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AWS Quest 2: Reaching Las Vegas
Hey AWS Questers and puzzlehunters! We’ve reached the last day of AWS Quest: The Road to re:Invent! Ozz has made it from Seattle to Las Vegas—after taking the long way via Sydney, Tokyo, Beijing, Seoul, Singapore, …
Some Unique Sessions at re:Invent 2018
We recently added three unique breakout sessions to the re:Invent Session Catalog and I want to make sure that you are aware of them. It’s rare for Distinguished Engineers like Peter Vosshall, Principal Engineers like …
Amazon S3 Block Public Access – Another Layer of Protection for Your Accounts and Buckets
Newly created Amazon S3 buckets and objects are (and always have been) private and protected by default, with the option to use Access Control Lists (ACLs) and bucket policies to grant access to other AWS …
Tamron Upgrades Its Legendary Ultra-Wide-Angle Zoom Lens: Introducing the Tamron SP 15–30mm F/2.8 Di VC USD G2
Daisuke Fujimara Ultra-Optimized Optics Create Yet Another Incredible Image The SP 15–30mm F/2.8 Di VC USD G2 (Model A041) is a high-speed ultra-wide-angle zoom lens with ultimate image quality that lets you capture all you …
New – EC2 Auto Scaling Groups With Multiple Instance Types & Purchase Options
Earlier this year I told you about EC2 Fleet, an AWS building block that makes it easy for you to create fleets that are built from a combination of EC2 On-Demand, Reserved, and Spot Instances …
AWS Quest 2 Update: The Road to re:Invent at the Midpoint
Hey, AWSQuest News Blog readers – Greg Bilsland here. I work with Jeff behind the scenes on the AWS Blog, and I’ve been collaborating with the fine folks at Lone Shark Games on AWS Quest. …
New Lower-Cost, AMD-Powered M5a and R5a EC2 Instances
From the start, AWS has focused on choice and economy. Driven by a never-ending torrent of customer requests that power our well-known Virtuous Cycle, I think we have delivered on both over the years: Choice …
Learn about AWS – November AWS Online Tech Talks
AWS Online Tech Talks are live, online presentations that cover a broad range of topics at varying technical levels. Join us this month to learn about AWS services and solutions. We’ll have experts online to help …
Join me for the Camp re:Invent Trivia Challenge
With less than 3 weeks to go until AWS re:Invent 2018, my colleagues and I are working harder than ever to produce the best educational event on the planet! With multiple keynotes, well over two …
AWS Quest 2 – The Road to re:Invent
The first AWS Quest started in May of this year. As you may recall, my trusty robot companion went to pieces after burying some clues in this blog, the AWS Podcast, and other parts of …
AWS Serverless Application Model (SAM) Command Line Interface – Build, Test, and Debug Serverless Apps Locally
Decades ago, I wrote page after page of code in 6502 assembly language. After assembling and linking the code, I would load it into memory, set breakpoints at strategic locations, and step through to make …
In the Works – AWS Region in South Africa
Last year we launched new AWS Regions in France and China (Ningxia), and announced that we are working on regions in Bahrain, Hong Kong SAR, Sweden, and a second GovCloud Region in the United States. …
Check it Out – New AWS Pricing Calculator for EC2 and EBS
The blog post that we published over a decade ago to launch the Simple Monthly Calculator still shows up on our internal top-10 lists from time to time! Since that post was published, we have …
Amazon RDS Update – Console Update, RDS Recommendations, Performance Insights, M5 Instances, MySQL 8, MariaDB 10.3, and More
It is time for a quick Amazon RDS update. I’ve got lots of news to share: Console Update – The RDS Console has a fresh, new look. RDS Recommendations – You now get recommendations that …