Author: Jeff Barr

We’ll be holding a technology open house at our new South Lake Union campus on the North end of Seattle. The event is free but space is limited and you will need to pre-register. The welcome and the keynote will be delivered by James Hamilton. James is an Amazon Distinguished Engineer and he’s an awesome […]

Today, I spoke at the Citrix Synergy 2011 Conference in San Francisco where they announced Citrix’s Support for XenApp – On-demand Application Delivery Solution – on Amazon Web Services Cloud. I am particularly excited about this announcement because now you can spin up a Secure XenApp Farm in the cloud within minutes that instantly delivers […]

As you may know from my previous post, Amazon Route 53 is a highly available and highly scalable DNS service. Today we have some big news for users and fans of Route 53: You can use a new alias feature to map the root or apex of your hosted zone to your Elastic Load Balancer. […]

Update (September, 2017) – The IPv6 information in this blog post has grown outdated over time. For current information, take a look at Internet-Facing Classic Load Balancers. We’ve added three new features to EC2’s Elastic Load Balancing feature: IPv6 Support – All Elastic Load Balancers in the US East (Northern Virginia) and EU (Ireland) regions […]

A few months ago I told you that we were planning to support Oracle Database 11g (Release 2) via the Relational Database Service (RDS). That support is now ready to go, and you can start launching Database Instances today. We’ve set this up so that you have lots of choices and plenty of flexibility to […]

We have updated the AWS Security White Paper and we’ve created a new Risk and Compliance White Paper.  Both are available now. The AWS Security White Paper describes our physical and operational security principles and practices. It includes a description of the shared responsibility model, a summary of our control environment, a review of secure […]

You can now store your business and application metrics in Amazon CloudWatch. You can view graphs, set alarms, and initiate automated actions based on these metrics, just as you can for the metrics that CloudWatch already stores for your AWS resources. This new custom metrics feature can be used in two different ways: You can […]

I thought it would be fun to show the new CloudWatch User-Defined metrics in action so I spent a couple of hours cooking up a little example. I launched an EC2 Micro instance, installed PHP, Emacs, the MySQL development package, and the AWS SDK for PHP. The first step is to include the master file […]

The AWS SDK for Android and the AWS SDK for iOS now support even more AWS services: Amazon EC2 Amazon CloudWatch Amazon Simple Email Service Elastic Load Balancing Auto Scaling The SDKs already support Amazon S3, Amazon SimpleDB, Amazon Simple Queue Service, and Amazon SNS. With the added services, you can now add the following […]

We’ve added a second container type to AWS Elastic Beanstalk. Version 7 of Apache Tomcat is now available for use and is the default for all new environments (you can still choose version 6 if you’d like). Tomcat 7 includes functional improvements such as support for the latest versions of a number of standards including […]