2022 Web3 predictions from Vendia
Thursday, January 6, 2022 by Freeman Lightner
Shruthi Rao is co-founder and Chief Business Officer at Vendia, a serverless, distributed data application platform. Previously, she founded the Blockchain category at AWS, where she launched and grew Amazon Managed Blockchain and Amazon Quantum Ledger Database, and was the lead Business Development for AWS’ Serverless portfolio of services including Lambda, API G...
Amazon location service launches
Monday, August 23, 2021 by Freeman Lightner
Amazon Web Services, Inc. announced the general availability of Amazon Location Service, a new service that makes it easier and more cost-effective for customers to add location functionality to their applications without compromising on user privacy or data security. With Amazon Location Service, customers can embed location functionality in their applications usi...
AWS Launches Beta of AWS IoT Cloud Services for Connected Devices
Wednesday, October 28, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
The new beta AWS IoT offers a managed cloud platform that lets connected devices securely interact with cloud applications and other devices. AWS IoT can support billions of devices and trillions of messages, and can process and route those messages to AWS endpoints and to other devices reliably and securely. With AWS IoT, applications can keep track of and commun...
AWS Creates Competency Program for Third Party Mobile Services
Monday, August 24, 2015 by Richard Harris
As part of its AWS Partner Network (APN), AWS has recently launched a new APN Mobile Competency designation which recognizes partners that have demonstrated experience and competency with mobile development in helping AWS customers build, test, analyze, and monitor mobile apps.APN is a tiered program comprised of consulting and technology partners, who graduate through ...
Amazon's New API Gateway Offers New API implementations on AWS
Tuesday, July 14, 2015 by Richard Harris
Amazon’s new API Gateway is a pay-as-you-go service which offers the opportunity to build and run application backends and connect applications to API implementations that run on AWS Lambda, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), or a publicly addressable service hosted outside of AWS. The platform allows companies to implement APIs that wrap around, enhance, and effe...
AWS Releases Updates to Lambda Platform for Scaling High Volume Production Applications
Tuesday, April 14, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
AWS Lambda is a zero-admin compute platform that removes the need for developers to configure, launch, or monitor Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instances; and have to consider scale and fault tolerance. Developers can instead create a Lambda function (using JavaScript / Node.js), set the appropriate permissions, and connect the function to AWS resources.The platfor...
Amazon AWS Mobile SDK for Unity3D Game Development in Developer Preview
Friday, February 13, 2015 by Richard Harris
Amazon’s AWS recently launched an update to the AWS Mobile SDK for Unity developers. The AWS Mobile SDK for Unity helps games handle cloud storage along with identity and user state management directly from within the Unity developer environment.The SDK is currently available in Developer Preview containing a set of .NET classes that enables games written with Unity to ...
GA Release of AWS Mobile SDK Now Available
Friday, October 17, 2014 by Richard Harris
The AWS Mobile SDK for iOS, Android, and Fire OS has been released out of developer preview and is now generally available. The AWS Mobile SDK provides access to AWS services specifically designed to help mobile app developers with identity management & sync (Amazon Cognito), analytics (Amazon Mobile Analytics), and push notifications (Amazon SNS Mobile Push). ...
Amazon Web Services (AWS) Offers Mobile Developers New Services
Tuesday, July 15, 2014 by Richard Harris
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has upped the ante in its efforts to woo mobile developers to use its services to build, deploy, and scale mobile applications. It has introduced a number of new services as part of the AWS platform.Amazon CognitoAmazon Cognito is a new service that provides user identity and data synchronization that lets developers create apps that authentica...
