Author: Jeff Barr

You can use AppStream to build complex applications that run from simple devices, unconstrained by the compute power, storage, or graphical rendering capabilities of the device. Your application can take advantage of the new and powerful g2 instance type, including high-performance GPU-powered rendering of 2D and 3D graphics. To learn more about AppStream, see my […]

Let’s take a quick look at what happened in AWS-land last week: Monday, May 5 We announced that you can now Configure Auto Scaling Metrics With CloudFormation , and that you can also Configure Cross-Origin Resource Sharing, Object Versioning, and Lifecycle Management for Amazon S3. We announced that the AWS Elastic Beanstalk Containers have been Updated, […]

With more and more enterprises moving their applications and their data warehouses to the AWS Cloud (often with the help of Amazon Redshift), there’s a ready market for cloud-based Business Intelligence (BI) tools. A good Business Intelligence tool can help you to make sense of the data that your organzation generates, collects, and stores. You […]

I’m pleased to be able to announce that Amazon CloudFront is now part of the AWS Free Usage Tier. If you are eligible for the Free Usage Tier, you can now transfer up to 50 Gigabytes of data and up to 2,000,000 requests per month at no charge. The usage is aggregated across all of […]

Amazon Redshift makes it easy for you to launch a data warehouse. Because Redshift is a managed service, you can focus on your data and your analytics, while Redshift takes care of the infrastructure for you. We have added support for twelve powerful and important features over the past month or so. Let’s take a […]

The AWS Console mobile app for iOS and Android gives you quick, easy access to your AWS resources. You can see and manage your existing EC2 instances, S3 buckets, load balancers, database instances, Auto Scaling groups, OpsWorks stacks, and CloudWatch alarms. We added support for Amazon S3 in the last release but I was super […]

We launched the AWS Global Certification Program in April of 2013. Targeted at Solutions Architects, SysOps Administrators, and Developers, this program allows you, as an individual, to certify your skills and technical knowledge in the planning, deployment, and management of systems that use AWS. Once you complete the certification requirements, you will receive an AWS […]

The AWS Data Pipeline lets you automate the movement and processing of any amount of data using data-driven workflows and built-in dependency checking. Today we are making the Data Pipeline more flexible and more useful with the addition of a new scheduling model that works at the level of an entire pipeline. This builds upon […]

We have received a lot of great feedback on the partner webinars that we held in April. In conjunction with our partners, we will be holding two more webinars this month. The webinars are free, but space is limited and preregistration is advisable. In May we are turning our focus to the all-important topic of […]

Way back in November of 2004 I wrote that “The Simple Queue Service offers a reliable, highly scalable hosted queue for buffering messages between distributed application components.” In the intervening years, we have enhanced SQS with additional features, while keeping in mind that “Simple” is part of the product’s name and appeal. Some of the […]