Author: Jeff Barr

As you might know from reading my earlier posts (Amazon AppStream – Deliver Streaming Applications from the Cloud and Amazon AppStream – Now Available to All Developers), Amazon AppStream gives you the power to build complex applications that run from simple devices, unconstrained by the compute power, storage, or graphical rendering capabilities of the device. […]

Let’s take a quick look at what happened in AWS-land last week: Monday, September 8 We announced that you can now Use AWS OpsWorks & Ruby to Build and Scale Simple Workflow Applications. The new Hello OpsWorks Tutorial will help you to get started. Tuesday, September 9 We announced that you can now Kick-Start Your Cloud Storage […]

Are you interested in a job that lets you combine your technical skills with your marketing savvy and your desire to communicate? If so, the Product Marketing Manager position may be a great fit for you. You’ll get to work directly with the teams behind the full range of AWS services, working with them to […]

My colleague Rahul Patil wrote a guest post to show you how to build an application that loads streaming data from Kinesis into an Elasticsearch cluster in real-time. — Jeff; The Amazon Kinesis team is excited to release the Kinesis connector to Elasticsearch! Using the connector, developers can easily write an application that loads streaming […]

As you may already know, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2)‘s new T2 instance type provides a solid level of baseline performance and the ability to burst above the baseline as needed. As I wrote in my blog post, these instances are ideal for development, testing, and medium-traffic web sites. Today we are bringing the […]

Many AWS customers begin their journey to the cloud by implementing a backup and recovery discipline. Because the cloud can provide any desired amount of durable storage that is both secured and cost-effective, organizations of all shapes and sizes are using it to support robust backup and recovery models that eliminate the need for on-premises […]

From time to time, one of my blog posts will describe a way to make use of two AWS products or services together. Today I am going to go one better and show you how to bring the following trio of items in to play simultaneously: Amazon Simple Workflow (SWF) can help you to build, […]

Let’s take a quick look at what happened in AWS-land last week: Monday, September 1 We celebrated Labor Day in the US, and launched nothing! Tuesday, September 2 We announced that you can now Query Your EC2 Instances Using Tag and Attribute Filtering. Wednesday,September 3 We announced that Version 13 of Hive is now Available for Elastic MapReduce. […]