Author: Jeff Barr

Continuing along in our quest to give you the tools that you need to build ridiculously powerful web sites and applications in no time flat at the lowest possible cost, I’d like to introduce you to Amazon CloudSearch. If you have ever searched Amazon.com, you’ve already used the technology that underlies CloudSearch. You can now […]

AWS documentation is now available on the Kindle – if this is all you need to know, start here and you’ll have access to the new documents in seconds. I “purchased” (the actual cost is $0.00) the EC2 Getting Started Guide and had it delivered to my trusty Kindle DX, where it looked great: You […]

Recently our CTO Werner Vogels had a great conversation with Troy Otillio from Intuit and Jack Murgia from Edmodo. These innovators are using Amazon RDS to free up  their time to focus on whats important to them building value for their customers.  Here are some of my favorite bits: Troy: Moving to AWS has enabled […]

Our friends at CloudSpokes ran a challenge with the goal of creating some awesome demos for Amazon DynamoDB. The challenge is now complete and they have taken the time to write a guest post to share the results with the AWS community. — Jeff; Last November CloudSpokes was invited to participate in the DynamoDB private […]

Today we have a blog post from Chris Whitaker of the AWS CloudFormation team. Chris brings word of an important new CloudFormation feature, the ability to evolve a running stack by incrementally adding or removing resource definitions from the template. — Jeff; AWS CloudFormation makes it easier for you to create, update, and manage your […]

Amazon ElastiCache makes it easy for you to deploy, scale, and run a cloud-based in-memory cache that is protocol-compliant with Memcached. ElastiCache improves the performance of web applications and reduces the load on your databases by retrieving data from a fast, managed, Memcached-compatible, in-memory caching system, instead of relying entirely on disk-based storage. It can […]

Gday!  Im Joseph Ziegler and Im excited to tell everybody I am the new Technology Evangelist for Australia and New Zealand! I grew up in Texas but most of my professional career was based in Silicon Valley and then later in Asia.  I helped to create some of the first e-commerce applications way back in […]

At the end of the first quarter of 2012, there were 905 billion objects in Amazon S3. We routinely handle 650,000 requests per second for those objects with occasional peaks substantially above that number. Here is the latest chart: The S3 object count continued to grow at a rapid clip even after we added object […]

Todays guest blogger is Dave Lang, Product Manager of the DynamoDB team, who has a great list of tools and SDKs that will allow you to use DynamoDB from just about any language or environment. — Jeff; Since its launch in January, DynamoDB has seen great adoption among our customers; many of them are using […]

I am pleased as punch (whatever that means) to share the first episode of The AWS Report with you! In the inaugural episode, I interview Rob Frederick, Co-founder and CEO of Seattle-based Gripwire: Future episodes will feature interviews with members of the teams that bring you AWS, as well as more interviews with startups and […]