How AWS powered Prime Day 2024 for record-breaking sales

By Dustin Ward

The last Amazon Prime Day 2024 (July 17-18) was Amazon’s biggest Prime Day shopping event ever, with record sales and more items sold during the two-day event than any previous Prime Day event. Prime members shopped for millions of deals and saved billions across more than 35 categories globally. I live in South Korea, but…

Add macOS to your continuous integration pipelines with AWS CodeBuild

By Dustin Ward

Starting today, you can build applications on macOS with AWS CodeBuild. You can now build artifacts on managed Apple M2 machines that run on macOS 14 Sonoma. AWS CodeBuild is a fully managed continuous integration service that compiles source code, runs tests, and produces ready-to-deploy software packages. Building, testing, signing, and distributing applications for Apple…

Now open — AWS Asia Pacific (Malaysia) Region

By Dustin Ward

In March of last year, Jeff Barr announced the plan for an AWS Region in Malaysia. Today, I’m pleased to share the general availability of the AWS Asia Pacific (Malaysia) Region with three Availability Zones and API name ap-southeast-5. The AWS Asia Pacific (Malaysia) Region is the first infrastructure Region in Malaysia and the thirteenth Region in Asia Pacific,…