Author: Jeff Barr

We’re very pleased to welcome the 1000 Genomes Project data to Amazon S3.  The original human genome project was a huge undertaking. It aimed to identify every letter of our genetic code, 3 billion DNA bases in total, to help guide our understanding of human biology. The project ran for over a decade, cost billions […]

We’ve just released version 2012.03 of the Amazon Linux AMI. Coming six months after our previous major release, this version of the AMI is loaded with new features that EC2 users will enjoy. One of our goals for this release has been to make available multiple major versions of important packages. This allows code that […]

AWS Direct Connect has grown to six locations worldwide since our initial launch in August 2011. Customers are using it to work with large data sets, power applications that use real-time data feeds and build hybrid environments that integrate AWS resources with on-premise infrastructure. We are hard at work on new locations and have several […]

There’s a new coding challenge on CloudSpokes with a top prize of $2000 and other prizes ranging from $1000 to $100. The goal: Create tools to help more people to make use of Amazon EC2 Spot Instances! This is an opportunity to be imaginative and creative, and to show us what you can do. You […]

Weve received great feedback from customers on the recent AWS price reductions. Ive personally received a number of great stories from customers who are using AWS to reduce the cost of running their business. Weve written up two of these recent cost savings stories as AWS case studies. foursquare Labs, Inc. and Global Blue may […]

The Amazon Web Services are now available in an ever-expanding series of locations. You’ve asked us to make it easier to build applications that span multiple AWS regions and we are happy to oblige. Today I’m pleased to announce that Amazon Route 53 is making available the same latency based routing technology that powers Amazon […]

A few days ago we launched a simple, yet very important new feature on our AWS website: the self-service AWS AMI catalog. As you know, AMIs are disk images that contain a pre-configured operating system and virtual application software, and they serve as the required base to launch an EC2 instance. Before this change in […]

I’m pleased to be able to tell you that AWS Elastic Beanstalk now supports PHP and Git deployment. Elastic Beanstalk and PHPAWS Elastic Beanstalk makes it easy for you to quickly deploy and manage applications in the AWS cloud. You simply upload your application, and Elastic Beanstalk automatically handles all of the details associated with […]

We held our first-ever AWS Summit in New York in early 2011 (I snapped the picture at right before the audience filed in for the keynote). Due to the great response we received the first time, we’re doing it again, this time bigger, louder, and with even more content. After registering, you’ll be able to […]

The automated backup feature allows our customers to back up and restore their Relational Database Service (RDS) DB Instances. You can simply choose a non-zero backup retention period from the AWS Management Console: After fielding a number of customer requests, we have increased the maximum retention period from 8 days to 35 days. A number […]