Author: Jeff Barr

I recently interviewed Dave Peck, Co-Founder of Seattle-based Cloak. Designed for Macs, iPads, and iPhones, Cloak keeps you safe when you use public Wi-Fi networks in coffee shops, airports, hotels and conferences. It does this by creating an encrypted VPN connection between your device and and an Amazon EC2 instance run and managed by Cloak. […]

You can now purchase EC2 Reserved Instances running Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Reserved Instances lower costs by giving you the option to make a low, one-time payment to reserve compute capacity and receive a significant discount on the hourly charge for that instance. Reserved Instances are complementary to existing Red Hat Enterprise Linux On-Demand Instances […]

Let’s take a quick look at what happened in AWS-land last week: Tuesday, July 24 I blogged about some improvements to the EC2 tab of the AWS Management Console. IDC published a commissioned white paper to show that the business value of AWS accelerates over time. Thursday, July 26 We published four new CloudFormation templates for Windows — SharePoint, […]

I recently interviewed David Geller, President and CEO of Seattle-based Eyejot, for The AWS Report. I really enjoyed speaking with him and the finished video turned out great: David talked about his product and explained how he used AWS to allow him to scale to meet demand. We have a lot more shows in the […]

We released the AWS Marketplace in late April of this year. Since that time, growth has been very strong: the number of sellers has doubled and over 75 products have been added to the catalog. Here are some other fun facts about the Marketplace and ways that our customers are putting it to use: The […]

Update (September 23, 2015): The 2012-era report mentioned in the blog post has been superseded by a newer one published in 2015. The post has been updated accordingly. Analysts Randy Perry and Stephen Hendrick of IDC have just published a commissioned white paper titled The Business Value of Amazon Web Services Accelerates Over Time. You […]

We recently made some improvements to the EC2 tab of the AWS Management Console. It is now easier to access the AWS Marketplace and to configure attached storage (EBS volumes and ephemeral storage) for EC2 instances. Marketplace AccessThis one is really simple, but definitely worth covering. You can now access the AWS Marketplace from the […]

Let’s take a quick look at what happened in AWS-land last week: Tuesday,  July 17 We reminded you to get ready to register for AWS re:Invent. The Amazon Simple Email Service now supports Simple DKIM signing. Minutes later, developer Andy Chilton updated his Awssum node.js library to support this important new feature. We released a […]

Update (January 6, 2016) – The Windows scripts described in this blog post have been deprecated and are no longer available. For updated information on how to perform the same tasks in a more modern fashion, please take a look at Sending Performance Counters to CloudWatch and Logs to CloudWatch Logs, Configuring a Windows Instance […]

The Plot So FarAs the applications that you build with AWS grow in scale, scope, and complexity, you haven’t been shy about asking us for more locations, more features, more storage, or more speed. Modern web and mobile applications are often highly I/O dependent. They need to store and retrieve lots of data in order […]