Author: Jeff Barr

I am pleased to be able to announce that registration for AWS re:Invent 2015 is now open! This is our fourth annual event and I expect that it, like its predecessors, will sell out. With less than 5 months to go before the October 6th opening, preparation for the services, presentations, keynotes, hackathons, and entertainment […]

Let’s take a quick look at what happened in AWS-land last week: Monday, May 4 We updated the Zero Administration AWS Lambda Based Amazon Redshift Database Loader to version 2.0. The Roadtrippers Dev Team wrote about Lambda: Bees with Frickin’ Laser Beams. The AWS Java Blog published Part 2 of an article on Generating Amazon S3 […]

My colleague Tina Adams sent a guest post to introduce another cool and powerful feature for Amazon Redshift. — Jeff; Amazon Redshift, our fully managed data warehouse service, makes it fast and easy to analyze all your data. You can get started with a 160GB cluster for free for 2 months, and scale to a […]

I would like to tell you about a new AWS feature that will allow you to make even better use of Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) and Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3). As you probably know, S3 provides you with secure, durable, and highly scalable object storage. You can use the Virtual Private Cloud to […]

The AWS Key Management Service (KMS) provides you with seamless, centralized control over your encryption keys. As I noted when we launched the service (see my post, New AWS Key Management Service, for more information), this service gives you a new option for data protection and relieves you of many of the more onerous scalability […]

As part of a trip to New York last month, I paid a visit to the headquarters of Oscar Health to learn more about what they do and how they use AWS. I sat down with Brent Langston (Site Reliability Engineer) and Mackenzie Kosut (Head of Technical Operations) to learn more. All About Oscar Oscar […]

Let’s take a quick look at what happened in AWS-land last week: Monday, April 27 We announced Improved JSON Editing and Key Condition Expressions for DynamoDB. We announced Vault Access Policies for Amazon Glacier. We announced that the EC2 Container Service is now Available in the Asia Pacific (Sydney) Region. The Realestate.com.au Tech Blog announced […]

We have added another AWS Quick Start Reference Deployment. The new SAP Business One, Version for SAP HANA document will show you how to get on the fast track to plan, deploy, and configure this enterprise resource planning (ERP) solution. It is powered by SAP HANA, SAP’s in-memory database. This deployment builds on our existing […]