Author: Jeff Barr

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 […]

Let’s take a quick look at what happened in AWS-land last week: Monday, August 12 We announced that Amazon CloudFormation now performs Parallel Stack Processing and handles Nested Stack Updates. The AWS Mobile Development Blog publshed Part 3 of a series on the use of Amazon DynamoDB from Mobile Devices to show you how to […]

We have added two new features to Amazon Route 53. One feature will help you to manage your existing domains; the other one will help you to move an existing domain to Route 53. Health Check GraphsA few months ago we announced that Route 53 publishes the results of the health checks to Amazon CloudWatch. […]

Amazon Elastic MapReduce (EMR) accelerates big data analytics. It provides instant scalability and elasticity, letting you focus on analytics instead of infrastructure for your data-intenstive projects. Whether you are indexing large data sets or analyzing massive amounts of scientific data or processing clickstream logs, EMR simplifies running Hadoop and related big data applications on AWS.  When analyzing […]