Author: Jeff Barr

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 […]

Let’s take a quick look at what happened in AWS-land last week: Monday, July 29 The AWS Security Blog published an article to show you how to Improve the Security of your AWS Account in Less Than 5 Minutes. Tuesday, July 30 We annouced that Elastic Load Balancing now supports the Proxy Protocol. Wednesday, July […]

The Amazon Simple Workflow Service (SWF) lets you build scalable, event-driven systems that coordinate work across many machines that can be either cloud-based or on-premises. The service handles coordination, logging, and auditing so that you don’t need to write a bunch of glue code or to maintain your own state machines. Instead, you can focus […]

My colleague Lesley Mbogo is a Senior Product Manager on the Elastic Load Balancing team. She sent along the post below to tell you all about an important new feature — support for the Proxy Protocol. — Jeff; Starting today, Elastic Load Balancing (ELB) supports Proxy Protocol version 1. You can now identify the originating […]

Would you like to test-drive AWS services, acquire some new skills, and gain practical experience working with a wide variety of AWS technologies? If so, the new AWS self-paced labs will be of great interest to you. We’ve been working with Cloud vLab (an APN Technology Partner) to create a set of hands-on, self-paced online […]