Author: Jeff Barr

Today, it is relatively straightforward and inexpensive to observe and collect vast amounts of operational data about a system, product, or process. Not surprisingly, there can be tremendous amounts of information buried within gigabytes of customer purchase data, web site navigation trails, or responses to email campaigns. The good news is that all of this […]

I’d like to give you a preview of a new AWS service that will make its debut later this year. Let’s take a quick look at the AWS storage portfolio. We currently offer: Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) for object storage, presented as buckets of objects and accessible over the Internet using URLs or […]

We have recently broadened the AWS Training portfolio in order to do an even better job of meeting your needs. Here are the newest offerings: AWS Business Essentials is a new workshop for IT business decision makers.  It’s designed to help you understand the benefits of cloud computing and how a cloud strategy can help […]

AWS Config lets you track changes to your AWS resources over time (read my AWS re:Invent post, Track AWS Resource Configurations With AWS Config for more information, and my AWS Config Update for a walk-through). Today we are making AWS Config available in five additional AWS regions. We are also making Config’s email notification messages […]

When I speak with enterprises and mid-sized companies about their plans to move to the Cloud, they often ask me to recommend solution providers that are skilled in the application of AWS and that also have expertise in a particular business domain. We are continuing to add value to the AWS Partner Network (APN) by […]

Let’s take a quick look at what happened in AWS-land last week: Monday, March 30 AWS Evangelist Ian Massingham reviewed the AWS User Group UK (London), Hull and North (Manchester) Meetups. We added several new presentations to SlideShare including RDS – Letting AWS run your Low Admin, High Performance Database and Delivering Mobile Apps Using […]

My colleague Omid Behzadian sent a guest post to introduce an important new feature for Amazon Elastic Transcoder. — Jeff;   You can now use Amazon Elastic Transcoder to apply Microsoft PlayReady DRM protection to your Smooth Streaming and HLS outputs. When creating your transcoding job, simply include the encryption key and license server URL […]

My colleague Andy Troutman wrote up the guest post below to share news of a powerful new way to use AWS CodeDeploy. — Jeff; Customers use AWS CodeDeploy to manage application updates to their Amazon EC2 instances. CodeDeploy allows developers and administrators to centrally control and track their application deployments across different development, testing, and […]