Author: Jeff Barr

I interviewed Kate Matsudaira, CTO of Decide.com, for The AWS Report. Kate told me how Decide.com uses AWS to implement  a next-generation online (web and mobile) shopping experience using terabytes of data pulled from thousands of sources. Behind the scenes, Decide.com uses a number of AWS services including EC2, S3, and Elastic MapReduce. Because they […]

We launched the Amazon Partner Network (APN) just about a month ago and we’ve been really pleased with the response. The list of Technology Partners and Consulting Partners have been growing nicely. We are planning to recognize our most productive consulting partners at the AWS re:Invent conference this coming November by designating them as Premier […]

Our customers have been making great use of Amazon DynamoDB‘s provisioned throughput model! They are provisioning tables that handle hundreds of thousands of reads or writes per second to millions and even billions of items. They are adjusting provisioned throughput on the fly, in order to cope with changes in requirements, and paying only for […]

Earlier this summer I interviewed Michael Wasser, the founder of Raveld, located near Amazon’s Seattle headquarters. Raveld’s elevator pitch is “clear and concise cloud costs.” I enjoyed speaking with Michael to learn about his product and how it uses AWS: Michael built Raveld after finding that his consulting customers were exceeding their cloud computing budgets […]

If you are like me, you spent this past Sunday afternoon looking forward to the landing of the Curiosity rover on Mars. I was able to wrest the remote control away from my family and change to NASA TV in time to watch through the aptly named “seven minutes of terror” as Curiosity performed an […]

Our recent release of the EBS Provisioned IOPS feature (blog post, explanatory video, EBS home page) has met with a very warm reception. Developers all over the world are already making use of this important and powerful new EC2 feature. I would like to make you aware of some other new resources and blog posts […]

Building mobile applications that are able to run on a variety of device types and operating systems is difficult. Building an enterprise application that connect to a variety of data sources is also tough. Combine the two, and you have a difficult challenge, and one that is very relevant in today’s world — the construction […]

I recently interviewed Sharon Chiarella for The AWS Report. Sharon is an Amazon Vice President with responsibility for the Amazon Mechanical Turk. After we talked about the Mechanical Turk concept in general terms (“a marketplace for work,”) we zoomed in and talked about the kinds of work that is being done and who’s doing it: […]

Let’s take a quick look at what happened in AWS-land last week: Monday, July 30 Our friends at Netflix published the code for their Chaos Monkey, a member of their Simian Army of testing tools. You can now buy EC2 Reserved Instances for Red Hat Enterprise Linux. I posted the newest episode of The AWS Report with […]

The I/O ImperativeAs I noted earlier this month, modern web and mobile applications are highly I/O dependent, storing and retrieving lots of data in order to deliver a rich and personalized experience. In order to give you the I/O performance and the flexibility that you need to build these types of applications, we’ve released several […]