Author: Jeff Barr

I’m happy to announce that the following EC2 instance types are now available in the Asia Pacific (Tokyo) Region and that you can start using them today: Cluster Compute Eight Extra Large (cc2.8xlarge) – With 60.5 GiB of RAM, a pair of Intel Xeon E5-2670 processors, and 3.3 TB of instance storage, the very high […]

Let’s take a quick look at what happened in AWS-land last week: Monday, May 27 We released another an AWS customer success story to highlight Mentor Graphics. Tuesday, May 28 We announced that AWS IAM Now Supports Amazon, Facebook, and Google Identity Federation. Wednesday, May 29 The AWS Security Blog talked about the API options […]

I’m happy to announce that Route 53 DNS Failover now supports Elastic Load Balancing (ELB) endpoints. Route 53 launched DNS Failover on February 11, 2013. With DNS Failover, Route 53 can detect an outage of your website and redirect your end users to alternate or backup locations that you specify. Route 53 DNS Failover relies […]

Jeff Wierer, Principal Product Manager on the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) team sent along a guest post to introduce a powerful new federation feature. — Jeff; In a previous blog post we discussed how AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) supports identity federation by allowing developers to grant temporary security credentials to users […]

When you travel as much as I do, you tend to think about getting sick or injured while away from home. I don’t worry too much about the quality of the care that’s available in the developed world, but I do worry about being able to explain my symptoms and to understand the diagnosis and […]

Let’s take a quick look at what happened in AWS-land last week: Monday, May 20 We annouced that the AWS Elastic Load Balancer now supports all HTTP methods. Tuesday, May 21 We announced that AWS has achived FedRAMP Compliance. The AWS Security Blog contains additional information. Thursday, May 23 We added Read Replica Monitoring to […]

My counterpart in Germany, AWS Evangelist Steffen Krause, has put together the blog post below to show you how to launch and exercise SAP HANA One on AWS. Steffen is also responsible for the German language AWSAktuell blog. — Jeff;   An interesting software product that created a lot of buzz lately is SAP HANA. […]

Amazon RDS for MySQL has long had the ability to create Read Replicas. You can do this with a couple of clicks in the AWS Management Console. Each read replica runs as a slave to the master database instance. Under certain circumstances, replication can stop. This can happen if you cause a replication error by […]

AWS has achieved FedRAMP compliance now federal agencies can save significant time, costs and resources in their evaluation of AWS! After demonstrating adherence to hundreds of controls by providing thousands of artifacts as part of a security assessment, AWS has been certified by a FedRAMP-accredited third-party assessor (3PAO) and has achieved agency ATOs (Authority to […]

Let’s take a quick look at what happened in AWS-land last week: Monday, May 13 The AWS Security Blog covered an important compliance announcement: The availability of a SOC-3 Report that includes both New Services and a New Region. Tuesday, May 14 We published a guide to Choosing the Right EC2 Instance Type for your […]