Author: Jeff Barr

AWS has achieved FedRAMP compliance now federal agencies can save significant time, costs and resources in their evaluation of AWS! After demonstrating adherence to hundreds of controls by providing thousands of artifacts as part of a security assessment, AWS has been certified by a FedRAMP-accredited third-party assessor (3PAO) and has achieved agency ATOs (Authority to […]

Let’s take a quick look at what happened in AWS-land last week: Monday, May 13 The AWS Security Blog covered an important compliance announcement: The availability of a SOC-3 Report that includes both New Services and a New Region. Tuesday, May 14 We published a guide to Choosing the Right EC2 Instance Type for your […]

We released the Amazon Elastic Transcoder with an initial set of features and a promise to iterate quickly based on customer feedback. You’ve supplied us with plenty of feedback (primarily via the Elastic Transcoder Forum) and have a set of powerful enhancements ready as a result. Here’s what’s new: Apple HTTP Live Streaming (HLS) Support. […]

UPDATE (May 5, 2018) The capacity management capabilities of Amazon DynamoDB were enhanced after this blog post was published. As a result, the post references information that may no longer be the most accurate or a best practice. Pease read the DynamoDB documentation on Best Practices for Designing and Using Partition Keys Effectively to learn […]

Chris Barclay of the AWS OpsWorks team has put together a really nice guest post to introduce you to three new AWS OpsWorks features. — Jeff; We are pleased to announce three new AWS OpsWorks features that make it even easier to manage your applications: Elastic Load Balancing support, a monitoring view of your stacks […]

Over the past six or seven years I have had the opportunity to see customers of all sizes use Amazon EC2 to power their applications, including high traffic web sites, Genome analysis platforms, and SAP applications. I have learned that the developers of the most successful applications and services use a rigorous performance testing and […]

Let’s take a quick look at what happened in AWS-land last week: Monday, May 6 We announced that the AWS SDK for Node.js is now generally available. The AWS Security Blog discussed Writing IAM Policies to Grant Access to S3 Buckets. Tuesday, May 7 We announced that you can now Provision up to 4,000 PIOPs […]

After four months of planning and over 500 emails, I am less than 48 hours away from the start of my 5,000 mile road trip! I have created the AWS Road Trip site to give you the opportunity to follow my journey. I will be posting photos, videos, maps, and more as I make my […]

Amazon Web Services is sponsoring the new Animated Short Films category at this year’s Napa Valley Film Festival. This new category will encourage animated short film submissions and the use of technology to bring a story to life. We hope that this focus on animated filmmaking will provide the digital animation community with a platform […]

You can use AWS Direct Connect to create a dedicated network connection from your datacenter, office, or colocation environment to AWS. Connections are always made to a particular Direct Connect location, and can run at either 1 Gbps or 10 Gbps. We are making two important announcements today. First, we are opening up an AWS […]