Author: Jeff Barr

During my trip to the AWS Loft earlier this month, I spoke to 8 startups for the AWS Podcast.  Almost all of them told me that they are making use of Docker on AWS, either directly or via Amazon EC2 Container Service. They love the flexibility that it gives them, and appreciate the ease with […]

I love to see all of the cool products and services that the Members of the AWS Partner Network (APN) build and bring to market. In the guest post below, my colleague Shawn Anderson takes you on a tour of Alert Logic’s new Cloud Insight product. — Jeff; In August, Alert Logic introduced Alert Logic […]

Last week I spoke to a technically-oriented audience at the Pacific Northwest PHP Conference. As part of my talk, I described cloud computing as a mix of technology and business, and made my point by talking about Spot instances. The audience looked somewhat puzzled at first, but as I explained further I could see their […]

Many AWS applications use Elastic Load Balancing to distribute traffic to a farm of EC2 instances. An architecture of this type is highly scalable since instances can be added, removed, or replaced in a non-disruptive way. Using a load balancer also gives the application the ability to keep on running if an instance encounters an […]

Amazon Route 53 is a highly available and scalable Domain Name System (DNS) web service. Route 53 connects user requests to infrastructure running in AWS (EC2 instances, load balancers, and S3 buckets), and can also be used to route users to infrastructure outside of AWS. You can configure Route 53 to perform periodic health checks, […]

Update (January 2019): The options described this blog post no longer apply. To learn more, read about Microsoft Licensing on AWS. In the guest post below, my colleagues Bryan Nairn and Niko Pamboukas list some options for those of you who are still running your applications on Windows Server 2003. — Jeff;   As many […]

Let’s take a quick look at what happened in AWS-land last week: Monday, September 7 The AWS Compute Blog published a Simpler Serverless Test Harness Using AWS Lambda and also talked about Microservices Without the Servers. The AWS Mobile Development Blog showed you how to Prepare Your Apps for iOS 9. The N2WS Blog listed […]

The Amazon Redshift team is on a tear. They are listening to customer feedback and rolling out new features all the time! Below you will find an announcement of another powerful and highly anticipated new feature. — Jeff; Amazon Redshift makes it easy to launch a petabyte-scale data warehouse. For less than $1,000/Terabyte/year, you can […]