Author: Jeff Barr

AWS Direct Connect makes it easy for you to establish a dedicated network connection from your premises to AWS. You can do this to reduce your network costs, improve throughput, or to provide a more consistent network experience than is possible with an Internet-based connection. Today we are making AWS Direct Connect even more powerful […]

The AWS Training and Certification program has been expanding in breadth and in depth. We are adding more training and more certifications, all with the goal of helping you to learn more about how to design, build, and run applications on AWS. New AWS Certification Beta ExamsIf you will be attending AWS re:Invent next month, […]

In the latest episode of The AWS Report, I spoke with my colleague Michael Fuller to get an update on the AWS Marketplace. We talked about the value proposition for ISVs, the on-boarding process, and the business model. Co-host Lee Zen chatted with EC2 Product Manager Luis Wang to get his take on the Marketplace […]

In the latest episode of The AWS Report, I spoke with my colleague Chris Barclay to get an update on AWS OpsWorks.. We talked about what it is, what it does, how it simplifies the application deployment process, and its relationship to the DevOps model. Co-host Lee Zen and I debated the pros and cons […]

Let’s take a quick look at what happened in AWS-land last week: Monday, October 14 We introduced Federated Users and Temporary Security Credentials for AWS CloudFormation. Tuesday, October 15 We added Content Uploading Support to Amazon CloudFront. Wednesday, October 16 The AWS .Net Developer Blog talked about Drag and Drop in the AWS Toolkit for […]

The Amazon Elastic Transcoder gives you the power to convert or transcode media files from one format to another, making it possible for you to create files that are compatible with smart phones, tablets, PCs, and other devices without having to worry about servers, storage, scalability, or a host of other issues. We are adding […]

As a regular reader of this blog you probably know a thing or two about Amazon CloudFront and have a decent understanding of the basic value proposition: it is a scalable, easy to use web service for content delivery, with a pay-as-you-go pricing model and the ability to accelerate the delivery of static and dynamic […]

Last week, I had the opportunity to attend and speak at TIA 2013 The Third Annual Conference of the Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA), which is the leading trade association representing the global information and communications technology (ICT) industry through standards development, policy initiatives, business opportunities, market intelligence and networking events. The 3 1/2 day conferences […]

My colleague Chetan Dandekar brings word of a powerful enhancement to AWS CloudFormation that will make it an even better fit for large-scale corporate deployments. — Jeff; AWS CloudFormation gives developers and systems administrators an easy way to create and manage a collection of AWS resources. Today, we added support for the CloudFormation APIs to […]

We ran the first EC2 Spotathon last year, and announced the results at the first re:Invent conference. We invited participants to use EC2 Spot Instances to save time and money, and to make their businesses more interesting and efficient. We awarded the Grand Prize to PiCloud and the Runner-Up Prize to Princeton Consultants, with honorable […]