Author: Jeff Barr

We have set up a new AWS Webinar Series. In March you can attend a webinar and Get started with AWS or a specific AWS Service (OpsWorks or WorkSpaces), master an AWS service (EC2), learn AWS best practices (content delivery, availability, or security), deploy enterprise workloads (SAP), or optimize for cost and performance (RDS). The […]

Let’s take a quick look at what happened in AWS-land last week: Monday, March 2 We announced Amazon EMR Support for New Instance Families and a Price Reduction in the AWS GovCloud (US) region. The N2W Blog showed you How-to Backup Your AWS Cloud Based PostgreSQL Database. The Cloud Academy Blog talked about Windows Server […]

We have updated AWS Management Portal for vCenter. This plug-in runs within your existing vCenter environment and gives you the power to migrate VMware VMs to Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) and to manage AWS resources from within vCenter. Today’s update includes automatic upgrades, log uploading, and queued import tasks. Automatic Upgrades The management […]

My colleague Sivakanth Mundru sent me a guest post with CloudTrail and CloudWatch integration news, along with information about a new CloudFormation template to help you to get going more quickly. — Jeff; At re: Invent 2014, we launched AWS CloudTrail integration with Amazon CloudWatch Logs in the US East (N. Virginia), Europe (Ireland), and […]

Amazon Cognito makes it easy for you to save user data such as app preferences in the AWS Cloud without writing any backend logic or managing any infrastructure. You can focus on creating a great app instead of worrying about creating server-side code to handle identity management, network state, storage, and sync. Today we are […]

I am already looking forward to my fourth re:Invent! This year’s conference will take place from October 6 to 9 in Las Vegas. We’ll be announcing more details and opening up the registration system in May. You can sign up here in order to receive email updates. We are already working on the services, presentations, […]

Continuing with my series of interviews from the AWS Pop-up Loft, I spoke with Vaibhav Mallya of OfferLetter.io. We chatted about his time at Amazon and Twitter, and his motivation for founding his own company. You can listen to the full interview to learn a lot more. As a special bonus for podcast listeners, Vaibhav […]

Amazon Kinesis is at home in situations where data arrives in a continuous stream. It is real-time and elastic and you can use it to reliably deliver any amount of data to your mission-critical applications. Today we are making an important change to Kinesis. You can now retrieve records (data) immediately after a successful PutRecord […]