Author: Jeff Barr

Would you like to test-drive AWS services, acquire some new skills, and gain practical experience working with a wide variety of AWS technologies? If so, the new AWS self-paced labs will be of great interest to you. We’ve been working with Cloud vLab (an APN Technology Partner) to create a set of hands-on, self-paced online […]

Let’s take a quick look at what happened in AWS-land last week: Monday, July 22 We added a number of new AWS case studies including Genome Medicine Institute, Hailo,  Rover.com, and The Schumacher Group. The AWS Security Blog talked about Controlling Network Access to EC2 Instances Using a Bastion Host. Tuesday, July 23 Building on […]

During my recent trip to Southeast Asia, several people asked me if we had plans to bring Amazon CloudFront and Route 53 to India. I responded as I always do — that we continue to invest and to expand, that we listen to our users, and that we make use of traffic and usage trends […]

Tom Rizzo provides an update on AWS developer tools for Windows, and brings word of a Developer Preview of the next version of the AWS SDK for .NET. — Jeff; Over the last few months, we have released a number of enhancements to help customers and partners build their Microsoft Windows centric workloads on AWS.  […]

You can now upload videos to your Amazon Cloud Drive and view them on your Kindle or your Android device. With support for a multitude of file formats and video codecs, implementing this feature from scratch would have been a lengthy and technically challenging undertaking. Cloud Drive already uses multiple AWS service, so using  Amazon […]

My colleague Chris Barclay sent along a blog post with great news for users of AWS OpsWorks! — Jeff; We are happy to introduce two new features for AWS OpsWorks that make it easier for you to manage applications: support for custom Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) and Chef 11. You can use these new features […]

Many academic and scientific conferences include a poster session. What’s That?Researchers describe their research and their results on an informative poster which they bring to the conference, where it is set up for display. The researchers stand by their posters to answer questions about the work and to discuss it with the attendees. Posters sessions […]

My colleague Joe Ziegler wrote the report below to recap and summarize the recent Cloud Kata event that we held in conjunction with the AWS Summit in Singapore. — Jeff; SummaryAWS held the first Cloud Kata for Startups event in Singapore at the Marina Bay Sands on July 17th, bringing together over 800 entrepreneurs, developers, […]

Let’s take a quick look at what happened in AWS-land last week: Monday, July 15 We released the Choosing a Cloud Platform page. This happened a few weeks ago but I forgot to mention it. Tuesday, July 16 The AWS Security Blog published part 3 of a series on securing access to AWS using MFA. […]

Tom Rizzo, A General Manager on the Amazon EC2 team, sent along today’s guest post. — Jinesh; Over the last few months we have released some powerful Windows enhancements to AWS including AWS Management Pack for Microsoft System Center and Guidance for Microsoft SQL Server AlwaysOn Availability Groups. Building on the popularity of our SQL […]