Author: Jeff Barr

Let’s take a quick look at what happened in AWS-land last week: Tuesday,  July 17 We reminded you to get ready to register for AWS re:Invent. The Amazon Simple Email Service now supports Simple DKIM signing. Minutes later, developer Andy Chilton updated his Awssum node.js library to support this important new feature. We released a […]

Update (January 6, 2016) – The Windows scripts described in this blog post have been deprecated and are no longer available. For updated information on how to perform the same tasks in a more modern fashion, please take a look at Sending Performance Counters to CloudWatch and Logs to CloudWatch Logs, Configuring a Windows Instance […]

The Plot So FarAs the applications that you build with AWS grow in scale, scope, and complexity, you haven’t been shy about asking us for more locations, more features, more storage, or more speed. Modern web and mobile applications are often highly I/O dependent. They need to store and retrieve lots of data in order […]

We introduced a set of EC2 instance status checks at the beginning of the year. These status checks are the results of automated tests performed by EC2 on every running instance that detect hardware and software issues.  As described in my original post, there are two types of tests: system status checks and instance status checks. […]

Atulya Beheray of the AWS Messaging Team has written a guest post to introduce a new paper that his team has put together to show you how to use the Simple Queue Service in highly scalable fashion. — Jeff; Amazon SQS has been by used many AWS customers as a building block for building highly […]

Earlier this year I asked you to start thinking about attending and perhaps even speaking at AWS re:Invent, our first global customer and partner conference. The conference will be held from November 27-29 at the Venetian Hotel in Las Vegas. We’ve arranged for three very full days of activity: Tuesday, November 27 Wednesday, November 28 […]

The Amazon Simple Email Service (SES) gives you the power to send bulk and transactional emails, with a focus on ease of use and deliverability. After you sign up for Amazon SES, you simply verify your domain, request production access, send email, and monitor the results. What’s Deliverability? Deliverability refers to the likelihood that an […]

Let’s take a quick look at what happened in AWS-land last week: Monday, July 9th We updated Elastic MapReduce with better support for AMI versioning and an updated version of Hive.. Tuesday, July 10th AWS Elastic Beanstalk is now supported in two additional regions. AWS now supports MFA-protected API access. Wednesday, July 11th You can now run the Database Tuning Advisor […]

The AWS Developer Productivity and tools team is responsible for making the AWS developer experience as positive and productive as possible. The team is responsible for AWS Elastic Beanstalk, AWS CloudFormation, the language-specific SDKs, tools, documentation, and the AWS Management Console. A number of members of the team will be attending OSCON to attend sessions […]

Ok folks, this one is a mouthful, so bear with me! The Amazon Relational Database Service for SQL Server now supports the Microsoft SQL Server Database Engine Tuning Advisor. The Advisor will help you to select and create an optimal set of indexes, indexed views, and partitions even if you don’t have an expert-level understanding of […]