Author: Jeff Barr

AWS Marketplace makes it easy for you to find, buy, and immediately start using software and services in a wide variety of categories including Software Infrastructure, Developer Tools, and Business Software. Today we are enhancing AWS Marketplace with a brand new Education & Research software category. The products in this category are designed to meets […]

Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS for short) lets you create block storage volumes and attach them to EC2 instances. AWS users enjoy the ability to create EBS volumes that range in size from 1 GB up to 1 TB, create snapshot backups, and to create volumes from snapshots with a couple of clicks, with optional […]

Let’s take a quick look at what happened in AWS-land last week: Monday, June 9 We published Episode 90 of the AWS Podcast. Tuesday, June 10 We announced that Version 7 of Red Hat Enterprise Linux is now Available on AWS. We released an AWS Test Drive for RSA Archer Incident Management on AWS GovCloud (US). The […]

Amazon S3 stores trillions of objects and processes more than a million requests per second for them. As the number of use cases for S3 has grown, so have the requests for additional ways to protect data in motion (as it travels to and from S3) and at rest (while it is stored). The first […]

The Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS) is a fast and flexible push messaging service. You can send messages to a wide variety of mobile devices. You can deliver notifications via SMS text messages or email, and to Amazon SQS queues and HTTP endpoints. Today we are enhancing SNS with support for Baidu Cloud Push in […]

Let’s take a quick look at what happened in AWS-land last week. As an experiment, I am starting to include links to a few hand-selected blog posts and articles that are 100% relevant to AWS and that happen to catch my attention. If you would like to submit a link for consideration, please send it […]

The AWS Console mobile app supports Amazon EC2, Elastic Load Balancing, Amazon S3, Amazon Relational Database Service, Route 53 Hosted Zones, Auto Scaling, AWS OpsWorks, CloudWatch, and the Service Health Dashboard. You can use the app to monitor the status and health of your AWS resources on your iOS or Android device: Support for Multiple […]

I have written about the SAP HANA database several times in the past year or two. Earlier this year we announced that it was certified for production deployment on AWS and that you can bring your existing SAP HANA licenses into the AWS cloud. Today we are simplifying and automating the process of getting HANA […]