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AWS re:Invent: Top Announcements for 2020
Analytics | Compute | Containers | Customer Engagement | Database | Front-end Web and Mobile | Machine Learning | Storage Last updated: 5:36 PM PST, Dec. 1. Below are the major launch and preview announcements happening at re:Invent 2020, organized by category. We’ll update this page daily over the course of the event, which takes place Nov. […]
Read MoreAWS On Air – re:Invent Weekly Streaming Schedule
Last updated: 3:12 pm (PST), December 2. Join AWS On Air throughout re:Invent (Dec 1 – Dec 17) for daily livestreams with news, announcements, demos, and interviews with experts across industry and technology. To get started, head over to register for re:Invent. Then, use the schedule below to find out when to tune-in. Time (PST) […]
Read Morere:Invent 2020 Liveblog: Partner Keynote
Join us Thursday, Dec. 3, from 7:45-9:30 a.m., for the AWS Partner Keynote with Doug Yeum, head of Worldwide Channels and Alliances; Sandy Carter, vice president, Global Public Sector Partners and Programs; and Dave McCann, vice president, AWS Migration, Marketplace, and Control Services. Developer Advocates Steve Roberts and Martin Beeby will be liveblogging all the […]
Read MoreAmazon S3 Update – Strong Read-After-Write Consistency
When we launched S3 back in 2006, I discussed its virtually unlimited capacity (“…easily store any number of blocks…”), the fact that it was designed to provide 99.99% availability, and that it offered durable storage, with data transparently stored in multiple locations. Since that launch, our customers have used S3 in an amazing diverse set […]
Read MoreNew – Amazon S3 Replication Adds Support for Multiple Destination Buckets
Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) supports many types of replication, including S3 Same-Region Replication (SRR), which launched in 2019 and S3 Cross-Region Replication (CRR), which has been around since 2015. Today, we are happy to announce S3 Replication support for multiple destination buckets. S3 Replication now gives you the ability to replicate data from one […]
Read MoreNew AWS Amplify Admin UI Helps You Develop App Backends, No Cloud Experience Required
Today AWS Amplify announces new Admin UI to configure an application backend, and manage app users and content outside the AWS console. This new feature makes it easier to use AWS services and accelerates the development and management of full-stack web and mobile apps. We launched AWS Amplify in November 2018, and since then it […]
Read MoreAmazon EKS Distro: The Kubernetes Distribution Used by Amazon EKS
Our customers have told us that they want to focus on building innovative solutions for their customers, and focus less on the heavy lifting of managing Kubernetes infrastructure. That is why Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) has been so popular; we remove the burden of managing Kubernetes while our customers glean the benefits. However, not […]
Read MoreIn the Works – 3 More AWS Local Zones in 2020, and 12 More in 2021
We launched the first AWS Local Zone in Los Angeles last December, and added a second one (also in Los Angeles) in August of 2020. In my original post, I quoted Andy Jassy’s statement that we would be giving consideration to adding Local Zones in more geographic areas. Our customers are using the EC2 instances […]
Read Morere:Invent 2020 – Preannouncements for Tuesday, December 1
Andy Jassy just gave you a hint about some upcoming AWS launches, and I’ll have more to say about them when they are ready. To tide you over until then, here’s a summary of what he pre-announced: Smaller AWS Outpost Form Factors – We are introducing two new sizes of AWS Outposts, suitable for locations […]
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