Category Archives: Blog

Amazon Linux 2023, a Cloud-Optimized Linux Distribution with Long-Term Support

I am excited to announce the general availability of Amazon Linux 2023 (AL2023). AWS has provided you with a cloud-optimized Linux distribution since 2010. This is the third generation of our Amazon Linux distributions. Every generation of Amazon Linux distribution is secured, optimized for the cloud, and receives long-term AWS support. We built Amazon Linux […]

Enabling a Work-from-Anywhere Culture Starts with 5G

Work-from-anywhere has been an enduring theme since the onset of the pandemic, with 35% of surveyed Americans working remotely five days per week and 87% taking the opportunity to work flexibility if offered. Organizations are striving to equip their personnel for success regardless of where they happen to work, not only to retain their current talent, but […]

Meet the Newest AWS Heroes – March 2023

The AWS Heroes are passionate AWS experts who are dedicated to sharing their in-depth knowledge within the community. They inspire, uplift, and motivate the global AWS community, and today, we’re excited to announce and recognize the newest Heroes in 2023! Aidan Steele – Melbourne, Australia Serverless Hero Aidan Steele is a Senior Engineer at Nightvision. […]

Common DevOps Misconceptions: It’s Not A Role, But A Culture

86% of businesses say it’s important for their company to develop and produce new software fast to win market share and beat the competition, Harvard Business Review reveals. Yet, just 10% of businesses they’re successful at doing so. In particular, 50% say organizational silos are a challenge, while 49% say legacy technology is to blame. Another […]

AWS Application Composer Now Generally Available – Visually Build Serverless Applications Quickly

At AWS re:Invent 2022, we previewed AWS Application Composer, a visual builder for you to compose and configure serverless applications from AWS services backed by deployment-ready infrastructure as code (IaC). In the keynote, Dr. Werner Vogels, CTO of Amazon.com said: Developers that never used serverless before. How do they know where to start? Which services […]

Subscribe to AWS Daily Feature Updates via Amazon SNS

Way back in 2015 I showed you how to Subscribe to AWS Public IP Address Changes via Amazon SNS. Today I am happy to tell you that you can now receive timely, detailed information about releases and updates to AWS via the same, simple mechanism. Daily Feature UpdatesSimply subscribe to topic arn:aws:sns:us-east-1:692768080016:aws-new-feature-updates using the email […]