AWS has had a presence in Japan for a long time! We opened the Asia Pacific (Tokyo) Region in March 2011, added a third Availability Zone (AZ) in 2012, and a fourth in 2018. Since that launch, customers in Japan and around the world have used the region to host an incredibly wide variety of […]

As a developer, I have been hearing a lot of stories lately about how companies have solved their business problems using machine learning (ML), so one of my goals for 2021 is to learn more about it. For the last few years I have been using artificial intelligence (AI) services such as, Amazon Rekognition, Amazon […]

I am pleased to share that the AWS Asia Pacific (Osaka) Region has transitioned from a Local Region into a standard region with three Availability Zones (AZs), a broader (and growing) service portfolio, free tier option, and new pricing options. The region joins the existing 25 AZs in eight AWS Regions across Asia Pacific in […]

AWS Amplify is a set of tools and services for building secure, scalable mobile and web applications. Currently, Amplify supports iOS, Android, and JavaScript (web and React Native) and is the quickest and easiest way to build applications powered by Amazon Web Services (AWS). Flutter is Google’s UI toolkit for building natively compiled mobile, web, […]

Today I am happy to announce that AWS Outposts customers can now make local snapshots of their Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) volumes, making it easy to meet data residency and local backup requirements. AWS Outposts is a fully managed service that extends AWS infrastructure, services, APIs, and tools to virtually any datacenter, co-location space, […]

At AWS re:Invent, we pre-announced that AWS PrivateLink for Amazon S3 was coming soon, and soon has arrived — this new feature is now generally available. AWS PrivateLink provides private connectivity between Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) and on-premises resources using private IPs from your virtual network. Way back in 2015, S3 was the first […]

2021 is going to be a launchpad for change, and here’s what’s coming 2020 was a year unlike any other. Businesses large and small, governments new and old all had to completely change what they do and how they operate. Helping us to manage this dramatic change was technology. Whether it was Blackboard continuing our […]

Our customers never stop building. And because they never stop, their need for security, availability, performance, scalability, and flexibility over how they choose to run their workloads never stop. At AWS, we are customer obsessed, so we never stop building either. That is why we have created more than 175 services, which we offer from […]

Growing up in the Netherlands, American football was largely a foreign concept to me. My version of football was The Beautiful Game, or as most Americans know it, soccer. Football, futbol, soccer, or whatever else you call it, will always be something I’m deeply passionate about, especially my hometown team, Ajax. When I joined Amazon […]

D Watson-Parris and NASA Worldview As the COVID pandemic continues to sequester many of us to our homes, our everyday behaviors have come mostly to a collective halt. The immediate effects are obvious, as cities, roads, and public spaces have emptied. Reports of nature intermingling with spaces once claimed by humans have amazed audiences worldwide. […]