Using feature flags and other runtime configuration types is a fast-evolving technology segment. Adjusting your software behavior with a minor configuration update instead of deploying code lets teams move faster and more safely. Furthermore, releasing a feature using a feature flag allows engineering teams to turn on features to a limited set of users and […]

There’s nothing more frustrating than seeing that someone has downloaded your app and then uninstalled it. However, 80% of users will drop an app if they don’t understand how to use it, which is why usability is key. This is a critical part of the onboarding process, ensuring your customers are comfortable with your app […]

Access to technology, especially infrastructure, is one of the greatest drivers of innovation. For this reason, it’s exciting whenever AWS expands to a new region, because it means that our customers have more access to reliable, scalable, and secure cloud services. A little over a week ago, we launched the AWS Europe (Zurich) Region, and […]

Starting today, AWS AppSync supports JavaScript resolvers and provides a resolver evaluation engine to test them before publishing them to the cloud. AWS AppSync, launched in 2017, is a service that allows you to build, manage, and host GraphQL APIs in the cloud. AWS AppSync connects your GraphQL schema to different data sources using resolvers. […]

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 […]