RDS cross region snapshots

Great news for AWS RDS users looking to provide extra DR protection to their SQL Server, Oracle and MySQL databases: http://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2013/10/31/announcing-point-and-click-copy-of-amazon-rds-db-snapshots-across-aws-regions/

AWS Oracle RDS partner program

Check out this new Oracle RDS partner ecosystem:
https://aws.amazon.com/rds/partners/

S3 SSE without request header

You must include the provide a request header, x-amz-server-side-encryption.  S3 SSE

 encrypts each object with a unique key.  Unfortunately there is no way to enable SSE for a bucket where SSE happens automatically. There is no such bucket policy or bucket setting.  Some third party tools take care of automatically using SSE, such as S3 browser: http://s3browser.com/amazon-s3-server-side-encryption.php. You can enable encryption for already uploaded files, and it can also be configured to automatically apply encryption during uploading.

Oracle Siebel on AWS

Great slide deck on running Oracle Siebel on AWS from Oracle and AWS partner Enterprise Beacon:
http://www.slideshare.net/MilindWaikul1/enterprise-beacon-managedcloudservices-siebelaws-20938197?utm_source=slideshow&utm_medium=ssemail&utm_campaign=upload_digest