Author: Jeff Barr

I am happy to be able to announce that AWS has achieved the first DoD Provisional Authorization under the DoD Cloud Security Model’s at security impact levels 3-5! AWS previously received a DoD Provisional Authorization for security impact levels 1-2. This new Authorization covers and DoD customers can now move forward with their deployments of […]

You probably know that you can use to distribute your content to users around the world with a high degree of security, low latency and high data transfer speed. CloudFront supports the use of secure HTTPS connections from the origin to the edge and from the edge to the client; if you enable this option […]

is a fast and flexible push messaging service. You can easily send messages to Apple, Google, Fire OS and Windows devices, including Android devices in China (via Baidu Cloud Push). Today we are enhancing SNS with support for large topics (more than 10,000 subscribers) and authenticated delivery to MPNS (Microsoft Push Notification Service). Large Topics […]

Let’s take a quick look at what happened in AWS-land last week: Monday, August 11 We announced Multi-Factor Authentication for Amazon WorkSpaces. We announced that you can now Tag Your Elastic Load Balancers. The talked about S3 Server Side Encryption With Windows PowerShell. We published Episode 96 of the . Tuesday, August 12 We announced that you […]

Earlier this year, I wrote about our Free AWS Instructional Videos and the associated AWS labs. The videos and the labs will help you to get started using an AWS Service in about 30 minutes. We have recently added three new videos and labs to go along with them: Introduction to Amazon DynamoDB – Video […]

PHP development on AWS just got easier today. Zend Technologies (the PHP company) is now delivering Z-Ray productivity booster for PHP developers on the . The success of a platform is based on many factors, developer productivity being one of the most important. Productivity leads to innovation and innovation leads to differentiation and (hopefully) success […]

Building on top of our earlier work to bring Microsoft SharePoint to , I am happy to announce that we have published a comprehensive Quick Start Reference and a set of templates. As part of today’s launch, you get a reference deployment, architectural guidance, and a fully automated way to deploy a production-ready installation of […]

is a fully managed desktop computing service in the cloud. You can easily provision and manage cloud-based desktops that can be accessed from laptops, iPads, Kindle Fire, and Android tablets. Today we are enhancing WorkSpaces with support for multi-factor authentication using an on-premises RADIUS server. In plain English, your WorkSpaces users will now be able […]

helps you to build applications that are resilient and easy to scale. You can create both public-facing and internal load balancers in the with a couple of clicks. Today we are launching a helpful new feature for . You can now add up to ten tags (name/value pairs) to each of your load balancers. You […]

Let’s take a quick look at what happened in AWS-land last week: Monday, August 4 We announced that Amazon RDS Now Supports T2 Instances. We unveiled the Updated IAM Console. We posted Episode 95 of the . Tuesday, August 5 An article on CIO.COM explained How AWS Helped Scale App for World Cup Social Media Hub. Wednesday, August […]