Author: Jeff Barr

Let’s take a quick look at what happened in AWS-land last week: Monday, June 8 We announced that AWS CloudHSM is now available in Asia Pacific (Singapore) and Asia Pacific (Tokyo) AWS Regions. The AWS Mobile Development Blog showed you how to Use Amazon Cognito and AWS Lambda to Detect Cheating. The AWS Partner Network […]

I enjoy reading the blog posts that I wrote in the early days of AWS. Way back in 2009, I wrote a post to launch Elastic Load Balancing, Auto Scaling, and Amazon CloudWatch. Here’s what I said at the time: “As soon as you launch some EC2 instances, you want visibility into resource utilization and […]

We launched Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) with a single instance type (m1.small) way back in 2006! Since then, we have added many new types in response to customer demand, enabled by improvements in memory and processor technology (see my recent post, EC2 Instance History, for a look back in time). Today we are […]

Many organizations collect, store, and analyze network flow logs. They use this information to troubleshoot connectivity and security issues, and to make sure that network access rules are working as expected. Up until now, AWS customers collected this data by installing agents on their Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances. Doing so imposed some […]

My colleague Tina Adams sent me a guest post to share news of a new instance type and new Reserved Instance offerings for Amazon Redshift. — Jeff; Amazon Redshift makes analyzing petabyte-scale data fast, cheap, and simple. It delivers advanced technology capabilities, including parallel execution, compressed columnar storage, and end-to-end encryption, as a fully managed […]

Let’s take a quick look at what happened in AWS-land last week: Monday, June 1 We announced that you can now Run Parallel Jobs on Your Amazon EMR Cluster Using AWS Data Pipeline. We gave a heads-up on an Amazon S3 Certificate Renewal. The AWS Java Blog wrapped up their five-part series on Generating Amazon […]

After reading the Greenpeace, Renewable Energy, and Data Centers blog entry from my colleague James Hamilton a couple of weeks back, I took a look at the Greenpeace report on data center power consumption and noted that it’s pretty unusual for an environmental report to not feature energy conservation as a primary evaluation criteria. It […]

My colleague Loren Segal shared the blog post below. As you can see, he’s really excited about the new AWS SDK for Go! — Jeff; Today we are announcing the first Developer Preview Release of the AWS SDK for Go (v0.6.0). If you have not been following along with development, the AWS SDK for Go […]