Author: Jeff Barr

Let’s face it. Sometimes you just need a local server. Perhaps your office is too cold, or you have the urge to pull the cover off and reseat the memory. Or, you might have some data on floppy disks that you simply cannot live without. Because we will leave no stone unturned in our efforts […]

We have received tremendous positive feedback from customers and partners since we launched Amazon DynamoDB two months ago. Amazon DynamoDB enables customers to offload the administrative burden of operating and scaling a highly available distributed database cluster while only paying for the actual system resources they consume. We also received a ton of great feedback […]

Today, Nihar Bihani of the Amazon CloudFront team is back again, with another guest post. — Jeff; Today, Id like to tell you about two different ways weve improved our live streaming solution. But before I dive into whats changing, I want to start by calling out some things that are staying the same. Our […]

Pavel Safronov, a developer on our SDK and Tools team, sent the following guest post my way! — Jeff; The AWS SDK for .NET provides a simple client for our new service, Amazon DynamoDB. This client gives you a straight-forward way to interface with this Internet-scale NoSQL database service. But what you might not know […]

We’re very pleased to welcome the 1000 Genomes Project data to Amazon S3.  The original human genome project was a huge undertaking. It aimed to identify every letter of our genetic code, 3 billion DNA bases in total, to help guide our understanding of human biology. The project ran for over a decade, cost billions […]

We’ve just released version 2012.03 of the Amazon Linux AMI. Coming six months after our previous major release, this version of the AMI is loaded with new features that EC2 users will enjoy. One of our goals for this release has been to make available multiple major versions of important packages. This allows code that […]

AWS Direct Connect has grown to six locations worldwide since our initial launch in August 2011. Customers are using it to work with large data sets, power applications that use real-time data feeds and build hybrid environments that integrate AWS resources with on-premise infrastructure. We are hard at work on new locations and have several […]

There’s a new coding challenge on CloudSpokes with a top prize of $2000 and other prizes ranging from $1000 to $100. The goal: Create tools to help more people to make use of Amazon EC2 Spot Instances! This is an opportunity to be imaginative and creative, and to show us what you can do. You […]

Weve received great feedback from customers on the recent AWS price reductions. Ive personally received a number of great stories from customers who are using AWS to reduce the cost of running their business. Weve written up two of these recent cost savings stories as AWS case studies. foursquare Labs, Inc. and Global Blue may […]

The Amazon Web Services are now available in an ever-expanding series of locations. You’ve asked us to make it easier to build applications that span multiple AWS regions and we are happy to oblige. Today I’m pleased to announce that Amazon Route 53 is making available the same latency based routing technology that powers Amazon […]