Author: Jeff Barr

I would like to tell you about a new AWS feature that will allow you to make even better use of Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) and Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3). As you probably know, S3 provides you with secure, durable, and highly scalable object storage. You can use the Amazon VPC […]

The AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS) provides you with seamless, centralized control over your encryption keys. As I noted when we launched the service (see my post, New AWS Key Management Service, for more information), this service gives you a new option for data protection and relieves you of many of the more onerous […]

As part of a trip to New York last month, I paid a visit to the headquarters of Oscar Health to learn more about what they do and how they use AWS. I sat down with Brent Langston (Site Reliability Engineer) and Mackenzie Kosut (Head of Technical Operations) to learn more. All About Oscar Oscar […]

Let’s take a quick look at what happened in AWS-land last week: Monday, April 27 We announced Improved JSON Editing and Key Condition Expressions for DynamoDB. We announced Vault Access Policies for Amazon Glacier. We announced that the EC2 Container Service is now Available in the Asia Pacific (Sydney) Region. The Realestate.com.au Tech Blog announced […]

We have added another AWS Quick Start Reference Deployment. The new SAP Business One, Version for SAP HANA document will show you how to get on the fast track to plan, deploy, and configure this enterprise resource planning (ERP) solution. It is powered by SAP HANA, SAP’s in-memory database. This deployment builds on our existing […]

The guest blog post below was written by Jaehyun Wie while he was a developer intern on the AWS Elastic Beanstalk Team. It shows you how to run your Docker apps locally using the Elastic Beanstalk Command Line Interface (CLI). — Jeff; The Elastic Beanstalk command line interface (EB CLI) makes it easier for developers, […]

I have become a devoted user of Amazon WorkDocs. I draft my blog posts (including this one) and then use WorkDocs to route them to the appropriate people and teams for review and translation. On an average day I probably upload new versions of 4 or 5 draft blog posts and review and respond to […]

The skills and techniques needed to create, store, process, and manage data sets that start in the hundreds of gigabytes and grow to multiple terabyte size are all too rare. It is time to change that! We have teamed up with the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) to create the new AstroCompute in the Cloud grant […]