Category: AWS re:Invent

Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) has been around for over 12.5 years, stores trillions of objects, and processes millions of requests for them every second. Our customers count on S3 to support their backup & recovery, data archiving, data lake, big data analytics, hybrid cloud storage, cloud-native storage, and disaster recovery needs. Starting from […]

Many organizations use SFTP (Secure File Transfer Protocol) as part of long-established data processing and partner integration workflows. While it would be easy to dismiss these systems as “legacy,” the reality is that they serve a useful purpose and will continue to do so for quite some time. We want to help our customers to […]

Many AWS customers have told us that they need to move large amounts of data into and out of the AWS Cloud. Their use cases include: Migration – Some customers have large data sets that are in a constant state of flux. Their is no natural break or stopping point that they can use to […]

I have wanted to build a robot for decades and now I have my chance! To me, the big challenge has always been the sheer number of different parts that need to connect and interoperate. Complex hardware, software, sensors, communication systems, and a “robot brain” must all work together in order for the robot to […]

It is Sunday night and AWS re:Invent 2018 is underway. I hope that you are as excited as I am to be able to learn about our latest and greatest services and features! A New Approach After speaking to attendees at last year’s re:Invent, looking at data, and listening to lots of comments from readers, […]

Update May 21, 2021 – Predictive Scaling is now available natively in EC2 Auto Scaling for easier configuration. See our documentation for more information and to get started. When I look back on the history of AWS and think about the launches that truly signify the fundamentally dynamic, on-demand nature of the cloud, two stand […]

I distinctly remember the excitement I felt when I created my first Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) as a customer. I had just spent months building a similar environment on-premises and had been frustrated at the complicated setup. One of the immediate benefits that the VPC provided was a magical address at 10.0.0.2 where our EC2 […]

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 Colm MacCarthaigh, and Directors and VPs responsible for entire AWS services to speak within a three day period. So, you […]