Author: Jeff Barr

Let’s take a quick look at what happened in AWS-land last week: Monday, May 25 We celebrated Memorial Day in the United States. We announced SSLv3 and RC4 Deprecation for Amazon SQS. AWS Community Hero Eric Hammond talked about Debugging AWS Lambda Invocations with an Echo Function. Tuesday,  May 26 We announced that AWS Elastic […]

I received an interesting tweet last night. Steve Goldsmith of ITOC Australia (an APN Advanced Consulting Partner and recipient of an AWS Customer Obsession award earlier this year) asked me if I had a historical timeline of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instance launches: I didn’t have one, but it seemed like a worthwhile thing […]

Back in the spring of 2002 I wrote a simple PHP wrapper around the then-new Amazon E-Commerce Service. This little wrapper caught Amazon’s attention and before I knew it I was a member of the Amazon Associates team! Later, when I decided to write a book to show people how to use AWS, PHP was […]

Many AWS customers use Amazon CloudFront to deliver content to end users at high data transfer speed with low latency. Because CloudFront has no minimum usage commitment, it is a good fit for web properties of any size. Each CloudFront edge location caches recently used objects in order to deliver dynamic, static, streaming, or interactive […]

Let’s take a quick look at what happened in AWS-land last week: Monday, May 18 We announced the EC2 Spot Fleet API for Management of Thousands of Spot Instances with one Request. We announced AWS OpsWorks for Windows. We advised you to Look Before You Leap – The Coming Leap Second and AWS. We announced […]

I met with the Amazon Payments developer relations team a couple of weeks ago in order to get an update on Login and Pay with Amazon (see my post, PeachDish – Login, Pay, Cook, and Eat With AWS, to learn more). The team has been working to make it even easier for you to add […]

We opened up the first AWS Pop-up Loft last year. By virtue of its location (Market Street in San Francisco) it is accessible to entrepreneurs, students, and others interested in learning more about AWS. Our customers have also used it for co-working and for meetings. Personally, I like to use the AWS Loft in San […]

It has been really interesting to watch Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) evolve over the last eight or nine years. At first you could launch a single instance type, in one region, at a predetermined (On-Demand) price. Today, you can launch a plethora of instance types, in any one of ten regions (eleven including AWS […]