Author: Jeff Barr

I have written about the AWS Training and Certification program several times in the past year or so. We want to help you to learn more about how to design, build, and run applications on AWS (that’s the training part). We also want to give you the opportunity to demonstrate your AWS skills (certification). The […]

The AWS Marketplace helps you to find, buy, and immediately start using a wide variety of software and services. You can launch pre-configured software and pay only for what you use, by the hour or by the month. Today we are simplifying the process of launching networking and security software products from the Marketplace inside […]

Let’s take a quick look at what happened in AWS-land last week: Monday, January 6 I noticed that the EC2 Public IP Address Ranges had been updated. Tuesday, January 7 We added Two New Locations (Taipei and Rio de Janeiro) for Amazon CloudFront and Route 53. Wednesday, January 8 The Amazon Mobile App Distribution Blog […]

I am happy to announce the launch of edge locations in Taipei, Taiwan and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil for Amazon CloudFront and Amazon Route 53. This is our first edge location in Taiwan and our second edge location in Brazil (joining So Paulo). Global CoverageThese new locations will improve performance and availability for end users […]

Minecraft appears to be the gaming and visual building environment of choice for today’s youth! Pretty much everyone I know in the 8-18 age range admits to spending a lot of time in-world. The game’s outward simplicity hides an environment of considerable richness and complexity, with many interesting emergent properties. The game runs in single […]

Let’s take a quick look at what happened in AWS-land over the last two weeks: Monday, December 23 The AWS Mobile Development Blog talked about Retrieving Media on Android with KitKat. Thursday, December 26 The AWS Ruby Development Blog talked about Using RSpec 3. Friday, December 27 The AWS Application Management Blog discussed Resource Condition […]

We have added a pair of new API functions to Auto Scaling and we have made another pair of existing functions more powerful. New FunctionsDescribeAccountLimits tells you the maximum number of Launch Configurations and Auto Scaling Groups set for your account. If you need more of either one, simply fill out the EC2 Instance Request […]

Let’s take a quick look at what happened in AWS-land last week: Monday, December 16 We announced that VM Import/Export Now Supports Linux. The AWS Mobile Development Blog showed how to Simplify Token Vending Machine Deployment with AWS CloudFormation. Tuesday, December 17 We announced that Amazon Kinesis is now available in Public Beta. We announced […]

I am happy to announce a reduction in the On Demand and Reserved Instance (RI) prices for EC2’s HI1 (First Generation High I/O Performance) instances in select AWS regions, effective December 1, 2013, along with availability in the form of Spot Instances The HI1 instances feature 16 vCPUs (Virtual CPUs), 60.5 GiB of RAM, 2 […]

Late last month I gave you a sneak peak at our newest EC2 instance type, the I2. These instance types are available today, in four sizes across seven AWS regions. The I2 instance type was designed to host I/O intensive workloads typically generated by relational databases, NoSQL databases, and transactional systems. The largest I2 instance […]