Author: Jeff Barr

Best practices for IT security are often easier to define than to implement. We are doing our best to define best practices at the AWS Security Center, backed up with services and security features that are as easy to implement as possible. In this vein, I want to make sure that you are fully aware […]

We want to do our part to help educational institutions all over the world train and graduate students who are ready, willing, and able to power the cloud-powered world of tomorrow! The AWS Educate initiative will provide students and educators with four important resources: Grants of AWS credits for use in courses and projects. Free […]

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 (Amazon S3). As you probably know, S3 provides you with secure, durable, and highly scalable object storage. You can use the Virtual Private Cloud […]

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 […]