Author: Jeff Barr

We launched Amazon Simple Workflow (SWF) earlier this year, introducing a service designed to help developers automate the coordination of work in applications for better scalability and performance. Coordination of work in an application becomes particularly onerous for developers to build when the application needs to manage high volume and/or multiple streams of work concurrently […]

I’m happy to announce that we are launching three new blogs, all focused on developers and each one targeted at a particular language or platform. Here’s what we have for you: The new AWS Mobile Blog is for users of the AWS Mobile SDKs for iOS and Android. The new AWS Ruby Blog is for […]

AWS provides you with a number of data storage options. Today I would like to focus on Amazon S3 and Amazon Glacier and a new and powerful way for you to use both of them together. Both of the services offer dependable and highly durable storage for the Internet. Amazon S3 was designed for rapid […]

If you are using Amazon ElastiCache to implement a caching layer in your application, you now have four additional cache node types to choose from, bringing the total up to eleven types. Here are the new types and their specs: cache.t1.micro has 213 MB of RAM for caching, and 1 virtual core. cache.m1.medium has 3.35 […]

Please note: We have updated the Amazon EC2 Spot pricing model as of November, 2017. The new pricing model simplifies purchasing without bidding and with fewer interruptions. Click here to learn more about the updated pricing model. Part of our modus operandi at AWS is to help customers lower the costs of operating their infrastructure. When […]

For this episode of The AWS Report, I interviewed John Smiley, Principal Database Engineer on the Amazon RDS team, to learn more about the new Provisioned IOPS feature for RDS: We discussed use cases and scalability, and the fact that you can add additional IOPS to a running database while it is running if your […]

Let’s take a quick look at what happened in AWS-land last week: Monday, November 5 We released consistent BatchGet and other new features for DynamoDB. We updated Amazon CloudSearch with new features, lower prices, and a free trial. We launched a SharePoint reference implementation on AWS complete with all necessary scripts, documentation, and CloudFormation templates. […]

It is time to expand the AWS footprint once again, with a new Region in Sydney, Australia. AWS customers in Australia can now enjoy fast, low-latency access to the suite of AWS infrastructure services. New RegionThe new Sydney Region supports the following AWS services: A Tranquil Beach – Shoal Bay, Australia Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud […]

In this episode of The AWS Report, I interviewed Ramesh Panuganty of Cognizant to learn more about their Cloud360 product: Cloud360 helps technology and business managers to deploy and manage cloud-based architectures in a flexible and scalable fashion. Learn more about Cloud360… — Jeff;  

We announced the Simple Queue Service (SQS) eight years ago, give or take a day. Although this was our first infrastructure web service, we launched it with little fanfare and gave no hint that this was just the first of many such services on the drawing board. I’m sure that some people looked at it […]