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Author: Sébastien Stormacq
Seb has been writing code since he first touched a Commodore 64 in the mid-eighties. He inspires builders to unlock the value of the AWS cloud, using his secret blend of passion, enthusiasm, customer advocacy, curiosity and creativity. His interests are software architecture, developer tools and mobile computing. If you want to sell him something, be sure it has an API. Follow him on Twitter @sebsto.
Preview – AWS Backup Adds Support for HAQM S3
Starting today, you can preview AWS Backup for HAQM Simple Storage Service (HAQM S3). AWS Backup is a fully managed, policy-based service that lets you to centralize and automate the backup and restore of your applications spanning across 12 AWS services: HAQM Elastic Compute Cloud (HAQM EC2) instances, HAQM Elastic Block Store (HAQM EBS) volumes, […]
Machine Learning-Powered HAQM Connect, Now With Call Summarization
At AWS our mission is to make machine learning (ML) accessible to data scientists, developers, and business users. To help businesses easily leverage the power of ML, we create purpose-built solutions that embed ML and deep learning technologies directly into a business process to address real customer needs, rather than leaving companies to sort it […]
New – HAQM EBS Snapshots Archive
[UPDATE September 12 2022: I clarified the time it might take to retrieve a snapshot from the archive] I am pleased to announce the availability of HAQM EBS Snapshots Archive, a new storage tier for the long-term retention of HAQM Elastic Block Store (HAQM EBS) snapshots of your EBS volumes. In a nutshell, EBS is […]
New – HAQM CloudWatch Evidently – Experiments and Feature Management
Update Nov 29, 2021 – This post has been modified to provide more clarity on the new service. As a developer, I am excited to announce the availability of HAQM CloudWatch Evidently. This is a new HAQM CloudWatch capability that makes it easy for developers to introduce experiments and feature management in their application code. […]
Preview – AWS Migration Hub Refactor Spaces Helps to Incrementally Refactor Your Applications
[Editor’s note : AWS Migration Hub Refactor Spaces is generally available since Feb. 9th 2022] I am excited to announce the preview of AWS Migration Hub Refactor Spaces, a new capability of AWS Migration Hub to let you refactor existing applications into distributed applications, typically based on microservices. There are multiple reasons why you want […]
Measure and Improve Your Application Resilience with AWS Resilience Hub
I am excited to announce the immediate availability of AWS Resilience Hub, a new AWS service designed to help you define, track, and manage the resilience of your applications. You are building and managing resilient applications to serve your customers. Building distributed systems is hard; maintaining them in an operational state is even harder. The […]
Goodbye Microsoft SQL Server, Hello Babelfish
[UPDATE May 17 2022: I added one command line in the demo section to automatically select the latest version of PostgreSQL RDS engine] Many of our customers are telling us they want to move away from proprietary database vendors to avoid expensive costs and burdensome licensing terms. But migrating away from commercial and legacy databases […]
AWS Local Zones Are Now Open in Las Vegas, New York City, and Portland
Today, we are opening three new AWS Local Zones in Las Vegas, New York City (located in New Jersey), and Portland metro areas. We are now at a total of 14 Local Zones in 13 cities since Jeff Barr announced the first Local Zone in Los Angeles in December 2019. These three new Local Zones […]