Author: Jeff Barr

AWS Trusted Advisor inspects your AWS environment and looks for opportunities to save money, increase performance & reliability, and to help close security gaps. Today we are enhancing Trusted Advisor with the addition of Action Links. You can now click on an item in a Trusted Advisor alert to navigate to the appropriate part of […]

Enterprise-scale AWS customers often ask me for advice on how to connect their existing on-premises compute and storage infrastructure to the AWS cloud.  They are not interested in all-or-nothing solutions that render their existing IT model obsolete. Instead, they want to enhance the model by taking advantage of the security, scale, performance, and cost-effectiveness of […]

In November of 2014 we made a long-term commitment to our goal of using 100% renewable energy to power the global AWS footprint. Today, the US West (Oregon), Europe (Frankfurt), and AWS GovCloud (US) AWS regions are Carbon-neutral. Now it is time to take another step toward our goal. We have signed a Power Purchase […]

We launched the AWS Systems Manager for Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM) last fall. This add-in allows you to monitor and manage your on-premises VMs (Virtual Machines), as well as your Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances (running either Windows or Linux) from within Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager. As a […]

Earlier today, after a hard-fought battle with pancreatic cancer that lasted nearly two years, my friend and colleague Mike Culver passed away leaving his wife and adult children behind. Mike was well known within the AWS community. He joined my team in the spring of 2006 and went to work right away. Using his business […]

We’ve made some important updates to Amazon Cognito! As you may already know, this service makes it easy for you to save user data such as app preferences or game state in the AWS cloud without writing any backend code or managing any infrastructure. Here’s what’s new: Developer-oriented access to the sync store. Updated AWS […]

My colleague Janna Pellegrino sent me a guest post to introduce some new materials to help you to prepare for the AWS Certified Solutions Architect exam! — Jeff; Are you planning to take the AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate exam?  We now have a new half-day workshop to help you prepare.  Designed to complement […]

Would you like to run Exchange Server 2013 on AWS? If so, I’ve got some good news for you! Our newest Quick Start Reference Deployment will show you how to do just that. Formally titled Microsoft Exchange Server 2013 on the AWS Cloud, this 34 page document addresses all of the architectural considerations needed to […]