Author: Jeff Barr

We have made two additions to the AWS Console mobile app (available on Amazon Appstore, Google Play, and iTunes). You can view the status of your AWS CloudFormation stacks and you can edit the min, max, and desired capacities of your Auto Scaling groups. Here’s the main screen of the newly revised console: CloudFormation Features […]

Perhaps you, like many other AWS users, store and process  huge amounts of data in the cloud. Today we are announcing a new generation of Dense-storage instances that will provide you additional options for processing multi-terabyte data sets. New D2 Instances The new D2 instances are designed to provide you with additional compute power and […]

`Let’s take a quick look at what happened in AWS-land last week: Monday, March 23 A post on the AWS Java Blog provided a helpful pointer to some new documentation on Amazon S3 Client-side Crypto Meta Information. The AWS Security Blog disclosed the availability of a New Security and Compliance Workbook: IT-Grundschultz. Tuesday, March 24 […]

Many AWS customers use tags (key/value pairs) to organize their AWS resources. A recent Reddit thread (Share with us your AWS Tagging standards) provides a nice glimpse into some popular tagging strategies and practices. Late last year we launched Resource Groups and Tag Editor. We gave you the ability to use Resource Groups to create, […]

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. […]