This week's re:Invent 2016 conference held by Amazon Web Services generated a huge amount of developer related news, which might seem a bit overwhelming, so we've boiled down the highlights of special interest to developers in the mobile space, one of the hottest segments of the industry and a natural fit for cloud computing.
Amazon Web Services this week announced the preview of a new service that gives developers a detailed map of their applications' innards for better troubleshooting.
A new managed solution from Amazon Web Services aims to protect cloud applications against distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks.
A new tool introduced by Amazon Web Services today at its re:Invent 2016 conference provides visual workflows for building distributed applications, with no coding required.
Amazon Web Services provides a simple way for developers to spin up virtual private servers with the new Amazon Lightsail, announced at the company's ongoing re:Invent 2016 conference.
Amazon Web Services CEO Andy Jassy capped off his re:Invent keynote on Wednesday by rolling a 45-foot-long truck onstage. "Introducing AWS Snowmobile," he said.
Amazon Web Services today announced Amazon Athena, which enables serverless queries of massive amounts of data stored in Amazon Simple Storage Service, bypassing standard Big Data processes such as spinning up Hadoop clusters.
Amazon Web Services unveiled three new offerings on Wednesday aimed at enabling developers to build apps that leverage artificial intelligence.
One of the AWS cloud's "superpowers," according to CEO Andy Jassy, is its pace of innovation.
A new tool introduced at the Amazon Web Services Inc. re:Invent 2016 conference helps cloud users more easily find AWS Partners to help with specific projects.
Amazon Web Services announced the launch of two new AWS Partner Network competencies during Tuesday's Global Partner Summit event.
Amazon Web Services kicked off its 2016 re:Invent conference this week with several announcements aimed at helping partners that have more specialized technical practices and focus areas.
451 Research today predicted that "AWS+1" -- the use of the Amazon Web Services cloud along with a secondary public cloud service -- will be the default enterprise cloud strategy in 2017.
Amazon Web Services (AWS) recently announced another round of cost reductions to several of its cloud services.
Amazon Web Services is courting developers who create corporate apps leveraging existing user directories and hooking into other systems such as customer relationship management, sales management, accounting and customer service tools.
A public preview has launched for a new Administrative SDK for Amazon WorkDocs that lets developers integrate management functionality into apps that work with the enterprise storage and file sharing service.
Amazon Web Services is now offering Software-as-a-Service subscriptions to simplify access and billing processes for the bevy of SaaS wares on the AWS Marketplace.
Amazon Web Services yesterday announced Amazon QuickSight, described as an easy-to-use, inexpensive tool for gleaning BI insights from Big Data analytics, is now generally available.
Businesses that need to transfer individuals' health care data to the cloud under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPPA) can now do so using Amazon Web Services' Snowball product.
Several Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instances will cost as much as 25 less starting next month.