Author: Jeff Barr

Last week, I had the opportunity to attend and speak at TIA 2013 The Third Annual Conference of the Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA), which is the leading trade association representing the global information and communications technology (ICT) industry through standards development, policy initiatives, business opportunities, market intelligence and networking events. The 3 1/2 day conferences […]

My colleague Chetan Dandekar brings word of a powerful enhancement to AWS CloudFormation that will make it an even better fit for large-scale corporate deployments. — Jeff; AWS CloudFormation gives developers and systems administrators an easy way to create and manage a collection of AWS resources. Today, we added support for the CloudFormation APIs to […]

We ran the first EC2 Spotathon last year, and announced the results at the first re:Invent conference. We invited participants to use EC2 Spot Instances to save time and money, and to make their businesses more interesting and efficient. We awarded the Grand Prize to PiCloud and the Runner-Up Prize to Princeton Consultants, with honorable […]

Let’s take a quick look at what happened in AWS-land last week: Monday, October 7 We introduced the Alfresco Test Drive Labs with complimentary access to five apps for education and demo purposes. We introduced a bunch of new Japanese-language case studies including Consumer First, DIP. Intage, Misawa, Roland, Smaregi, UEC Tokyo, Tokyu Hands, and […]

We launched the first part of the EC2 Reserved Instance Modification feature last month. At that time we gave you the ability to modify the Availability Zone and the Network Platform (EC2-Classic or VPC) of your EC2 Reserved Instances. Today we are giving you the ability to change the instance type of your Linux/UNIX reservations. […]

The AWS cloud is a very nice home for startups. You can start small (perhaps with nothing more than a static web page hosted on Amazon S3) and then grow to world-scale as your business develops and grows. You can even participate in the annual AWS Startup Challenge! In order to make it even easier […]

Amazon Glacier is a storage service designed for backup and archiving. Glacier provides secure, durable storage at an extremely low cost. Introduced a little over a year ago, Glacier has been growing quickly. Our customers are using Glacier for digital preservation, online backup of historical assets, archiving of cold media data, storage of operational data […]

The EC2 instances on the Amazon EC2 Instance Types menu are designed to run a wide variety of workloads. You can now launch hs1.8xlarge instances in the Asia Pacific (Sydney) and Asia Pacific (Singapore) Regions using the On-Demand or Reserved Instance pricing models. You can now run your Amazon Redshift clusters, storage-intensive Hadoop jobs, and […]

Amazon Redshift lets you deploy a fast, fully managed, petabyte-scale data warehouse with just a couple of clicks. Once you create your cluster, you can use it to analyze your data using your existing business intelligence tools. Custom applications that use JDBC or ODBC connections will also work, as will those which use standard PostgreSQL […]

Let’s take a quick look at what happened in AWS-land last week: Monday, September 30 We announced that version 2013.09 of the Amazon Linux AMI is now available. The AWS .Net Development Blog published an article to show you how to Handle Credentials with AWS Tools for Windows PowerShell. The AWS Java Development Blog announced […]