Today, I am publishing the Distributed Computing Manifesto, a canonical document from the early days of Amazon that transformed the architecture of Amazon’s ecommerce platform. It highlights the challenges we were facing at the end of the 20th century, and hints at where we were headed. When it comes to the ecommerce side of Amazon, […]

When businesses look at technology options, they can choose between cloud-based services or Software as a Service (SaaS) for their needs. These two related solutions are similar but offer plenty of benefits for business leaders. Selecting the right technology means that you need to understand how these technologies will affect your company’s processes and infrastructure. […]

The AWS Region in Aragón, Spain, is now open. The official name is Europe (Spain), and the API name is eu-south-2. You can start using it today to deploy workloads and store your data in Spain. The AWS Europe (Spain) Region has three Availability Zones (AZ) that you can use to reliably spread your applications […]

The AWS Heroes program celebrates and recognizes builders who are making an impact within the global AWS community. As we come to the end of 2022, the program is recognizing seven individuals who are passionate about AWS, and focused on organizing and speaking at community events, mentoring, authoring content, and even preserving wildlife. Please meet […]

On today’s episode of the CloudTweaks podcast, Steve Prentice chats with Rahul Subramanyam, CEO at CloudFix and CTO at ESW Capital. He shares his insights into AWS, who came out in 2008 looking to become the plumbing for the internet. “They spent a decade building up 100,000 API’s that developers could use,” he says, but after […]

It’s now just two weeks to AWS re:Invent in Las Vegas, and the pace is picking up, both here on the News Blog, and throughout AWS as everyone get ready for the big event! I hope you get the chance to join us, and have shared links and other information at the bottom of this […]

Some time ago, I wrote to you about our plans to launch a new AWS Region in Switzerland. The wait is over. Starting today, you can now use the AWS Europe (Zurich) Region. I have been thinking a lot lately about how the cloud, and more specifically AWS, has evolved since we first launched in […]

Running and healthy and growing organization isn’t easy. There are many moving parts that contribute to business health and they need to work in unison. Accounting, unfortunately, is often seen as a necessary evil rather than a contributor to growth. But the truth is, solid accounting provides you with the data you need to run […]

I am pleased to announce today the opening of our 28th AWS Region: Europe (Zurich), also known by its API name: eu-central-2. An AWS Region allows you to deploy your most demanding workloads and replicate your applications and data across distinct groups of data centers called Availability Zones. This new Region has three fully redundant […]

Looking for a specific Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instance, Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) task, or Amazon CloudWatch log group can take some time, especially if you have many resources and use multiple AWS Regions. Today, we’re making that easier. Using the new AWS Resource Explorer, you can search through the AWS […]