Author: Jeff Barr

I’m writing to you from the floor of AWS re:Invent, where a capacity crowd is learning all about the latest and greatest AWS developments. As part of the welcoming keynote, AWS Senior VP Andy Jassy announced that were reducing prices again. This is our 24th price reduction – we continue to innovate on our customers […]

You may have noticed that we announced Amazon Redshift today a data warehouse service that is a lot faster, simpler, and less expensive than alternatives available today. Let’s Talk About Data A data warehouse is a specialized type of relational database, optimized for high-performance analysis and reporting of transactions. It collects current and historical transactional […]

The AWS Trusted Advisor is really cool. It provides you with advice and recommendations that will allow you to spend less money on AWS, and to make better use of a number of AWS features and facilities. I recently spoke to Forest Johns, Product Manager for the AWS Trusted Advisor, to learn more about it: […]

AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) enables you to create and manage IAM users and manage access to your AWS account. Some customers have told us that they prefer leveraging their existing corporate identities to access AWS services and resources via identity federation.  Today, were making it even easier for you to get started with […]

For this episode of The AWS Report, I traveled to San Francisco and spoke with Venugopal Pai, Vice President of Alliances at Riverbed: Pai (as he prefers to be called) talks about Riverbed’s evolution from WAN performance to application performance and now to datacenter performance. A number of Riverbed products including the Stingray Traffic Manager, […]

Let’s take a quick look at what happened in AWS-land last week: Monday, November 19 The most recent episode of The AWS Report features an interview with David Rocamore of Controlgroup. We now support delegating API access to AWS services using IAM roles. We announced that Windows Server 2012 is now available on AWS. Tuesday, […]

We’re working hard to make the AWS Marketplace even more flexible and to make sure that it contains the operating systems, tools, and other resources that you need. Today we are adding support for three new open source operating systems: FreeBSD, CentOS, and Debian. We are also making it easier for you to find software […]

The Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS) and the Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS) are important “glue” components for scalable, cloud-based applications (see the Reference Architectures in the AWS Architecture Center to learn more about how to put them to use in your own applications). One common design pattern is called “fanout.” In this pattern, a […]

We’ve received some great feedback on the EC2 instance status checks that were released earlier this year. Our customers appreciate the fact that we can detect and report on how their EC2 instances are performing. Today we are adding a new status check for EBS Provisioned IOPS volumes. As you know, you can now provision […]

The excitement is building for AWS re:Invent and I am looking forward to my trip to Las Vegas. I’ve got important information for attendees and for online viewers! AWS re:Invent for AttendeesIf you will be heading to Las Vegas for the conference, here’s what you need to know: What to Bring -Be sure to bring […]