Author: Jeff Barr

The AWS Trusted Advisor inspects your AWS environment and makes recommendations when opportunities exist to save money, improve system performance, or close security gaps. Improved User InterfaceWe’ve made a host of improvements to the user interface of the Trusted Advisor. The dashboard contains additional information and the navigation is both cleaner and simpler. The Cost […]

We have been working with the NASA Earth Exchange (NEX) team to make it easier and more efficient for researchers to access and process earth science data. The goal is to make a number of important data sets accessible to a wider audience of full-time researchers, students, and citizen scientists. This important new project is […]

Have you used the AWS Marketplace? You can find, buy, and start using over 800 popular AMIs (Amazon Machine Images) in 24 categories using the Marketplace, with more products added every week. Today we are making the AWS Marketplace even easier to use by making it accessible from within the EC2 tab of the AWS […]

Ben Brauer, Senior Product Manager on the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) team, sent along a guest post describing a new, industry standard way to do identity federation with AWS. — Jeff; Over the years, weve had a number of blog posts that described how AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) enables identity federation. […]

We have added a very large collection of new features to Amazon Redshift. You now have more options and more ways to organize and query your petabyte-scale data warehouse. Here’s a summary: Distributed Tables – You now have more control over the distribution of a table’s rows across compute nodes. Remote Loading – You can […]

In the latest episode of The AWS Report, I spoke with Joe Vaccaro of Citrix to learn more about the topic of desktop virtualization. Co-host Lee Zen chatted with our colleague Eric Schultze to learn more about the Virtual Private Cloud. If you can take a minute to fill out our video survey after you […]

Let’s take a quick look at what happened in AWS-land last week: Monday, November 4 I published an AWS Report interview with Peng Zhao of MadeiraCloud. We opened the AWS Compliance Forum. We launched the G2 Instance Type for 3-D Streaming Applications. We announced a Price Reduction for EC2’s M3 Instances. The AWS Application Management […]

In the latest episode of The AWS Report, I spoke with my colleague Steven Halliwell, Global Director of Education and State/Local Government for AWS. We discussed the digital divide, the ways that AWS is used in education (websites, portals, MOOCs, and learning management systems, to name a few), and some specific success stories. We also […]

Chris Barclay sent along an awesome guest post to announce the arrival of AWS OpsWorks for Java! — Jeff; I am pleased to announce that AWS OpsWorks now supports Java applications. AWS OpsWorks is an application management service that makes it easy to model and manage your entire application. You can start from templates for […]

Amazon RDS for Microsoft SQL Server now supports the use of Transparent Data Encryption (TDE). Once enabled, the database instance encrypts data before it is stored in the database and decrypts it after it is retrieved. You can use this feature in conjunction with our previously announced support for SSL connections to SQL Server to […]