Author: Jeff Barr

Today I would like to tell you about a trio of new AWS tools that are designed to help individual developers, teams of developers, and system administrators store, integrate, and deploy their code on the cloud. Here is the lineup, in the order that you’d generally put them to use: AWS CodeDeploy – This service […]

We launched the Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) service way back in 2009 to help you to set up, operate, and scale a MySQL database in the cloud. Since that time, we have added a multitude of options to RDS including extensive console support, three additional database engines ( Oracle, SQL Server, and PostgreSQL), […]

The AWS Partner Network (APN) helps our technology and consulting partners to build businesses around AWS. Members of APN have access to business, technical, marketing, and go-to-market (GTM) resources and support. The Global APN Summit is an important part of AWS re:Invent. I’d like to give you a brief report, fresh from the floor of […]

Would you buy a car without driving it? Would you spend tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars on a license for an enterprise software package without seeing it run in a real environment? I hope that your answer to both of these questions is “no way!” As you might already know, I am a […]

I would like to give you a quick, sneak preview of a new Amazon DynamoDB feature. We will be demonstrating it at AWS re:Invent and making it available to curious developers and partners for testing and feedback. Many AWS customers are using DynamoDB as the primary storage mechanism for their applications. Some of them use […]

Let’s take a quick look at what happened in AWS-land last week: Monday, November 3 I discussed some Sweet Treats for DynamoDB Users. We launched SUSE SLES 12 AMIs for EC2. We announced an Amazon Zocalo Update – MFA, Sharable Links, Web Move, and the Ability to Decline Feedback. We announced that the AWS Storage Gateway […]

AWS Direct Connect makes it easy to establish a dedicated network connection from your premises to AWS. You can establish private connectivity between AWS and your datacenter, office, or colocation environment. This has the potential to reduce your data transfer costs, increase bandwidth throughput, and provide a more consistent network experience than Internet-based connections. Now […]

My colleague Srikanth Deshpande of the Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) team sent along a guest post in order to bring you up to date on the latest and greatest features added to Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL including Read Replications, data migration enhancements, and three new extensions. — Jeff; Read Replicas Amazon RDS for […]