Author: Jeff Barr

I love to browse through the AWS Marketplace. There are hundreds of software infrastructure components, developer tools, and a very healthy collection of business software, all of which can be purchased and launched within minutes. One of the latest Marketplace additions is the Adobe Media Server. You can host 100 to 10,000 simultaneous RTMFP connections, […]

The AWS Trusted Advisor monitors your AWS resources and provides you with advice for cost optimization, security, performance, and fault tolerance. Today we are adding five additional checks that will be of benefit to users of Amazon Route 53 (Domain Name Services) and AWS CloudTrail (recording and logging of AWS API calls). With today’s launch, […]

Let’s take a quick look at what happened in AWS-land last week: Monday, March 10 We announced an Important AWS Account Key Change. Tuesday, March 11 The Amazon SES Blog asked (and then answered) the question, What do I do if my Registration Emails Have High Bounce Rates. Wednesday, March 12 We announced that Amazon […]

We launched Amazon S3 on March 14, 2006 with a press release and a simple blog post. We knew that the developer community was interested in and hungry for powerful, scalable, and useful web services and we were eager to see how they would respond. S3 and the Amazon Values Almost every company has a […]

Amazon ElastiCache makes it easy for you to create, operate, and scale an in-memory cache. Because ElastiCache contains support for the Memcached and Redis engines, it is compatible with a wide variety of existing applications. I’m happy to announce that ElastiCache now supports version 2.8.6 of Redis and that you can start using it today: […]

We announced Amazon AppStream at last fall’s re:Invent conference, and made the service available to an initial group of developers at that time. Today we are taking the next step forward. I am happy to announce that Amazon AppStream is now being made available to all interested developers. You can build applications that run on […]

As of April 21, 2014, you will no longer be able to retrieve the existing secret access key(s) for your AWS (root) account. If you have become dependent on this feature, you should download your key from the legacy security credentials page now and then save it in a safe and secure location. Better yet, […]

Let’s take a quick look at what happened in AWS-land last week: Monday, March 3 We announced an Update to the AWS Activate Program. We announced that AWS CloudFormation now supports AWS OpsWorks. The AWS Ruby Development Blog announced that Ruby 2.1 is Now Available on AWS OpsWorks. Tuesday, March 4 We announced that Red […]

A fully-supported version of the SAP HANA environment is now available on the AWS cloud. SAP has certified this version for production workloads in a single-node setup and you can count on it for all of your HANA-backed SAP Business Warehouse (BW) and OLAP scenarios. I first wrote about the SAP HANA database and the […]

Update (July 20, 2017) – Fixed the Hive commands and removed a reference to a tutorial that no longer exists. AWS Elastic Load Balancing helps you to build systems that are highly scalable and highly reliable. You can automatically distribute traffic across a dynamically-sized collection of Amazon EC2 instances, and you have the ability to […]