Author: Jeff Barr

We’re going to be running a free webinar on December 8th at 9 AM PST. Designed for business and technical decision makers with an interest in migrating Windows Server and Windows Server applications to the AWS cloud, the webinar will address the following topics: Support for the Microsoft .NET platform. Ways for you to take […]

We have been hard at work on a set of features to help you (and the AWS management tools that you use) have better visibility into the status of your AWS resources. We will be releasing this functionality in stages, starting today. Today’s release gives you visibility into scheduled operational activities that might affect your […]

  The AWS Management Console now includes complete support for Amazon Route 53. You can now create your hosted zones and set up the appropriate records (A, CNAME, MX, and so forth) in a convenient visual environment. Let’s walk through the entire process of registering a domain at a registrar and setting it up in […]

  You no longer need to build your own compute cluster in order to tackle your High Performance Computing (HPC) projects. By launching cloud-based compute instances on an as-needed basis, you can avoid waiting in lengthy queues for limited access to shared resources. We’ve pushed the bounds of cloud-based HPC in the past with the […]

We have just opened up another AWS Region! This one is located in the Pacific Northwest area of the United States, in the beautiful state of Oregon, and offers low-cost, low-latency access to our services from the Western portion of the US. Were always trying to provide you with services at the lowest possible price. […]

Here’s what we have in store for November: Webinars: November 1 – Provide details of CloudFormation – 5:00 PM November 9 – Provide details of Virtual Private Cloud – 5:00 PM November 16 – Provide details of Relational Database Services – 5:00 PM November 17 – Amazon Simple Email Service Management Console – 10:00 AM […]

Heres a quick quiz: What does a social gaming site for young women have in common with a cancer research app?  Not sure? Then how about this:  What does a mobile video app have in common with a car sharing service? Still at a loss? Fear not – we have uncovered the answer after weeks […]

Today we are adding another transport protocol to the Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS). You can now subscribe a US phone number to an SNS topic. After the subscription has been confirmed, notifications sent to the topic will be delivered to the phone as an SMS message. SMS (also known as Short Message Service) is […]

As you might already know, you can enable AWS Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA for short) for your AWS account and your Identity and Access Management (IAM) users to provide an additional level of security. Once you have enabled MFA for an account or IAM user, you need to enter an authentication code in addition to your […]

Disaster recovery (DR) is one of most important use cases that we hear from our customers. Having your own DR site in the cloud ready and on standby, without having to pay for the hardware, power, bandwidth, cooling, space and system administration and  quickly launch resources in cloud, when you really need it (when disaster […]