Author: Jeff Barr

We announced the AWS Managed Service Partner program at last year’s AWS re:Invent. We created the program in order to help our customers to find AWS Partner Network (APN) Partners who can deliver managed services in the cloud. In order for an APN Partner to become an approved member of this program, the quality of […]

Let’s take a quick look at what happened in AWS-land last week: Monday, March 16 We announced that the EC2 Container Service is now Available in the EU (Ireland) Region. We published the Second Release Candidate of the Amazon Linux AMI. We updated the AWS SDK for Unity. Tuesday, March 17 The AWS Security Blog […]

My colleague Jed Sundwall wrote the guest post below to show you how one of the newest AWS Public Data Sets is being put to use. — Jeff; You can now access over 85,000 Landsat 8  scenes through our newest Public Data Set: Landsat on AWS. The scenes are all available in the landsat-pds bucket […]

Last year I told you about Larger and Faster EBS Volumes and asked you to stay tuned for availability. Starting today you can create Provisioned IOPS (SSD) volumes that store up to 16 TB (terabytes) and process up to 20,000 IOPS, with a maximum throughput of 320 MBps (megabytes per second). You can also create […]

Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) makes it easy for you to set up, operate, and scale a MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQL Server, or Oracle relational database in the cloud. Today we are adding support for version 9.4.1 of PostgreSQL to RDS. Among other features, this version allows you to store JSON data in a compact, decomposed […]

take a quick look at what happened in AWS-land last week: Monday, March 9 The GitLab Blog talked about Moving All Your Data, 9 TB Edition. A post on the Cloudyn Blog discussed AWS’ New Powerful C4 Instance and The Complete EC2 Families Guide. A post on the CB Insights Blog asked and answered How […]

Amazon Elastic Transcoder converts (transcodes) media (video and audio) files into renditions optimized for playback on desktops, mobile devices, tablets, and televisions. Today, we are making Elastic Transcoder even more useful! We’ve added support for generating NTSC outputs (the television standard used in the United States and Canada), and PAL outputs (the standard used in […]

My colleague Omid Behzadian sent a guest post with information about a useful new feature for CloudFront. — Jeff; Amazon CloudFront now gives you a new way to secure your private content: CloudFront signed HTTP cookies. In the past, you could control who is able to access your CloudFront content by adding a custom signature […]