Author: Jeff Barr

As regular readers of this blog know, I am a big fan of the AWS Test Drive Program. I love the fact that it gives you the ability to quickly and easily launch and evaluate a wide variety of server-based applications at no charge. Instead of spending hours downloading and configuring these applications on your […]

My colleague Chetan Dandekar has a lot of good news for AWS CloudFormation users! — Jeff; AWS CloudFormation now supports Amazon Redshift. We have recently enhanced our support for other AWS resources as well. What is CloudFormation?AWS CloudFormation simplifies provisioning and management of a wide range of AWS resources, from EC2 and VPC to DynamoDB. […]

Let’s take a quick look at what happened in AWS-land last week: Monday, February 3 We updated the Amazon CloudFront Public IP Address Ranges. Tuesday, February 4 The Amazon Mobile App Distribution Blog announced that you can Earn a Guaranteed $1.50 CPM on Banner Ads from the Amazon Mobile Ads Network for a limited time. […]

Let’s take a quick look at what happened in AWS-land last week: Monday, January 27 We announced that AWS CloudFormation now supports Auto Scaling Scheduled Actions and DynamoDB Secondary Indexes. We announced a new Financial Services Category in the AWS Marketplace. Tuesday, January 28 We announced that Amazon Kinesis can now Connect to Storm. Wednesday, […]

Amazon Route 53 is a highly available and highly scalable DNS service. Route 53 is able to meet the needs of complex enterprises, while remaining simple enough to be a good fit for personal websites. Today we are adding some useful new features to Route 53: Improved Health Checks (including HTTPS support), and a new […]

As we continue to add additional products to the AWS Marketplace, we want to make sure that you can find, buy, and start to use them as quickly as possible. We have fine-tuned the search model used by the AWS Marketplace. We have also added a set of search filters and improved performance. Fine-Tuned SearchWhen […]

You can use Amazon AppStream to stream resource-intensive applications and games from the cloud. The developers at CCP Games love AppStream and showed how they could enable the character creator for the incredibly popular Eve Online game. In the video below, Halldor Fannor (CTO of CCP Games) speaks his mind regarding the new-user experience that […]

Amazon Simple Email Service (SES) makes it easy and cost-effective for you to send transactional emails, marketing emails, or any other high-quality messages to your customers. This month we expanded the SES footprint to a pair of new AWS Regions. You can now send emails from any of the following endpoints: US East (Northern Virginia) […]

The Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS) makes it easy for you to decouple the components of your application from each other. Proper use of SQS can make your applications easier to build, scale, and run. For example, you could have one task produce work items, post them to a queue, and have another task pull […]

Amazon EC2 gives you the power to launch On-Demand Instances and pay by the hour. You can also purchase Reserved Instances to lower costs and reserve capacity, and you can bid for spare capacity by using Spot Instances (see the Instance Purchasing Options page for more information). With all of this flexibility at your fingertips, […]