Author: Jeff Barr

Today we have an awesome guest post from a General Manager on the Amazon EC2 team. Enjoy! — Jeff; Before talking about Windows Server 2012, let me first introduce myself. My name is Tom Rizzo and Im the General Manager for the Windows team in AWS. I previously worked at Microsoft in a variety of […]

Today I’m happy to bring you a guest post from Anders Samuelsson, Senior Product Manager on the AWS Identity and Access Management team. — Jeff; Suppose you run a research lab and you dump a terabyte or so of data into Amazon DynamoDB for easy processing and analysis. Your colleagues at other labs and in […]

For this episode of The AWS Report, I interviewed David Rocamora, VP of DevOps for Controlgroup. We talked about the origins of cloud computing at Controlgroup, and the way that it has allowed them to make radical, transformative changes in the way that they design, develop, and deliver applications to their clients. We discussed a […]

Let’s take a quick look at what happened in AWS-land last week: Monday, November 12 We launched a new AWS Region in Sydney, Australia. Tuesday, November 13 I published a new episode of The AWS Report, featuring John Smiley of the Amazon RDS team. We announced four new cache node types for Amazon ElastiCache. We […]

The AWS Marketplace has been growing by leaps and bounds. The number of listings has been growing steadily and we’re really happy with the number of launches that are taking place. Today we are adding a new category to the Marketplace. We want to make it easier for you to store and analyze large amounts […]

Now that the 2012 US Presidential Election is over, I’d like to take you behind the scenes and tell you a bit about the technology that powered President Obama’s successful reelection campaign! To set the stage, imagine setting up the technology infrastructure needed to power a dynamic, billion-dollar organization under strict time limits using volunteer […]

Amazon Glacier is designed for storing data that is infrequently accessed. Once you have stored your data, you can retrieve up to 5% of it (prorated daily) each month at no charge. Today we are making it easier for you to remain within the 5% retrieval band by introducing Range Retrievals. You can use this […]

For this episode of The AWS Report, I interviewed Adam Gray, Senior Product Manager on the Amazon EC2 team, to learn more about Elastic MapReduce, Hive, and Pig: As you can see from the video, Seattle’s famous Space Needle was hidden in clouds during our shoot. — Jeff;

We launched Amazon Simple Workflow (SWF) earlier this year, introducing a service designed to help developers automate the coordination of work in applications for better scalability and performance. Coordination of work in an application becomes particularly onerous for developers to build when the application needs to manage high volume and/or multiple streams of work concurrently […]

I’m happy to announce that we are launching three new blogs, all focused on developers and each one targeted at a particular language or platform. Here’s what we have for you: The new AWS Mobile Blog is for users of the AWS Mobile SDKs for iOS and Android. The new AWS Ruby Blog is for […]