWS Public IP Address Changes via Amazon SNS
Last year we announced that the AWS Public IP Address Ranges Were Available in JSON Form. This was a quick, Friday afternoon post that turned out to be incredibly popular! Many…
- Amazon Elastic File System – Shared File Storage for Amazon EC2 | AWS Official Blog
Amazing it took this long for this to be around, but glad to see it finally here.
- Amazon Machine Learning – Make Data-Driven Decisions at Scale | AWS Official Blog
- EC2 Container Service – Long-Running Applications, Load Balancing, and More | AWS Official Blog
I am happy to be able to announce that Amazon ECS is now generally available! We have added some powerful new features including support for long-running applications, a shiny new…
- AWS Lambda – In Full Production with New Features for Mobile Devs | AWS Official Blog
Lambda is now ready for production workloads
- Amazon RDS Update – Data at Rest Encryption using AWS KMS Keys | AWS Official Blog
- The Next Generation of Dense-storage Instances for EC2 | AWS Official Blog
- Custom ODBC/JDBC Drivers and Query Visualization for Amazon Redshift | AWS Official Blog
- Amazon WorkMail – Managed Email and Calendaring in the AWS Cloud | AWS Official Blog
- Amazon EC2 Container Service (ECS) - Container Management for the AWS Cloud
- Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL Update - Read Replicas, 9.3.5 Support, Migration, Three New Extensions
- Sneak Preview - DynamoDB Streams
- Route 53 Update - Private DNS and More
- New AWS Directory Service
Today we are introducing the AWS Directory Service to address these challenges! This managed service provides two types of directories. You can connect to an existing on-premises…
- Speak to Amazon Kinesis in Python
The Amazon Kinesis team is excited to release the Kinesis Client Library (KCL) for Python developers! Developers can use the KCL to build distributed applications that process…
- Container Computing and AWS
- Amazon DynamoDB Update - JSON, Expanded Free Tier, Flexible Scaling, Larger Items
Amazon DynamoDB Amazon DynamoDB is a fast and flexible NoSQL database service for all applications that need consistent, single-digit millisecond latency at any scale. Our…
- AWS SDK for Python (Boto) Now Supports Python 3
- Amazon Simple Workflow Service
Amazon Simple Workflow (Amazon SWF) is a task coordination and state management service for cloud applications. With Amazon SWF, you can stop writing complex glue-code and state…
- Summary of the AWS Service Event in the US East Region (July 2 2012)
Power problems. Wed like to share more about the service disruption which occurred last Friday night, June 29th, in one of our Availability Zones in the US East-1 Region. The…
- AWS Architecture Center
- Summary of the Amazon EC2 and Amazon RDS Service Disruption
- AWS PCI DSS Level 1 Compliance FAQs
The AWS core infrastructure and services listed below are PCI DSS 2.0 compliant. This compliance has been validated by an authorized independent Qualified Security Assessor.
- Amazon Route 53
Amazon Route 53 is a highly available and scalable Domain Name System (DNS) web service. It is designed to give developers and businesses an extremely reliable and cost effective…
- Announcing Micro Instances for Amazon EC2
If your curious, here is Amazon's Micro announcement. /cc @tkeekley
- Amazon Elastic MapReduce
Amazon Elastic MapReduce looks interesting. Opens up some new solution paths!