Author: Jeff Barr

I truly enjoy the process of putting blog posts together for new AWS services and features. Many features started out as specific requests from one of the hundreds of thousands of AWS users. With “customer obsession” as one of our core values, all of us on the AWS team do everything that we can to […]

Amazon CloudWatch monitors your AWS cloud resources and the applications that you run on AWS. The basic unit of monitoring is a metric. Amazon EC2, Amazon RDS, and other AWS services collect metrics and forward them to CloudWatch, where they are stored for two weeks. The metrics can be graphed, and they can also be […]

The Amazon Elastic MapReduce (EMR) team has been hard at work on a series of updates and new features. You now have access to Hadoop 2.2 and new versions of Hive,Pig, HBase, and Mahout.  Cluster startup time has been reduced, S3DistCp (for data movement), has been augmented, and MapR M7 is now supported. If you […]

If you are part of a startup or if you have the entrepreneurial itch and aren’t sure how to scratch it, we have some AWS re:Invent sessions and events that will be of particular interest to you! Werner VogelsAmazon.com CTO Dr. Werner Vogels will be leading three separate startup events at re:Invent. All three events […]

In the latest episode of The AWS Report, I spoke with Chris Langway of Optaros to learn how they use AWS to meet the demanding and time-critical needs of B2B, B2C, and mobile e-commerce while dealing with multiple brands and channels. Co-host Lee Zen chatted with Product Manager Pavan Pothukuchi to learn more about how […]

Let’s take a quick look at what happened in AWS-land last week: Monday, October 21 The AWS .Net Development Blog talked aobut Using Elastic IP Addresses. The new AWS Application Management Blog talked about Elastic Beanstalk and the DynamoDB Session Manager for Tomcat. We announced that the AWS Console for iOS / Android Now Supports […]

AWS Direct Connect makes it easy for you to establish a dedicated network connection from your premises to AWS. You can do this to reduce your network costs, improve throughput, or to provide a more consistent network experience than is possible with an Internet-based connection. Today we are making AWS Direct Connect even more powerful […]

The AWS Training and Certification program has been expanding in breadth and in depth. We are adding more training and more certifications, all with the goal of helping you to learn more about how to design, build, and run applications on AWS. New AWS Certification Beta ExamsIf you will be attending AWS re:Invent next month, […]