Author: Jeff Barr

Following up on his recent guest post, my colleague Peter Moon has more news for Go developers! — Jeff;   Since our initial kickoff announcement in January, we have been revamping the internals of the AWS SDK for Go in the project’s ‘develop’ branch on GitHub, laying out a solid foundation for a well-tested, robustly […]

Many AWS customers use Amazon EMR to process huge amounts of data.  Built around Hadoop, EMR allows these customers to build highly scalable processing systems that can quickly and efficiently digest raw data and turn it into actionable business intelligence. EMR File System (EMRFS) enables Amazon EMR clusters to operate directly on data in Amazon […]

We are making some improvements to Amazon CloudFront‘s reporting feature. These improvements will allow you to learn even more about how and where your content is being accessed, export your data for additional analysis, and easily monitor and set alarms on a set of six metrics that CloudFront publishes to CloudWatch. Let’s take a look […]

We launched Amazon S3 nine years ago as of last week! Since that time we have added dozens of features, expanded across the globe, and reduced the prices for storage and bandwidth multiple times. You, our customers, have trusted us with your mission-critical data and have used S3 in thousands of interesting and unique ways. […]

The Amazon Linux AMI is a supported and maintained Linux image for use on Amazon EC2. We release new versions of the Amazon Linux AMI every six months after a public testing phase that includes one or more Release Candidates. The Release Candidates are announced in the EC2 forum. Launching 2015.03 Today Today we are […]

AWS Marketplace makes it easy for you to find, buy, and quickly start using a wide variety of software products from developers located all over the world: Open in Germany Today we are making AWS Marketplace available to users of our new Europe (Frankfurt) region.  If you are using this region you can make use […]

We announced the AWS Managed Service Partner program at last year’s AWS re:Invent. We created the program in order to help our customers to find AWS Partner Network (APN) Partners who can deliver managed services in the cloud. In order for an APN Partner to become an approved member of this program, the quality of […]

Let’s take a quick look at what happened in AWS-land last week: Monday, March 16 We announced that the EC2 Container Service is now Available in the EU (Ireland) Region. We published the Second Release Candidate of the Amazon Linux AMI. We updated the AWS SDK for Unity. Tuesday, March 17 The AWS Security Blog […]