Author: Jeff Barr

Amazon Cognito makes it easy for you to save user data such as app preferences in the AWS Cloud without writing any backend logic or managing any infrastructure. You can focus on creating a great app instead of worrying about creating server-side code to handle identity management, network state, storage, and sync. Today we are […]

I am already looking forward to my fourth re:Invent! This year’s conference will take place from October 6 to 9 in Las Vegas. We’ll be announcing more details and opening up the registration system in May. You can sign up here in order to receive email updates. We are already working on the services, presentations, […]

Continuing with my series of interviews from the AWS Pop-up Loft, I spoke with Vaibhav Mallya of OfferLetter.io. We chatted about his time at Amazon and Twitter, and his motivation for founding his own company. You can listen to the full interview to learn a lot more. As a special bonus for podcast listeners, Vaibhav […]

Amazon Kinesis is at home in situations where data arrives in a continuous stream. It is real-time and elastic and you can use it to reliably deliver any amount of data to your mission-critical applications. Today we are making an important change to Kinesis. You can now retrieve records (data) immediately after a successful PutRecord […]

April 30, 2018: We’ve discontinued Amazon Mobile Analytics. Amazon Pinpoint now provides the analytics features that Amazon Mobile Analytics previously offered. If you’re new to Mobile Analytics, you can integrate the mobile analytics features of Amazon Pinpoint into your app. If you currently use Amazon Mobile Analytics, you can migrate to Amazon Pinpoint.   The […]

Let’s take a quick look at what happened in AWS-land last week: Monday, February 23 We launched a Cost Explorer Update, with More Filtering and Grouping Dimensions. We announced support for Data Pipeline Roles and Tags, along with some Security Improvements. We announced that the EC2 Container Service is now Available in the US West […]

We’re adding four new checks to AWS Trusted Advisor. As you may know, AWS Trusted Advisor inspects your AWS environment and looks for ways to save money, increase performance & reliability, and to help close security gaps. Today’s checks are for Elastic Load Balancing, with a focus on security and fault tolerance. Security Checks The […]

A few months ago, I discussed 20 new features from Amazon Redshift, our petabyte-scale, fully managed data warehouse service that lets you get started for free and costs as little as $1,000 per TB per year. The Amazon Redshift team has released over 100 new features since the launch, with a focus on price, performance, […]