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Author: Tara Walker
Tara was a Technical Evangelist for Amazon Web Services, dedicating her time to help developers build apps, games, and technical solutions in the AWS cloud. Tara worked on evangelizing AWS cloud computing architectures and development for various technologies like Mobile, Gaming, IoT, AI, Serverless just to name a few.
Amazon Elasticsearch Service support for Elasticsearch 5.1
September 8, 2021: Amazon Elasticsearch Service has been renamed to Amazon OpenSearch Service. See details. The Amazon Elasticsearch Service is a fully managed service that provides easier deployment, operation, and scale for the Elasticsearch open-source search and analytics engine. We are excited to announce that Amazon Elasticsearch Service now supports Elasticsearch 5.1 and Kibana 5.1. […]
AWS Monthly Online Tech Talks – March, 2017
September 8, 2021: Amazon Elasticsearch Service has been renamed to Amazon OpenSearch Service. See details. Unbelievably it is March already, as you enter into the madness of March don’t forget to take some time and learning more about the latest service innovations from AWS. Each month, we have a series of webinars targeting best practices […]
Launch: AWS Elastic Beanstalk launches support for Custom Platforms
There is excitement in the air! I am thrilled to announce that customers can now create custom platforms in AWS Elastic Beanstalk. With this latest release of the AWS Elastic Beanstalk service, developers and systems admins can now create and manage their own custom Elastic Beanstalk platform images allowing complete control over the instance configuration. […]
AWS Online Tech Talks – February 2017
September 8, 2021: Amazon Elasticsearch Service has been renamed to Amazon OpenSearch Service. See details. The New Year is underway, so there is no better time to dive into learning more about the latest AWS services. Each month, we have a series of webinars targeting best practices and new service features in AWS Cloud. […]
Introducing the AWS IoT Button Enterprise Program
The AWS IoT Button first made its appearance on the IoT scene in October of 2015 at AWS re:Invent with the introduction of the AWS IoT service. That year all re:Invent attendees received the AWS IoT Button providing them the opportunity to get hands-on with AWS IoT. Since that time AWS IoT button has been […]
AWS Lambda – A Look Back at 2016
2016 was an exciting year for AWS Lambda, Amazon API Gateway and serverless compute technology, to say the least. But just in case you have been hiding away and haven’t heard of serverless computing with AWS Lambda and Amazon API Gateway, let me introduce these great services to you. AWS Lambda lets you run code […]
New – Daily Aggregated Price List notifications
Last year, AWS customers and partners were asking for a systematic way to retrieve prices for AWS services. We answered the need by launching the AWS Price List API last December with pricing for thirteen (13) AWS services. The API provides pricing data in JSON and CSV format for download and enables customers to query for […]
New – Amazon Cognito Groups and Fine-Grained Role-Based Access Control
One of the challenges in building applications has been around user authentication and management. Let’s face it, not many developers want to build yet another user identification and authentication system for their application nor would they want to cause a user to create yet another account unless needed. Amazon Cognito makes it simpler for developers […]