Author: Jeff Barr

Amazon CloudFront connects with other members of the AWS Family of services to deliver content to end users at high speed and with low latency. In order to get started with CloudFront, you simply create a Distribution, point it at a static or dynamic Origin running on an AWS service such as S3 or EC2 […]

My colleagues launched the new Fire phone last week and the reception from Amazon customers and the tech industry has been incredible. As a long-time user of an Android-powered phone I am looking forward to receiving a Fire phone of my very own sometime soon. Although I have yet to build an actual mobile app […]

Amazon AppStream is a very cool service that lets you build and stream resource-intensive applications from the AWS Cloud. AppStream deploys your application on AWS infrastructure and streams its output to a variety of mass-market devices including personal computers, tablets, and mobile phones. You can eliminate device constraints and address a larger market by making […]

The Amazon corporate culture, like many others, is driven by metrics and analytics. If you manage a product or a service, you are responsible for watching and driving the numbers “up and to the right.” If you are an Independent Software Vendor (ISV), Value-Added Reseller (VAR), or System Integrator (SI) with products in the AWS […]

Amazon Simple Email Service (SES) is a simple, scalable, and cost-effective way to send transactional email, marketing messages, and other types of high-quality content. You can connect your application to Amazon SES using the SES SMTP Interface or a full set of APIs. Either way, you will be able to send your messages with high […]

Let’s take a quick look at what happened in AWS-land last week: Monday, June 16 Julien Vaéry published a very nice AWS Deployment Guide for VPC and Elastic Beanstalk. A helpful blog post by Brian Lowry showed you how to Setup multiple SSL certificates on an Amazon EC2 instance using a VPC. The AWS Application Management […]

Today we are adding captioning support to Amazon Elastic Transcoder. You can now add, remove, or preserve captions as you transcode videos from one format to another, at no additional charge. Captions provide a transcript of the audio portion of the content, making it accessible to more people. With the passing of the Americans with […]

AWS Marketplace makes it easy for you to find, buy, and immediately start using software and services in a wide variety of categories including Software Infrastructure, Developer Tools, and Business Software. Today we are enhancing AWS Marketplace with a brand new Education & Research software category. The products in this category are designed to meets […]

Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS for short) lets you create block storage volumes and attach them to EC2 instances. AWS users enjoy the ability to create EBS volumes that range in size from 1 GB up to 1 TB, create snapshot backups, and to create volumes from snapshots with a couple of clicks, with optional […]

Let’s take a quick look at what happened in AWS-land last week: Monday, June 9 We published Episode 90 of the AWS Podcast. Tuesday, June 10 We announced that Version 7 of Red Hat Enterprise Linux is now Available on AWS. We released an AWS Test Drive for RSA Archer Incident Management on AWS GovCloud (US). The […]