Author: Jeff Barr

Let’s take a quick look at what happened in AWS-land last week: Monday, July 21 The talked about Supporting Windows Phone 8.1. The showed you how to View CloudFormation Logs in the Console. Our AWS Partners in India released Twenty Five New AWS Test Drives. Tuesday, July 22 We announced the new Big Data Blog and Web-Based […]

When your web browser or your mobile device makes a TCP connection to an Elastic Load Balancer, the connection is used for the request and the response, and then remains open for a short amount of time for possible reuse. This time period is known as the idle timeout for the Load Balancer and is […]

The topic of comes up almost every time I meet with current or potential AWS customers. They want to store, process, and extract meaning from data sets that seemingly grow in size with every meeting. In order to help our customers to understand the full spectrum of resources that are available for use on their […]

Let’s take a quick look at what happened in AWS-land last week: Monday, July 14 We launched Annual Pricing for AWS Marketplace Products. We announced Time to Live (TTL) Control for Amazon SNS. We announced that you can now Store and Monitor OS and Application Log Files with Amazon CloudWatch. We published Episode #93 of the […]

The provides you with a programmatic access to your support cases and to the . Today we are extending the API in order to give you more control over the cases that you create and a new, lightweight way to access information about your cases. The examples in this post make use of the . […]

We launched RDS PostgreSQL at in November of 2013 in order to bring the benefits of a managed database service to the PostgreSQL community. Customers of all sizes are bringing their mission-critical PostgreSQL workloads to RDS at a rapid clip. Here is a small sample of the applications that have been launched on top of […]

I’m writing today to tell you about an important new feature for AWS Marketplace. As you may know, the AWS Marketplace lets you find, buy, and immediately start using a wide variety of software for developers and enterprises — 26 categories that span infrastructure, developer tools, and business applications. You can now purchase AWS Marketplace […]

is a fast and flexible push messaging service. Many of the messages that you can send with SNS are relevant or valuable for a limited period of time. Sports scores, weather notifications, and “flash sale” announcements can all get stale in a short period of time. In situations where devices are offline or disconnected, flooding […]

When you move from a static operating environment to a dynamically scaled, cloud-powered environment, you need to take a fresh look at your model for capturing, storing, and analyzing the log files produced by your operating system and your applications. Because instances come and go, storing them locally for the long term is simply not […]

Let’s take a quick look at what happened in AWS-land last week: Monday, July 7 We announced New Practice Exams for AWS Certification. We launched New Active Directory Integration Features for Amazon WorkSpaces. We introduced Additional IAM Support in the AWS Billing Console (also covered in the AWS Security Blog). Tuesday, July 8 Nothing happened. Wednesday, July 9 […]