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Jeff Barr

Author: Jeff Barr

Jeff Barr is Chief Evangelist for AWS. He started this blog in 2004 and has been writing posts just about non-stop ever since.

Amazon AppStream Now Available to All Developers

We announced Amazon AppStream at last fall’s re:Invent conference, and made the service available to an initial group of developers at that time. Today we are taking the next step forward. I am happy to announce that Amazon AppStream is now being made available to all interested developers. You can build applications that run on […]

Important AWS Account Key Change Coming on April 21, 2014

As of April 21, 2014, you will no longer be able to retrieve the existing secret access key(s) for your AWS (root) account. If you have become dependent on this feature, you should download your key from the legacy security credentials page now and then save it in a safe and secure location. Better yet, […]

AWS Week in Review – March 3, 2014

Let’s take a quick look at what happened in AWS-land last week: Monday, March 3 We announced an Update to the AWS Activate Program. We announced that AWS CloudFormation now supports AWS OpsWorks. The AWS Ruby Development Blog announced that Ruby 2.1 is Now Available on AWS OpsWorks. Tuesday, March 4 We announced that Red […]

SAP HANA – Production Ready on AWS With up to 244 GiB of RAM

A fully-supported version of the SAP HANA environment is now available on the AWS cloud. SAP has certified this version for production workloads in a single-node setup and you can count on it for all of your HANA-backed SAP Business Warehouse (BW) and OLAP scenarios. I first wrote about the SAP HANA database and the […]

Access Logs for Elastic Load Balancers

Update (July 20, 2017) – Fixed the Hive commands and removed a reference to a tutorial that no longer exists. AWS Elastic Load Balancing helps you to build systems that are highly scalable and highly reliable. You can automatically distribute traffic across a dynamically-sized collection of Amazon EC2 instances, and you have the ability to […]

Cross-Region Export and Import of DynamoDB Tables

Two of the most frequent feature requests for Amazon DynamoDB involve backup/restore and cross-Region data transfer. Today we are addressing both of these requests with the introduction of a pair of scalable tools (export and import) that you can use to move data between a DynamoDB table and an Amazon S3 bucket. The export and […]

VM Import/Export Now Supports Windows 2012

The VM Import/Export feature gives you the power to import existing virtual machine images to Amazon EC2 instances and to export them back to your on-premises environment. You can move images to hasten and simplify your migration from on-premises to the AWS cloud or as part of a disaster recovery model. Import & Export Windows […]