Author: Jeff Barr

Today I would like to give you a quick update on the latest AWS certification and to bring you up to date on some of the existing ones. Back in the early days of AWS and cloud computing, questions about security and compliance were fairly commonplace. These days, generally accepted wisdom seems to hold that […]

Amazon Route 53 is a highly available and scalable Domain Name Service. As you probably know, it translates domain names in to numerical IP addresses. This level of indirection allows you to refer to a computer by its name (which usually remains the same for an extended period of time) instead of by its address […]

It is time for a brief update on Amazon Redshift, our fast, easy-to-use, petabyte-scale, cost-effective (as little as $1000 per Terabyte per year) data warehouse service. We have added resource tagging, better query management, enhancements to data load and unload, and 16 new SQL commands and functions. Let’s take a look at each of these […]

If you have been to the first and/or second AWS re:Invent, you know how to prepare and you know how to get the most out of your time in Las Vegas. If this is your first time, you’ll appreciate this Newbie Guide that my colleague Tracy Laxdal has put together! — Jeff; There’s only one […]

I have become a frequent and devoted user of Amazon Zocalo! I draft my blog posts, share them with the Product Manager and other interested parties via Zocalo, and wait for the comments, suggestions, and other feedback to arrive. Given that I generally have between 8 and 10 blog post drafts underway, I have grown […]

Our friends at SUSE recently announced the release of SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12. This release introduces a new module-based system that allows customers to stay current with the desired parts of the software stack while sticking with a stable set of core packages. I am happy to announce that this new release is now […]

My friends on the DynamoDB team sent me a tasty bribe (courtesy of Seattle’s Trophy Cupcakes) in a successful attempt to get me to tell you about some features that I didn’t have time to tell you about earlier this month! As you may know from my previous post, we launched support for JSON, increased […]

Let’s take a quick look at what happened in AWS-land last week: Monday, October 27 We announced that Amazon Elastic Transcoder API Calls are now Available in CloudTrail. A post on the Databricks blog earlier this month talked about Spark the Fastest Open Source Engine for Sorting a Petabyte. A post on the AWS Java Blog […]