Author: Jeff Barr

Update (2017): DynamoDB now supports auto scaling out of the box! Check out my new blog post or read the new documentation. Amazon DynamoDB is a fully-managed NoSQL database. When you create a DynamoDB table, you provision the desired amount of request capacity, taking in to account the amount of read and write traffic and […]

Shon Shah, Senior Product Manager on the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) team, sent along a guest post announcing new IAM functionality that enables you to enforce multi-factor authentication (MFA) when providing programmatic access across AWS accounts. — Jeff; IAM roles enable you to grant an IAM user in one AWS account access to […]

We have made some important improvements to the EC2 Management Console. Late last year we introduced the Launch Instance Wizard and AWS Marketplace Integration. We also updated the look and feel of key console pages. Today we are updating the remaining pages of the console with a new look and feel and a host of […]

Step by step, the AWS Trusted Advisor keeps getting better and better. As you might already know, the Trusted Advisor inspects your AWS environment and makes recommendations that can save you money, increase system performance and reliability, and improve your security profile. Today we are introducing a new check (number 32 if you are keeping […]

Let’s take a quick look at what happened in AWS-land last week: Tuesday, February 18 We announced Health Check Improvements for Amazon Route 53. Wednesday, February 19 We announced that AWS Elastic Load Balancing Now Supports Perfect Forward Secrecy and Other Security Enhancements. Thursday, February 20 We added new AWS Customer Success Stories from BrightRoll, […]

Amazon RDS makes it easy for you to set up, scale, and run a relational database. Today we are making RDS even better with the introduction of the second generation (M3) of the Standard DB instance family. This new generation supports the db.m3.medium, db.m3.large, db.m3.xlarge, and db.m3.2xlarge instance types. These instances have a similar CPU […]

As we often do, we launched AWS Data Pipeline in a single AWS Region (US East (Northern Virginia) to be precise). It is now available in the following Regions as well: US West (Oregon) EU (Ireland) Asia Pacific (Sydney) Asia Pacific (Tokyo) AWS Data Pipeline has always supported data flows between Regions. With today’s release, […]

Regular readers of this blog already know that Amazon Kinesis is a fully managed service for real-time processing of streaming data at massive scale. As I noted last month when we introduced the Kinesis Storm Spout, Kinesis is but one component of a complete end-to-end streaming data application. In order to build such an application, […]