Author: Jeff Barr

EC2’s Reserved Instance model provides you with two benefits: capacity assurance and a lower effective hourly rate in exchange for an upfront payment. After combining customer feedback with an analysis of purchasing patterns that goes back to when we first launched Reserved Instances in 2009, we have decided to simplify the model and are introducing […]

Let’s take a quick look at what happened in AWS-land last week: Monday, November 24 We announced that Amazon Elastic Transcoder Now Supports Media File Encryption. We announced that the Amazon WorkSpaces Bundle and Updated Standard Bundles are now Available in the Asia Pacific (Tokyo) Region. The Infinite Wandering blog published an AWS Lambda Proof of […]

AWS Data Pipeline helps you to reliably process and move data between compute and storage services running either on AWS on on-premises. The pipelines that you create with Data Pipeline’s graphical editor are scalable and fault tolerant, and can be scheduled to run at specific intervals. To learn more, read my launch post, The New […]

Whew! I had an incredible time at AWS re:Invent and I know that many readers of this blog did as well. In between my Sunday night arrival and my Friday afternoon departure I managed to publish seventeen blog posts, record a bunch of cameo videos for the re:Invent Facebook Page (including this to-be classic), sit […]

Let’s take a quick look at what happened in AWS-land last week: Monday, November 17 The AWS Windows and .NET Developer Blog announced AWS Toolkit support for Visual Studio Community 2013. The Trend Micro Blog published a sweet AWS re:Invent Wrap Up. Network Work published a re:Cap of AWS re:Invent: 10 Cool new Amazon Cloud Features. […]

Many of our customers have asked us for a detailed list of the IP address ranges assigned to and used by AWS. While the use cases vary from customer to customer, they generally involve firewalls and other forms of network access controls. In the past we have met this need by posting human-readable information to […]

The AWS Partner Network (APN) is a rapidly growing ecosystem of Consulting and Technology partners. These partners push the boundaries of what can be done with cloud computing by creating and bringing value-added solutions to their customers. Our goal is to continue to support the APN partners as they work to build successful businesses on […]

AppStream can provide our customers with easier access to the tools they need on a wider range of devices than in the past. Ray MilhemVP of Enterprise Solutions at ANSYS When I first wrote about Amazon AppStream last year, I described the AppStream APIs and showed you how to use them to modify an existing […]