Author: Jeff Barr

In the latest episode of The AWS Report, I spoke with Marc Nager to learn more about Startup Weekend and how they answer the question “where do you go when you have a great idea?” He walks me through the 54 hours of the weekend (which starts on Wednesday in some countries) culminating in the […]

Max Spevack of the AWS Kernel and Operating Systems (KaOS) team brings news of the latest Amazon Linux AMI. — Jeff; Its been another six months, so its time for a fresh release of the Amazon Linux AMI.  Today, we are pleased to announce that the Amazon Linux AMI 2013.09 is available. This release marks […]

After 35 years in the IT business, I have seen an incredible amount of change. From mainframes to minicomputers to personal computers, and now to dynamic cloud-based infrastructure, each technology generation promises increased power, greater flexibility, lower costs, and broader applicability. I recently returned from a trip to Washington DC where I was able to […]

Let’s take a quick look at what happened in AWS-land last week: Monday, September 23 We added five new AWS Case Studies. The first two are in Korean: AppDisco and DevSisters. The other three are in English: Dow Jones, LinkedIn, and Trend Micro. We announced that you can now Enable Single Sign-On to the AWS […]

We will have plenty of content and activities for start-ups at this year’s AWS re:Invent conference. In addition to the training bootcamps that will give you the technical knowledge needed to build your AWS-powered startup, we have a wide variety of sessions to help you learn about AWS and to hear how your peers are […]

Amazon RDS for Oracle Database now supports Oracle Statspack. You can use Oracle Statspack to collect and analyze database performance metrics and use them to diagnose problems and to increase performance. The Oracle Statspack is available for all Oracle editions and engine versions supported by Amazon RDS for Oracle. You can install it on your […]

In the latest episode of The AWS Report, I spoke with my colleague Manish Dalwadi to get an update on the Amazon Relational Database Service. As Senior Product Manager, Manish listens to customers and sets the overall direction for RDS. In this episode he reviews the “undifferentiated heavy lifting” that RDS does, describes some customers […]

Amazon CloudFront distributes dynamic and static web content produced by an origin server to viewers located anywhere in the world. If the user requests objects that don’t exist (i.e., a 404 Not Found response) or an unauthorized user might attempt to download an object (i.e., a 403 Forbidden response), CloudFront used to display a brief […]

One of the most powerful features of AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) is its ability to issue temporary security credentials and grant controlled access to people in a network without having to define individual identities for each user (i.e., identity federation). This enables customers to extend their existing authentication systems and allow users to Single […]

In the latest episode of The AWS Report, I spoke with my colleague Tracy Laxdal to learn more about what she and her team are planning for this year’s AWS re:Invent conference in Las Vegas. We talked about what it was like to walk in to the keynote in the presence of 6,000 AWS users […]