Author: Jeff Barr

We have added a pair of new API functions to Auto Scaling and we have made another pair of existing functions more powerful. New FunctionsDescribeAccountLimits tells you the maximum number of Launch Configurations and Auto Scaling Groups set for your account. If you need more of either one, simply fill out the EC2 Instance Request […]

Let’s take a quick look at what happened in AWS-land last week: Monday, December 16 We announced that VM Import/Export Now Supports Linux. The AWS Mobile Development Blog showed how to Simplify Token Vending Machine Deployment with AWS CloudFormation. Tuesday, December 17 We announced that Amazon Kinesis is now available in Public Beta. We announced […]

I am happy to announce a reduction in the On Demand and Reserved Instance (RI) prices for EC2’s HI1 (First Generation High I/O Performance) instances in select AWS regions, effective December 1, 2013, along with availability in the form of Spot Instances The HI1 instances feature 16 vCPUs (Virtual CPUs), 60.5 GiB of RAM, 2 […]

Late last month I gave you a sneak peak at our newest EC2 instance type, the I2. These instance types are available today, in four sizes across seven AWS regions. The I2 instance type was designed to host I/O intensive workloads typically generated by relational databases, NoSQL databases, and transactional systems. The largest I2 instance […]

AWS Direct Connect makes it easy to establish a dedicated network connection from your premises to AWS. Our customers use Direct Connect to reduce their network costs, increase throughput, and provide a more consistent network experience than Internet-based connections. Connect NowEffective immediately, you can provision a single connection to any Direct Connect location in the […]

My colleague Nihar Bihani sent me a guest post to announce a new and often-requested feature for Amazon CloudFront. — Jeff; CloudFront just added a geo-restriction feature to make it easier to restrict access to your content based on the geographic location of your viewers. In early 2012 we published a tutorial that shows how […]

The AWS Trusted Advisor monitors your AWS resources and provides you with advice for cost optimization, security, performance, and fault tolerance. The 31 checks performed by the Trusted Advisor will help you to monitor and improve your use of Amazon EC2, Elastic Load Balancing, Elastic Block Store, Amazon S3, Auto Scaling, IAM, the Relational Database […]

I am pleased to announce that we are expanding the AWS footprint once again, with a new Region in Beijing, China. AWS customers will soon be able serve local customers in the area using this Region. I made my first trip to China about four years ago. At that time I was impressed by the […]