AWS Marketplace

Update on 4/20/2020:  In addition to this blog, AWS Marketplace released Private Marketplace feature that lets administrators create a curated list of products authorized users can purchase from. For more information, see documentation and blogs.  Update on 1/20/2021:  In addition to this blog, you can use managed entitlements, a new feature of AWS License Manager […]

In this post, I will summarize the principles discussed in the recent AWS Marketplace webinar, “Making the Move from DevOps to DevSecOps.” If you are on your journey to the cloud with AWS, you are probably already using some DevOps approaches, so you can spin up new Virtual Machines (VMs), test, stage, and deploy applications […]

By Ian Yang, Sr. Product Manager at AWS AWS Marketplace is a digital catalog with thousands of independent software vendors that makes it easy for customers to find, buy, and deploy software on AWS. For Sellers, this gives you a way to connect to more than 170,000 customers using AWS Marketplace. AWS Marketplace recently announced […]

Updated 1/9/2020 On 12/1/2019, AWS released EC2 Image Builder, which simplifies the creation, maintenance, validation, sharing, and deployment of Linux or Windows Server images. We now recommend AWS customers use EC2 Image Builder to manage your golden images. Find out more about EC2 Image Builder here, and read this blog post Automate OS image build […]

Continuous delivery (CD) has many advantages: faster build/test/deploy cycles, less manual work for developers, higher quality software, and more reliable updates. So why doesn’t everyone work this way? One reason is that the path to implementation can be bumpy. Particularly for large enterprises, there can be a steep learning curve—especially when teams are expected to […]

Moving to the cloud can’t be a leap of faith for today’s enterprise companies. You need to know you’ll enjoy levels of service and reliability that are the same or better than what you get from your existing data centers. Version 1 provides migration, management, and optimization services for enterprise applications in the cloud, and […]

Even with the most carefully planned data strategy, accumulating disparate data is inevitable—if not in formal databases, then in the many business applications in use in your environment. Asking IT to clean and combine data sets for each new question takes time you don’t have. If you can’t access and use disparate data effectively, how […]

Managed hosting—at first it can feel like a good fit. Then it starts to feel like a straitjacket. That was the experience of MovieStarPlanet, a Danish company founded in 2009 to develop and market interactive social games aimed at children and tweens. The company’s catalog includes the games MovieStarPlanet, BooniePlanet, and BlockStarPlanet. “We were using […]

In an article this summer, Harvard Business Review made a strong case for the importance of artificial intelligence (AI) in today’s business world. According to HBR, AI technologies are “poised to have a transformational impact, on the scale of earlier general-purpose technologies” (i.e., databases or the internet). But the fact that these technologies will soon […]