Author: Jeff Barr

I’d like to give you a quick update on AWS CloudHSM. First, the “HSM” is short for Hardware Security Module. As I noted in my earlier blog post: An HSM is a piece of hardware — a dedicated appliance that provides secure key storage and a set of cryptographic operations within a tamper-resistant enclosure. You […]

I am happy to announce that we are reducing the On-Demand and Reserved Instance prices for Amazon EC2’s M3 (Second Generation Standard) instances, effective November 1. We are lowering the On-Demand prices of M3 instances by 10%. Regardless of which region you are running M3 instances in, these price reductions will automatically be reflected in […]

Do you want to build fast, 3D applications that run in the cloud and deliver high performance 3D graphics to mobile devices, TV sets, and desktop computers? If so, you are going to love our new G2 instance type! The g2.2xlarge instance has the following specs: NVIDIA GRID (GK104 “Kepler”) GPU (Graphics Processing Unit), 1,536 […]

In the latest episode of The AWS Report, I spoke with Peng Zhao, CTO of MadeiraCloud, to learn more about their WYSIWYG design tool for AWS. We spoke about how and why they built it, and what their customers are using it for. We also spoke about the state of the cloud computing market in […]

Let’s take a quick look at what happened in AWS-land last week: Monday, October 28 I published a new AWS Report video featuring Chris Langway of Optaros. The AWS Application Management Blog discussed CloudFormation and the New AWS CLI. The AWS .Net Development Blog talked about Getting Your EC2 Windows Password. Tuesday, October 29 We […]

I am counting down the days to AWS re:Invent and am looking forward to meeting as many of my loyal readers as possible. With just a week to go, I thought it would be fun to let you know a bit more about the most popular sessions and to share some interesting stats and facts […]

In the latest episode of The AWS Report, I spoke with my colleague Robert Peterson to learn more about the AWS Marketplace. We discussed the benefits that it provides to users and vendors. Users get to choose from a wide variety of applications and launch them with one click; vendors have a new distribution channel […]

I know that many AWS customers are interested in building applications that run in more than one of the eight public AWS regions. As a result, we have been working to add features to AWS to simplify and streamline the data manipulation operations associated with building and running global applications. In the recent past we […]

AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM for short) lets you control access to AWS services and resources using access control policies. IAM includes a large collection of prebuilt policies, and you can also create your own. IAM policies are comprised of policy statements. Each statement either allows or denies access to some AWS services (at […]

Would you like to build rich, browser-based applications that make direct calls to AWS services without the need for any server-side code? If so, I invite you to take a look at the developer preview of our new AWS SDK for JavaScript. You can make direct calls to the following AWS services: Amazon S3 to […]