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Jeff Barr

Author: Jeff Barr

Jeff Barr is Chief Evangelist for AWS. He started this blog in 2004 and has been writing posts just about non-stop ever since.

Delivery Notifications for Simple Email Service

Amazon Simple Email Service (SES) is a simple, scalable, and cost-effective way to send transactional email, marketing messages, and other types of high-quality content. You can connect your application to Amazon SES using the SES SMTP Interface or a full set of APIs. Either way, you will be able to send your messages with high […]

AWS Week in Review – June 16, 2014

Let’s take a quick look at what happened in AWS-land last week: Monday, June 16 Julien Vaéry published a very nice AWS Deployment Guide for VPC and Elastic Beanstalk. A helpful blog post by Brian Lowry showed you how to Setup multiple SSL certificates on an Amazon EC2 instance using a VPC. The AWS Application Management […]

Process Captions with Amazon Elastic Transcoder

Today we are adding captioning support to Amazon Elastic Transcoder. You can now add, remove, or preserve captions as you transcode videos from one format to another, at no additional charge. Captions provide a transcript of the audio portion of the content, making it accessible to more people. With the passing of the Americans with […]

New Education & Research Category in AWS Marketplace

AWS Marketplace makes it easy for you to find, buy, and immediately start using software and services in a wide variety of categories including Software Infrastructure, Developer Tools, and Business Software. Today we are enhancing AWS Marketplace with a brand new Education & Research software category. The products in this category are designed to meets […]

New SSD-Backed Elastic Block Storage

Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS for short) lets you create block storage volumes and attach them to EC2 instances. AWS users enjoy the ability to create EBS volumes that range in size from 1 GB up to 1 TB, create snapshot backups, and to create volumes from snapshots with a couple of clicks, with optional […]

AWS Week in Review – June 9, 2014

Let’s take a quick look at what happened in AWS-land last week: Monday, June 9 We published Episode 90 of the AWS Podcast. Tuesday, June 10 We announced that Version 7 of Red Hat Enterprise Linux is now Available on AWS. We released an AWS Test Drive for RSA Archer Incident Management on AWS GovCloud (US). The […]