Author: Jeff Barr

As Werner just announced from the stage at AWS re:Invent, we have some great news for users of Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS). We are planning to support EBS volumes that are larger and faster than ever before! Here are the new specs: General Purpose (SSD) – You will be able to create volumes […]

Our customers continue to increase the sophistication and intensity of the compute-bound workloads that they run on the Cloud. Applications such as top-end website hosting, online gaming, simulation, risk analysis, and rendering are voracious consumers of CPU cycles and can almost always benefit from the parallelism offered by today’s multicore processors. The New C4 Instance […]

Many AWS customers have been building applications that use Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) for cost-efficient and highly scalable persistent or temporary object storage. Some of them want to initiate processing on the objects as they arrive; others want to capture information about the objects and log it for tracking or security purposes. These […]

We want to make it even easier for you to build applications that run in the Cloud. We want you to be able to focus on your code, and to work within a cloud-centric environment where scalability, reliability, and runtime efficiency are all high enough to be simply taken for granted! Today we are launching […]

Earlier this year I wrote about container computing and enumerated some of the benefits that you get when you use it as the basis for a distributed application platform: consistency &amp fidelity, development efficiency, and operational efficiency. Because containers are lighter in weight and have less memory and computational overhead than virtual machines, they make […]

Running an IT department in a large organization is not easy. On the one hand, you want to provide your internal users with access to the latest and greatest technology so that they can be as efficient and as productive as possible. On the other hand, you, as the IT professional, need to set and […]

One of the coolest aspects of the Cloud is its dynamic nature. Resources can be created, attached, configured, used, detached, and destroyed in a matter of minutes. Some of these changes are triggered by a direct human action; others have their origins in AWS CloudFormation templates or take place in response to Auto Scaling triggers. […]

Information security is always of paramount importance, whether data is stored on-premises or in the cloud. Since the early days of AWS, we’ve done our best to provide our customers with the information, services, and features that they need to have in order to make informed decisions about what kinds of applications and what kinds […]