Author: Jeff Barr

Let’s take a quick look at what happened in AWS-land last week: Monday, August 12 We announced that Amazon CloudFormation now performs Parallel Stack Processing and handles Nested Stack Updates. The AWS Mobile Development Blog publshed Part 3 of a series on the use of Amazon DynamoDB from Mobile Devices to show you how to […]

We have added two new features to Amazon Route 53. One feature will help you to manage your existing domains; the other one will help you to move an existing domain to Route 53. Health Check GraphsA few months ago we announced that Route 53 publishes the results of the health checks to Amazon CloudWatch. […]

Amazon Elastic MapReduce (EMR) accelerates big data analytics. It provides instant scalability and elasticity, letting you focus on analytics instead of infrastructure for your data-intenstive projects. Whether you are indexing large data sets or analyzing massive amounts of scientific data or processing clickstream logs, EMR simplifies running Hadoop and related big data applications on AWS.  When analyzing […]

In the latest episode of The AWS Report, I spoke with Dr. Farzin Shakib of Altair to learn more about their cloud-hosted CFDCalc application: — Jeff;

Does your mobile app keep on running in the cloud, even when the associated smartphone or tablet is closed? If so, you might want to proactively provide your customers with useful information. For example, a traffic app can warn of heavy traffic and a slow commute, allowing the user to arrive in time for their […]

My colleague Chetan Dandekar brings word of two powerful enhancements to AWS CloudFormation! — Jeff; AWS CloudFormation gives developers and systems administrators an easy way to create and manage a collection of related AWS resources, provisioning and updating them in an orderly and predictable fashion by using custom or predefined templates. Today, we introduce two […]

Let’s take a quick look at what happened in AWS-land last week: Monday, August 5 We published AWS customer success videos for Mortar Data and Zumba Fitness. Tuesday, August 6 We published a new white paper to show you how to run Couchbase on AWS. The AWS PHP Development Blog talked about Iterating Through Amazon […]

We added support for Amazon, Facebook, and Google identity federation to AWS IAM earlier this year. This poweful and important feature gives you the ability to grant temporary security credentials to users managed outside of AWS. In order to help you to learn more about how this feature works and to make it easier for […]

The University of Washington Department of Professional and Continuing Education is offering a three-quarter Cloud Application Development on AWS certificate program. If you are in the Seattle area you can take this course in a classroom. If not, you can take it online. I have been a member of the advisory group that developed this […]

As the third installement in our series of white papers that are designed to show you how to run popular relational and NoSQL databases on AWS, I am pleased to tell you that our new Couchbase on AWS white paper is now available. Written by AWS Solution Architects Kyle Lichtenberg and Miles Ward, this detailed […]