Author: Jeff Barr

If you are a regular reader of this blog, you know that I am a huge fan of the Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS). Over the course of the last couple of years, I have seen that my audiences really appreciate the way that RDS obviates a number of tedious yet mission-critical tasks that are […]

We launched Amazon ElastiCache about two years ago, and have steadily added features ever since. In the last two years we have added auto discovery, additional cache node types, and reserved cache nodes. We’ve reduced prices several times and we have added support for additional AWS Regions and VPC. Today we are taking a big […]

Graphical user interfaces (e.g. the AWS Management Console) are great, but nothing beats the expressiveness of the command line! Today we are releasing the AWS Command Line Interface (CLI). The AWS CLI provides a single, unified interface to a very large collection of AWS services. After downloading and configuring the CLI you can drive Amazon […]

Let’s take a quick look at what happened in AWS-land last week: Monday, August 26 The AWS Security Blog published a post to help answer the question Where’s My Secret Access Key? Tuesday, August 27 The AWS Ruby Development Blog announced a new Gem that allows you to use DynamoDB as a Session Store for […]

If you use Amazon RDS, you probably understand the ease with which you can create read replicas to increase the scalability and performance of your database-backed applications. Today we are extending this feature to decrease replica creation time, increase snapshot performance, and give you even more read throughput. Let’s take a closer look… Parallel Replica […]

In the latest episode of The AWS Report, I spoke with Darren Platt of Symplified to learn more about identity, identity management & federation, the history of SAML, and how it relates to the cloud. In a very entertaining segment, co-host Lee Zen hits the street to learn more about OAuth. If you can take […]

Let’s take a quick look at what happened in AWS-land last week: Monday, August 19 The AWS Security Blog announced that the 2013 PCI Compliance Package is Now Available. Tuesday, August 20 We announced that you now have Additional IP Address Flexibility in the Virtual Private Cloud. Wednesday, August 21 The AWS Java Development Blog […]

In the latest episode of The AWS Report, I spoke with Senior Product Manager Nihar Bihani to learn more about Amazon CloudFront — what it is, what it does, and how our customers are using it. Nihar also provided a few hints about where CloudFront will be going in the future. My new co-host, Lee-Ming […]

VPC So FarThe Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) lets you provision a logically isolated section of the AWS Cloud where you can launch AWS resources in a virtual network that you define. Earlier this year, in my post Virtual Private Clouds for Everyone, I outlined some important changes to Amazon EC2 which combine its ease […]

In the latest episode of The AWS Report, I spoke with Travis Broughton of Intel to learn more about their Expressway Service Gateway product. This is the first interview that I conducted on our new set (bye-bye Space Needle, goodbye to endless production delays due to ever-changing natural lighting). My new co-host, Lee-Ming Zen, makes […]