Author: Jeff Barr

We’ve made some important updates to Amazon Cognito! As you may already know, this service makes it easy for you to save user data such as app preferences or game state in the AWS cloud without writing any backend code or managing any infrastructure. Here’s what’s new: Developer-oriented access to the sync store. Updated AWS […]

My colleague Janna Pellegrino sent me a guest post to introduce some new materials to help you to prepare for the AWS Certified Solutions Architect exam! — Jeff; Are you planning to take the AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate exam?  We now have a new half-day workshop to help you prepare.  Designed to complement […]

Would you like to run Exchange Server 2013 on AWS? If so, I’ve got some good news for you! Our newest Quick Start Reference Deployment will show you how to do just that. Formally titled Microsoft Exchange Server 2013 on the AWS Cloud, this 34 page document addresses all of the architectural considerations needed to […]

Let’s take a quick look at what happened in AWS-land last week: Monday, January 12 We released version 0.0.18 of cfncluster; see the CHANGELOG for more information and be sure to read the new cfncluster documentation. Lambdaws cloudifies any JavaScript function for use with AWS Lambda. a post on the AWS Startup Collection discussed DynamoDB […]

An important rule when building a highly available and highly reliable system is to design for failure. In other words, your design model should assume that, as Amazon CTO Werner Vogels has said, “everything fails all the time.” Fortunately, modern data centers, networks, and servers are highly reliable, and failures are the exception rather than […]

Amazon Elastic Transcoder lets you convert media files in to versions that will play on smart phones, tablets, PCs, and smart TVs.  As I have mentioned in the past, it takes care of all of the more tedious aspects of the media transcoding process on your behalf. You create a transcoding job and Elastic Transcoder […]

Let’s take a quick look at what happened in AWS-land last week: Monday, January 5 We announced that you can now Import AWS Data Pipeline Definitions in the AWS Management Console. We announced the availability of EC2 Spot Instance Termination Notices. We made an AWS GovCloud (US) Update – Glacier, VM Import, CloudTrail, and More. […]

Late last year ago I told you about the New Compute-Optimized EC2 Instances and asked you to stay tuned for additional pricing and technical information. I am happy to announce that we are launching these instances today in seven AWS Regions! The New C4 Instance Type The new C4 instances are based on the Intel […]