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Amazon RDS now supports PostgreSQL 9.4.1

Domain Name Registration and Geo DNS for Route 53

Amazon Route 53 is a highly available and scalable Domain Name Service (DNS), including a powerful Health Checking Service. Today we are extending Route 53 with support for domain name registration and management and Geo DNS. We are also reducing the price for Route 53 queries! Let’s take a closer look at each one of…

In the Works – AWS Region in Milan, Italy

Late last month I announced that we are working on an AWS Region in South Africa. Today I would like to let you know that we are also building an AWS Region in Italy and plan to open it up in early 2020. Milan in 2020 The upcoming Europe (Milan) Region will have three Availability […]

Amazon announces AWS GovCloud for U.S. government agencies

Discover more about what's new at AWS with Announcing AWS GovCloud (US)

Prime Day 2017: 12.9M DynamoDB requests per second

The third annual Prime Day set another round of records for global orders, topping Black Friday and Cyber Monday, making it the biggest day in Amazon retail history. Over the course of the 30 hour event, tens of millions of Prime members purchased things like Echo Dots, Fire tablets, programmable pressure cookers…

Time, Randomness, and a $100k Prize to Forever Change Blockchain

Announcing an open source hardware competition to change how blocks (as in blockchain) are produced using far less energy. And on the way, finding a solution to move from proof of work to proof of stake.

Amazon QuickSight Now Generally Available

Discover more about what's new at AWS with Amazon QuickSight Now Generally Available

Lumberyard and Amazon GameLift and Twitch for Games on AWS

Building world-class games is a very difficult, time-consuming, and expensive process. The audience is incredibly demanding. They want engaging, social play that spans a wide variety of desktop, console, and mobile platforms. Due to the long lead time inherent in the game development and distribution process, the…

Jedi: We will continue to protest this politically corrupted contract award

Announcing VM Import for Amazon EC2

Discover more about what's new at AWS with Announcing VM Import for Amazon EC2

New EC2 M3 Instance Sizes and Lower Prices for S3 and EBS

Discover more about what's new at AWS with Announcing New Amazon EC2 M3 Instance Sizes and Lower Prices for Amazon S3 and Amazon EBS

AWS ELB adds support for Host-based routing on Application Load Balancer

Discover more about what's new at AWS with Elastic Load Balancing Adds Support for Host-based Routing and Increased Rules on its Application Load Balancer

Amazon speaks up about WikiLeaks decision

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Amazon EC2 High-Memory Instances (34 GB, 68 GB)

Discover more about what's new at AWS with Announcing Amazon EC2 High-Memory Instances