AWS News Blog

I wrote the first post (Welcome) to this blog exactly 15 years ago today. It is safe to say that I never thought that writing those introductory sentences would lead my career in such a new and ever -challenging dimension. This seems like as good of a time as any to document and share the […]

Increasingly distributed applications, with thousands of metrics and terabytes of logs, can be a challenge to visualize and monitor. Gaining an end-to-end insight of the applications and their dependencies to enable rapid pinpointing of performance bottlenecks, operational issues, and customer impact quite often requires the use of multiple dedicated tools each presenting their own particular […]

Just a few weeks ago, I told you about 7 new languages supported by , our fully managed service for machine translation. Well, here I am again, announcing no less than 22 new languages and variants, as well as 6 additional AWS Regions where is now available. Introducing 22 New Languages And Variants That’s what I […]

A few years ago, we identified a need for an internal service to enable us to make configuration changes faster than traditional code deployments, but with the same operational scrutiny as code changes. So, we built a tool to address this need and now most teams across AWS, Amazon.com, Kindle and Alexa use this configuration […]

Building and deploying secure applications is critical work, and the threat landscape is always shifting. We’re constantly working to reduce the pain of maintaining a strong cloud security posture. Today we’re launching a new capability called that helps you protect your applications without needing to create or manage the rules directly. We’ve also made multiple […]

Today, we are happy to announce that Java and .NET support inside the (CDK) is now generally available. The is an open-source software development framework to model and provision your cloud application resources through .  also offers support for TypeScript and Python. With the , you can design, compose, and share your own custom resources […]

Just as we did for the recent AWS Storage Day, we are making several pre-re:Invent announcements related to . Here’s what I’ve got for you today: Secure Tunneling – You can set up and use secure tunnels between devices, even if they are behind restrictive network firewalls. Configurable Endpoints – You can create multiple AWS […]

extends cloud capabilities to edge devices, so that they can respond to local events in near real-time, even with intermittent connectivity. Today, we are adding two features that make it easier to build IoT solutions: Container support to deploy applications using the Greengrass Docker application deployment connector. Collect, process, and export data streams from edge devices and […]

When you manage access to resources on AWS or many other systems, you most probably use Role-Based Access Control (RBAC). When you use RBAC, you define access permissions to resources, group these permissions in policies, assign policies to roles, assign roles to entities such as a person, a group of persons, a server, an application, […]

Today, announced support for a new native data type called GEOMETRY. This new type enables ingestion, storage, and queries against two-dimensional geographic data, together with the ability to apply spatial functions to that data. Geographic data (also known as georeferenced data) refers to data that has some association with a location relative to Earth. Coordinates, […]

Hundreds of thousands of AWS customers are using . In 2017, we launched DynamoDB global tables, a fully managed solution to deploy multi-region, multi-master tables without having to build and maintain your own replication solution. When you create a global table, you specify the AWS Regions where you want the table to be available. performs […]