Author: Jeff Barr

We want to make sure that developers can use the programming language of their choice to build AWS-powered applications that run on many different types of devices and in a wide variety of environments. As you can see from the AWS Tools page, we already support multiple mobile (iOS, Android, and Unity) and counter-top (Alexa […]

We launched Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) in the spring of 2006 with a simple blog post.  Over the years we have kept the model simple and powerful while reducing prices, and adding features such as the reduced redundancy storage model, VPC endpoints, cross-region replication, and event notifications. We launched the event notification model […]

We announced Amazon Aurora last year at AWS re:Invent (see Amazon Aurora – New Cost-Effective MySQL-Compatible Database Engine for Amazon for more info).  With storage replicated both within and across three Availability Zones, along with an update model driven by quorum writes, Amazon Aurora is designed to deliver high performance and 99.99% availability while easily […]

Let’s take a quick look at what happened in AWS-land last week. If you find these summaries useful, or if you have ideas for additional types of content, please feel free to leave a comment. Monday, July 20 We announced that Amazon RDS now Supports Oracle 12.1.0.2 and Improved CloudHSM Integration. We announced that Amazon […]

Amazon EMR is a managed cluster platform that simplifies running big data frameworks, such as Apache Hadoop and Apache Spark, on AWS to process and analyze vast amounts of data. By using these frameworks and related open-source projects, such as Apache Hive and Apache Pig, you can process data for analytics purposes and business intelligence […]

If you are tasked with providing and managing user logins to a fleet of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances running Linux, I have some good news for you! You can now join these instances to an AWS Directory Service Simple AD directory and manage credentials for your user logins using standard Active Directory […]

Amazon CloudWatch monitors your cloud resources and applications, including Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances. You can track cloud, system, and application metrics, see them in graphical form, and arrange to be notified (via a CloudWatch alarm) if they cross a threshold value that you specify. You can also stop, terminate, or recover an […]

Let’s take a quick look at what happened in AWS-land last week: Monday, July 13 We announced that Amazon Redshift now Supports AVRO Ingestion. We announced Amazon Wind Farm US East. An article in Forbes talked about Amazon’s Cloud Ecosystem: Where The Cloud Action Is. A post on the Cloudability Blog reviewed the AWS Summit […]