Author: Jeff Barr

Virtually every organization uses a directory service such as Active Directory to allow computers to join domains, list and authenticate users, and to locate and connect to printers, and other network services including SQL Server databases. A centralized directory reduces the amount of administrative work that must be done when an employee joins the organization, […]

The team has added a slew of analytics and reporting features this year. I would like to recap a pair of recent releases and then introduce you to the features that we are releasing today. As you probably know, CloudFront is a content delivery web service that integrates with the other parts of for easy […]

Earlier this year, we launched a log storage and monitoring feature for . As a quick recap, this feature allows you to upload log files from your instances to CloudWatch, where they are stored durably and easily monitored for specific symbols or messages. The EC2Config service runs on Microsoft Windows instances on EC2, and takes […]

My colleague Rahul Patil sent me a nice guest post. In the post Rahul shows you how to use the new Kinesis Client Library (KCL) for Python developers. — Jeff; The Amazon Kinesis team is excited to release the Kinesis Client Library (KCL) for Python developers! Developers can use the KCL to build distributed applications […]

My colleague Matt Wood wrote a great guest post to announce new support for one of our genomics partners. — Jeff; I am happy to announce that AWS will be supporting the work of our partner, Seven Bridges Genomics, who has been selected as one of the National Cancer Institute (NCI) Cancer Genomics Cloud Pilots. […]

Let’s take a quick look at what happened in AWS-land last week: Monday, October 13 We announced the first Internet of Things (IoT) Hack Day at re:Invent. We announced that Amazon Elastic Transcoder now Supports HLSv4. The published Part 1 of the Introducing the DynamoDB API series. The launched a series of articles on the topic […]

As you know, I’m a big fan of Amazon RDS. I love the fact that it allows you focus on your applications and not on keeping your database up and running. I’m also excited by the disruptive price, performance, and ease of use of , our petabyte-scale, fully managed data warehouse service that lets you […]

provides a persistent, cloud-based desktop experience that can be accessed from a variety of devices including PC and Mac desktops and laptops, iPads, Kindle Fires, and Android tablets. Support for PCoIP Zero Clients Today we are making WorkSpaces even more flexible by adding support for PCoIP zero clients. WorkSpaces desktops are rendered on the server […]

date: 2014-10-15 2:03:16 PM The new Quick Start Reference Deployment Guide for Cloudera Enterprise Data Hub does exactly what the title suggests! The comprehensive (20 page) guide includes the architectural considerations and configuration steps that will help you to launch the new Cloudera Director and an associated Cloudera Enterprise Data Hub (EDH) in a matter […]

Version 3 of the is now in Developer Preview and available on GitHub and Composer. Along with significant performance improvements, v3 brings a number of brand new features. Using the new version, you can now make asynchronous requests with Futures and Promises, query API responses with JMESPath, and bind default request parameters to service clients. […]