Author: Jeff Barr

We are launching a preview of a new, resource-style API model for the AWS SDK for Ruby. I will summarize the preview here, and refer you to the post AWS SDK for Ruby 2 Preview Release on the AWS Ruby Development Blog for full information! If youve used Version 1 of the AWS SDK for […]

We have updated the AWS Console mobile app with support for Amazon DynamoDB. You can now browse your tables in summary and detail form, modify provisioned throughput, and examine CloudWatch metrics and alarms for them. Take a Look Let’s take a tour of the new features of the Console mobile app! I created a couple […]

I love the community that has formed around AWS! Many of our customers have decided, with no help or encouragement from us, to actively and independently promote our services, solutions, blog posts, success stories, and best practices to their peers online. They do this by blogging, tweeting, creating videos, writing and sharing sample code, authoring […]

The Amazon Linux AMI is a supported and maintained Linux image for use on Amazon EC2. We release new versions of the Amazon Linux AMI every six months after a public testing phase that includes one or more Release Candidates. The Release Candidates are announced in the EC2 forum and are available to all EC2 […]

Let’s take a quick look at what happened in AWS-land last week: Monday, September 15 We announced that ElastiCache Calls are now Available in AWS CloudTrail. The AWS PHP Developer Blog offered some tips on Keeping up With the Latest Release. Tuesday, September 16 The Cloud Health Technologies blog revealed 6 Things You May Not Know About […]

Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) is a fast, flexible, managed push service that makes it simple and cost-effective to push notifications to Apple, Google, Fire OS, and Windows devices, as well as Android devices in China with Baidu Cloud Push. With yesterday’s launch of iOS 8, Apple has introduced new features that enable some […]

As I promised earlier this year, the AWS Pop-up Loft is reopening on Wednesday, October 1st in San Francisco with a full calendar of events designed to help developers, architects, and entrepreneurs learn about and make use of AWS. Come to the AWS Loft and meet 1:1 with an AWS technical expert, learn about AWS […]

Many AWS developers are using Amazon EMR (a managed Hadoop service) to quickly and cost-effectively build applications that process vast amounts of data. The EMR File System (EMRFS) allows AWS customers to use Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) as a durable and cost-effective data store that is independent of the memory and compute resources […]