Author: Jeff Barr

As you know, we launched our new compute optimized instance family (C3) a few weeks ago, and wow, are we seeing unprecedented demand across all sizes and all Regions!  As one of our product managers just told me, these instances are simply “fast in every dimension.” They have a high performance CPU, matched with SSD-based […]

As I promised a few weeks ago, Amazon DynamoDB now supports Global Secondary Indexes. You can now create indexes and perform lookups using attributes other than the item’s primary key. With this change, DynamoDB goes beyond the functionality traditionally provided by a key/value store, while retaining the scalability and performance benefits that have made it […]

My colleague Abhishek Singh sent along a guest post to introduce a really important new feature for AWS Elastic Beanstalk. — Jeff; You can now launch Worker Tier environments in Elastic Beanstalk. These environments are optimized to process application background tasks at any scale. Worker tiers complement the existing web tiers and are ideal for time […]

Amazon EC2’s Auto Scaling feature gives you the power to build systems that adapt to a workload that varies over time. You can scale out to meet peak demand, and then scale in later to minimize costs. Today we are adding Auto Scaling support to the AWS Management Console. You can now create launch configurations […]

The AWS Marketplace provides an easy way for sellers (ISVs / Independent Software Vendors and VARs / Value Added Resellers) to market and sell their software to developers and IT professionals. Today we are introducing a new AWS Marketplace Management Portal. This portal provides our partners with access to demand generation and business metrics reports, […]

Let’s take a quick look at what happened in AWS-land last week: Monday, December 2 This week AWS Marketplace added new products including and OpenPhoto, Tendenci, Observium, PaaSLane, CloudWeaver, Chariot Data Broker and Moovweb. Tuesday, December 3 I noticed that the EC2 Public IP Address Ranges were updated. Wednesday, December 4 The US East (Northern […]

Amazon Elastic MapReduce gives you the power to process vast amounts of data using Hadoop, an open source parallel processing framework. Behind the scenes, each Elastic MapReduce cluster runs on an array of Amazon EC2 instances. These clusters can grow to hundreds or even thousands of instances, and you can even run several clusters at […]

My colleague Chris Barclay reports on an important new feature for AWS OpsWorks! — Jeff; I am pleased to announce that AWS OpsWorks now supports resource-level permissions. AWS OpsWorks is an application management service that lets you provision resources, deploy and update software, automate common operational tasks, and monitor the state of your environment. You […]

Let’s take a quick look at what happened in AWS-land last week: Monday, November 25 The AWS Ruby blog coverered test case development in a pair of posts: From RSpec to Minitest and from Minitest::Spec to Minitest::Test. Tuesday, November 26 We announced that Amazon RDS Now Supports Cross-Region Read Replicas for MySQL. The AWS .Net […]

You can now create cross-region read replicas for Amazon RDS database instances! This feature builds upon our existing support for read replicas that reside within the same region as the source database instance. You can now create up to five in-region and cross-region replicas per source with a single API call or a couple of […]