Author: Jeff Barr

With the paint barely dry on our US West (Oregon) Region, we are now ready to expand again. This time we are going South of the Equator, to Sao Paulo, Brazil. With the opening of this new Region, AWS customers in South and Central America can now enjoy fast, low-latency access to the suite of […]

We have added an SMTP interface to the Amazon Simple Email Service (SES) to make it even easier for you to send transactional or bulk email. We’ve had a lot of requests for this feature and I am confident that it will be really popular. There’s a new SMTP item in the SES tab of […]

Amazon S3‘s new Multi-Object Delete gives you the ability to delete up to 1000 objects from an S3 bucket with a single request. If you are planning to delete large numbers of objects from S3 then you can quickly do so by using Multi-Object Delete. You can also delete object versions (in buckets where S3 […]

Here is what we have on the calendar for December, 2011: Webinars: December 8 – Getting Started with Windows on AWS – 9:00 AM EST December 14 – How Enterprises are Using the AWS Cloud Today – 10:00 AM December 15 – AWS Meister Series #12, Provide details of SQS, SNS & SimpleDB – 5:00 […]

We have added three more Amazon CloudFront / Route 53 edge locations, bringing the total number of global locations to 24. The new locations are in New York, Indiana, and San Jose, California. The AWS Global Infrastructure map includes a complete list. I sat down with some members of the CloudFront team to learn more […]

I’ve got lots of Amazon ElastiCache news for you today! We’ve enabled ElastiCache in four additional AWS Regions and we have also added AWS CloudFormation support. New RegionsWe launched ElastiCache back in August (read my blog post to learn more), in the US East (Northern Virginia) Region. As I have mentioned in the past, we […]

Cloud Computing has shifted the focus more than ever to architecture of an application. In order to get the maximum benefit of on-demand infrastructure, it is important to invest time in your architectures. A diagram is worth a thousand words. An architecture diagram is probably worth a million to architects and developers. Its is one […]

  If you have watched the cavalcade of AWS releases over the last couple of years, you may have noticed an interesting pattern. We generally release a new service or a major new feature with a model or an architecture that leaves a lot of room to add more features later. We like to start […]

Amazon CloudFront has been a big hit. We’re adding customers, locations, and features at a rapid clip. Let’s take a look at what’s been going on. Lots of CustomersWe now have over 20,000 active* CloudFront customers; this is double the number of customers we had at this time last year. Based on a quick search […]

The popular AWS Elastic Load Balancing Feature is now available within the Virtual Private Cloud (VPC). Features such as SSL termination, health checks, sticky sessions and CloudWatch monitoring can be configured from the AWS Management Console, the command line, or through the Elastic Load Balancing APIs. When you provision an Elastic Load Balancer for your […]