Author: Jeff Barr

Let’s take a quick look at what happened in AWS-land last week: Monday, October 6 We introduced New APN Competencies for Storage and Life Sciences. The AWS DevOps Blog showed you how to Get Started With CloudWatch Logs. The Cloudlytics Blog showed you how to Decode ELB Log Entries. Tuesday, October 7 We introduced Wildcard Cookies and […]

Are you familiar with the Internet of Things? Before too long, many of the devices in your life will be connected to the Internet and to the cloud on a full or part-time basis. They will generate a constant stream of position, condition, and sensor data and send it to the AWS Cloud for storage […]

Big changes in the technology world seem to come about in two ways. Sometimes there’s a big splashy announcement and a visible public leap in to the future. Most of the time, however, change is a bit more subtle. Early adopters find a new technology that makes them more productive and share it amongst themselves. […]

In June of this year I introduced you to the new SSD-backed Elastic Block Storage option for EC2. Just a few months after release, this new option (formally known as General Purpose (SSD)) is already being used for about 90% of the newly created EBS volumes. Our customers have told us that they love the […]

Amazon DynamoDB Amazon DynamoDB is a fast and flexible NoSQL database service for all applications that need consistent, single-digit millisecond latency at any scale. Our customers love the fact that they can get started quickly and simply (and often at no charge, within the AWS Free Tier) and then seamlessly scale to store any amount […]

When I talk to enterprises and mid-sized companies about their plans to gain agility and cost-effectiveness by their workloads and applications to the Cloud, they are eager to move forward and often want to seek the assistance of solution providers with AWS expertise. We created the AWS Partner Network (APN) a couple of years ago […]

Let’s take a quick look at what happened in AWS-land last week: Monday, September 29 We published a New Quick Start – Windows PowerShell Desired State Configuration (DSC) on AWS. We announced that Cloudformation Support for ELB, CloudFront, OpsWorks, and SNS has been updated. We announced that Version 2 of the AWS Mobile SDK is now […]

My colleague Derek Lyon sent along a great guest post to introduce some important enhancements to the AWS Management Portal for vCenter. — Jeff; We have recently added a number of new features to the AWS Management Portal for vCenter. These enhancements make it significantly easier for VMware professionals to setup the portal and start […]