Author: Jeff Barr

My colleague Jon Fritz wrote the guest post below to introduce you to the newest version of Amazon EMR. — Jeff; Today we are announcing Amazon EMR release 4.2.0, which adds support for Apache Spark 1.5.2, Ganglia 3.6 for Apache Hadoop and Spark monitoring, and new sandbox releases for Presto (0.125), Apache Zeppelin (0.5.5), and […]

Earlier this year, my colleague Peter Moon shared our plans to launch an AWS SDK for Go. As you will read in Peter’s guest post below, the SDK is now generally available! — Jeff; At AWS, we work hard to promote and serve the developer community around our products. This is one of the reasons […]

If you build mobile apps, you know that you have two implementation choices. You can build native or hybrid applications that compile to an executable file. You can also build applications that run within the device’s web browser. We launched the AWS Device Farm in July with support for testing native and hybrid applications on […]

My colleagues Angel Pizarro and Ariel Gold wrote the incredibly interesting guest post below. — Jeff; Today we are pleased to announce that qualified researchers can now access two of the world’s largest collections of cancer genome data at no cost on AWS as part of the AWS Public Data Sets program. Providing access to […]

Let’s take a quick look at what happened in AWS-land last week: Monday November 9 We announced the AWS Webinars for November 2015 – Learn About New Services and Best Practices. We announced that AWS Device Farm Now Supports Testing Your Apps Written in Swift. The AWS Windows and .NET Developer Blog discussing Using Amazon […]

I have been traveling and got behind on my Week in Review posts. Here’s the day-by-day for late October’ I’ll catch up on everything else (code, presentations, videos, events, and so forth) in the post for the week of November 9th. Monday November 2 The AWS Enterprise Blog noted that Great Leaders Make New Rules. […]

I have been traveling and got behind on my Week in Review posts. Here’s the day-by-day for late October; I’ll catch up on everything else (code, presentations, videos, events, and so forth) in the post for the week of November 9th. Monday October 26 We announced the New EC2 Run Command for Remote Instance Management […]

Today we have a very special guest post. My colleague Shannon Kellogg is a senior member of our Public Policy team. He has an interesting perspective on the role of public policies for renewable energy, with a focus on how they affect investment and economic growth. — Jeff; In late September, I traveled to Virginia’s […]