We are excited to announce that Amazon Glacier has received a third-party assessment that details how Amazon Glacier with Vault Lock can be used to meet the electronic books and records storage requirements of SEC Rule 17a-4(f). The assessment is provided by Cohasset Associates, Inc., a highly respected consulting firm with over 40 years of Read more about Amazon Glacier Receives Third-Party Assessment for SEC Rule 17a-4(f) from Cohasset Associates[…]

You can now launch T2.large instances when using Amazon RDS for MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle and SQL Server across all commercial regions. T2 instances are the low-cost standard instances designed to provide a baseline level of CPU performance with the ability to burst above the baseline. These instances are recommended for workloads that do not use Read more about Amazon RDS for MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle and SQL Server now support T2.large instance type across all commercial regions[…]

Effective September 1, 2015, we are decreasing the price for Virtual Tape Shelf (VTS) storage by 30-36% for Gateway-Virtual Tape Library (VTL) in the US East (Northern Virginia), US West (Oregon), Europe (Ireland) regions. Data stored in VTS is backed by Amazon Glacier, and this change reflects the storage price reduction announced by Glacier on Read more about AWS Storage Gateway Reduces Virtual Tape Shelf (VTS) Storage Pricing[…]

Amazon Kinesis is a fully managed service for real-time processing of streaming data at massive scale. Amazon Kinesis can continuously capture and store terabytes of data per hour from hundreds of thousands of sources. Source: Amazon Web Services News

You can now generate client-side SSL certificates in Amazon API Gateway and use the public key to verify that HTTP requests to your backend systems originated from Amazon API Gateway. Currently, integration endpoints for Amazon API Gateway are always publicly accessible to the Internet. Now, Amazon API Gateway can generate SSL certificates, such that you Read more about Authenticate Access to Your Backend Systems with Client-side SSL Certificates in Amazon API Gateway[…]

Today we released substantially updated English-language versions of AWS Business Professional and AWS Technical Professional, web-based accreditation courses designed to help APN Partners stay current on AWS, articulate the benefits of AWS services, and help customers make informed decisions about IT solutions. Both courses are available to APN Partners at no cost via the APN Read more about Now Available: Improved AWS Business and Technical Accreditations for APN Partners[…]

Amazon WorkSpaces now uses a smaller range of EC2 public IP addresses for its PCoIP gateway servers that will enable customers to set more finely grained firewall policies for devices accessing WorkSpaces. The Amazon WorkSpaces service uses the PCoIP gateway to stream the desktop session to its client applications over port 4172. Source: Amazon Web Read more about Amazon WorkSpaces PCoIP Gateway IP Ranges[…]

Amazon Cognito helps developers onboard and authenticate users with public login providers such as Amazon, Facebook, Twitter, or a custom user login system. Amazon Cognito makes it easy to securely access resources in the AWS Cloud from mobile apps and client-side web apps without hardcoding credentials. Once a user’s identity is established, developers can save Read more about Amazon Cognito is now available in the Asia Pacific (Tokyo) region[…]