Author: Jeff Barr

Let’s take a quick look at what happened in AWS-land last week: Monday, August 13 We updated AWS Direct Connect with new locations and AWS Management Console support. We published another AWS Report, this one featuring Kate Matsudaira, CTO of Decide.com. Thursday, August 16 We added additional features to Amazon RDS for Oracle Database, including support for running in […]

Its a good day to be a Python developer: AWS Elastic Beanstalk now supports Python applications! If youre not familiar with Elastic Beanstalk, its the easiest way to deploy and manage scalable PHP, Java, .NET, and now Python applications on AWS. You simply upload your application, and Elastic Beanstalk automatically handles all of the details associated […]

We have added three new features to Amazon RDS for Oracle Database to enable you to use it for more of your use cases: You can use Amazon RDS for Oracle in Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) You can use Oracle XML DB to store, retrieve, navigate, and query XML documents.  You can use Oracle […]

Let’s take a quick look at what happened in AWS-land last week: Monday, August 6 AWS Elastic MapReduce now supports Hadoop 1.0.3 including HDFS over HTTP. Wednesday, August 8 We released some EBS Provisioned IOPS resources including a benchmarking guide. Thursday, August 9 We reduced the minimum throughput for DynamoDB tables. Stay tuned for another exciting week! — Jeff;

Did you know that you can use AWS Direct Connect to set up a dedicated 1 Gbps or 10 Gbps network connect from your existing data center or corporate office to AWS? New LocationsToday we are adding two additional Direct Connect locations so that you have even more ways to reduce your network costs and […]

I interviewed Kate Matsudaira, CTO of Decide.com, for The AWS Report. Kate told me how Decide.com uses AWS to implement  a next-generation online (web and mobile) shopping experience using terabytes of data pulled from thousands of sources. Behind the scenes, Decide.com uses a number of AWS services including EC2, S3, and Elastic MapReduce. Because they […]

We launched the Amazon Partner Network (APN) just about a month ago and we’ve been really pleased with the response. The list of Technology Partners and Consulting Partners have been growing nicely. We are planning to recognize our most productive consulting partners at the AWS re:Invent conference this coming November by designating them as Premier […]

Our customers have been making great use of Amazon DynamoDB‘s provisioned throughput model! They are provisioning tables that handle hundreds of thousands of reads or writes per second to millions and even billions of items. They are adjusting provisioned throughput on the fly, in order to cope with changes in requirements, and paying only for […]

Earlier this summer I interviewed Michael Wasser, the founder of Raveld, located near Amazon’s Seattle headquarters. Raveld’s elevator pitch is “clear and concise cloud costs.” I enjoyed speaking with Michael to learn about his product and how it uses AWS: Michael built Raveld after finding that his consulting customers were exceeding their cloud computing budgets […]

If you are like me, you spent this past Sunday afternoon looking forward to the landing of the Curiosity rover on Mars. I was able to wrest the remote control away from my family and change to NASA TV in time to watch through the aptly named “seven minutes of terror” as Curiosity performed an […]