Author: Jeff Barr

A New RegionOur new AWS GovCloud (US) Region was designed to meet the unique regulatory requirements of the United States Government. The US federal government, state and local governments, and the contractors who support their mission now have access to secure, flexible, and cost-effective AWS services running in an environment that complies with US Government […]

We have added a number of handy and useful features to the popular AWS Toolkit for Eclipse. The toolkit includes the AWS SDK for Java; you can use it to develop AWS applications for deployment directly on Amazon EC2 or via AWS Elastic Beanstalk. The new features include a new AWS Explorer, support for multiple […]

Over the summer months, we’d like to share a few stories from startups around the world: what are they working on and how they are using the cloud to get things done. Today, we’re profiling the last year’s winner of the AWS Start-up Challenge – M-Dot Network from Erie, PA! (M-Dot team, victorious at the […]

I often see blog posts that start by saying “with the announcement of ____, it is clear that AWS is now targeting the enterprise.” These posts mention recent developments such as Reserved Instances, Dedicated Instances, VM Import, support for Oracle Database 11g, and the improvements to the EC2 networking model. Today we are adding three […]

The new AWS Direct Connect service allows enterprises to create a connection to an AWS Region via a dedicated network circuit. In addition to enhancing privacy, dedicated circuits will generally result in more predictable data transfer performance and will also increase bandwidth between your data center and AWS. Additionally, users of dedicated circuits will frequently […]

 In the past 6 months we have launched several AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) features that have made it easier for our customers to control access to their AWS account. For example, weve launched support for IAM in the AWS Management Console, we’ve enabled users to log in to the AWS Management Console, and […]

Today we are marking the Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) as Generally Available, and we are also releasing a big bundle of new features (see my recent post, A New Approach to Amazon EC2 Networking for more information on the last batch of features including subnets, Internet access, and Network ACLs). You can now build highly […]

Here’s what’s happening in AWS-land for August of 2011: Webinars: August 3 – Game Development in the Cloud: Live Q&A With Featured Customer – 11:00 AM PST August 17 – Leveraging Your Active Directory to Access AWS Services – 9:00 AM PST August 18 – Introduction to Amazon Web Services – 9:00 AM PST August […]

I am pleased to announce that the 2011 AWS Start-Up Challenge is now On! If you are part of promising young start-up and you use (or plan to use) one or more of the Amazon Web Services, please read the Official Rules and consider submitting an entry. Expanded World FootprintBased on the feedback that we’ve […]

Over the summer months, we’d like to share a few stories from startups around the world: what are they working on and how they are using the cloud to get things done. Today, we’re profiling Yottaa from Cambridge, MA! I first met Coach Wei, CEO and founder of Yottaa, last year, as a finalist in […]