Author: Jeff Barr

Amazon CloudFront distributes dynamic and static web content produced by an origin server to viewers located anywhere in the world. If the user requests objects that don’t exist (i.e., a 404 Not Found response) or an unauthorized user might attempt to download an object (i.e., a 403 Forbidden response), CloudFront used to display a brief […]

One of the most powerful features of AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) is its ability to issue temporary security credentials and grant controlled access to people in a network without having to define individual identities for each user (i.e., identity federation). This enables customers to extend their existing authentication systems and allow users to Single […]

In the latest episode of The AWS Report, I spoke with my colleague Tracy Laxdal to learn more about what she and her team are planning for this year’s AWS re:Invent conference in Las Vegas. We talked about what it was like to walk in to the keynote in the presence of 6,000 AWS users […]

Let’s take a quick look at what happened in AWS-land last week: Monday, September 16 The AWS Java Development Blog posted a Code Snippet to Create a DynamoDB Table. The AWS Security Blog talked about Using Roles to Distribute Non-AWS Credentials to EC2 Instances. Tuesday, September 17 We announced some Updates to the AWS Mobile […]

Would you like to spend an entire day learning more about a particular aspect of AWS? Do you want to start from scratch with an introductory course, do you want to polish your skills with an advanced class in scalability, operations, or game development, or are you looking for something in-between? As part of AWS […]

Amazon CloudFront makes it easy for you to get your dynamic and static content out to a global audience. You simply host your static content in Amazon S3 or your dynamic content on Amazon EC2, create a CloudFront distribution, and use the domain name for the distribution in the URL path for your content. You […]

My colleagues in AWS Marketing have some big plans for Oracle OpenWorld in San Francisco. Opening on September 22nd, this conference is so big and so busy that it actually spills over into the streets of the city. Enterprise database users from all over the world converge on this event and we’re thrilled to be […]

AWS CloudFormation lets you create and manage a collection of AWS resources (EC2 instances, Elastic IP addresses, RDS DB Instances, and much more), provisioning and updating them in an orderly and predictable fashion. CloudFormation lets you describe stacks of related resources using a template. The template can include runtime parameters, allowing you to customize each […]

Let’s take a quick look at what happened in AWS-land last week: Monday, September 9 We announced that you can now Run SUSE Linux Enterprise Server on the AWS Free Usage Tier. Tuesday, September 10 I published an AWS Report interview with James Hirmas of JHC Technology. The AWS PHP Development Blog talked about Streaming […]

Would you like to be able to write and test code that uses the Amazon DynamoDB API even if you have no network connection and without incurring any usage charges (AWS Free Usage Tier notwithstanding)? If so, you are going to love our new DynamoDB Local test tool. DynamoDB Local is a client-side database that […]