Author: Jeff Barr

Let’s take a quick look at what happened in AWS-land last week: Monday, April 1 To celebrate April Fool’s Day, we released PC2 – the Punched Card Cloud. Tuesday, April 2 We announced that Amazon Redshift and the the EC2 High Storage Instances are now available in the US West (Oregon) Region. The AWS Ruby […]

The AWS team has been working hard to build powerful and exciting new features for Windows on AWS. In the last month we have released  support for SQL Server AlwaysOn Availability Groups, a beta of the AWS Diagnostics for Microsoft Windows Server, and new drivers for our virtual instances that improve performance and increase the […]

The AWS tagging feature helps you to label and identify your cloud resources. In today’s guest post, Senior Product Manager Derek Lyon reveals the details of a new Tags page in the EC2 console. — Jeff; We are adding a new Tags page in the EC2 Console that will help you browse your EC2 resources […]

Jeff Wierer, Senior Product Manager on the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) team sent along a guest post to introduce a powerful new IAM feature. — Jeff; AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) enables you to create policies that control access to AWS service APIs and resources. Today were extending the AWS access policy […]

You can now launch Amazon Redshift clusters and EC2 High Storage instances in the US West (Oregon) Region. Amazon RedshiftAmazon Redshift is a fully managed data warehouse service that lets you create, run, and manage a petabyte-scale data warehouse with ease. You can easily scale up by adding additional nodes (giving you more storage and […]

Today we have a really interesting guest post from Prashant Pandey (Engineering Manager for DynamoDB) and Pravin Muthukumar (Business Development Manager for Database Services). — Jeff; Real-time bidding (RTB) allows advertisers and publishers to buy and sell online display ad inventory in an efficient, high-speed marketplace. RTB platforms solicit bid requests for each ad impression from […]

At least once per decade (I’ve been at this evangelism thing for a long time), a potential customer will ask me1 if we have ever thought of building a cloud of mainframe computers. They recognize the benefits of cloud computing, but are reluctant to give up their Job Control Language, their decks of punched cards, […]

Let’s take a quick look at what happened in AWS-land last week: Monday, March 25 The EC2 IP address ranges were updated (this happened earlier in the month but I missed it). There are now 3.7 million IP addresses listed. Tuesday, March 26 We announced AWS CloudHSM for Secure Key Storage and Cryptographic Operations. I […]

The AWS team is out in force at the Microsoft Management Summit in Las Vegas. AWS Booth #733Visit our booth to learn more about AWS and ways to build, deploy and monitor your Microsoft Windows Server instances. Product managers and technical program managers will be present to help you learn more about AWS. Stop by […]

Max Spevack runs the team that produces the Amazon Linux AMI. Today he’s here to tell you about the newest version of this popular AMI. — Jeff; Following our usual six month release cycle, the Amazon Linux AMI 2013.03 is now available. As always, our goal with the Amazon Linux AMI is to ensure that […]