Author: Jeff Barr

Amazon Zocalo is a fully managed file storage and sharing service. It provides secure, enterprise-ready storage and strong administrative controls, along with built-in feedback capabilities. Zocalo organizes content into folders and allows individual items and entire folders to be shared with other users. The Zocalo sync client runs on your Windows or Mac desktop and […]

Let’s take a quick look at what happened in AWS-land last week: Monday, December 15 We announced that AWS OpsWorks Supports Custom Shutdown Timeouts and Elastic Load Balancing Connection Draining. A cool post on the 2lemetry Technical Blog talked about Machine Learning With Amazon Lambda. A post on the Cloudability Blog introduced New Cloudability tools for […]

We have updated the AWS Console mobile app with support for AWS Elastic Beanstalk. I’ll let the app’s update notice tell you what’s new: Let’s take a quick look at the new features! The main screen of the app includes a new Beanstalk Applications section: I can see all of my Elastic Beanstalk applications: From […]

Now Hiring As is the case with many parts of AWS, the team behind AWS Support is growing fast and is looking for top-notch people to fill a multitude of open positions. Here are some of the positions that they are working to fill (click through to apply or to read a detailed job description): […]

For many years, AWS customers have used tags to organize their EC2 resources (instances, images, load balancers, security groups, and so forth), RDS resources (DB instances, option groups, and more), VPC resources (gateways, option sets, network ACLS, subnets, and the like) Route 53 health checks, and S3 buckets. Tags are used to label, collect, and […]

We announced the Amazon Amazon EC2 Container Service at AWS re:Invent and invited you to join the preview. Since that time, we’ve seen a lot of interest and a correspondingly high signup rate for the preview. With the year winding down, I thought it would be fun to spend a morning putting the service through […]

My colleague Jarrod Guthrie sent me a blog post with information about four new reports for CloudFront. — Jeff; Amazon CloudFront continues to add reporting features. Recently, launched we’ve usage charts, cache statistics reports, a popular object report, and near-real time operational metrics via Amazon CloudWatch. Today, CloudFront added four more reports that will give […]

Let’s take a quick look at what happened in AWS-land last week: Monday, December 8 We announced that you can now Delete all Messages in an Amazon SQS Queue. We announced an AWS OpsWorks Update with Support for Existing EC2 Instances and On-Premises Servers. The AWS Mobile Development Blog invited you to Learn More About AWS […]

Amazon Glacier is a secure and durable storage service for data archiving and backup. You can store infrequently accessed data in Glacier for as little as $0.01 per gigabyte per month. When you need to retrieve your data, Glacier will make it available for download within 3 to 5 hours. Today we are launching two […]

To support the growing number of Earth science researchers on AWS, we are adding two new members to the collection of Public Data Sets on AWS: CGIAR Global Circulation Models (GCM) data and imagery from the Landsat 8 satellite. If you have been a regular reader of this blog, you may recall some of our […]