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Jeff Barr

Author: Jeff Barr

Jeff Barr is Chief Evangelist for AWS. He started this blog in 2004 and has been writing posts just about non-stop ever since.

AWS Week in Review – October 7, 2013

Let’s take a quick look at what happened in AWS-land last week: Monday, October 7 We introduced the Alfresco Test Drive Labs with complimentary access to five apps for education and demo purposes. We introduced a bunch of new Japanese-language case studies including Consumer First, DIP. Intage, Misawa, Roland, Smaregi, UEC Tokyo, Tokyu Hands, and […]

AWS Activate – Get Your Startup Off the Ground with AWS

The AWS cloud is a very nice home for startups. You can start small (perhaps with nothing more than a static web page hosted on Amazon S3) and then grow to world-scale as your business develops and grows. You can even participate in the annual AWS Startup Challenge! In order to make it even easier […]

Amazon Glacier Now in the Asia Pacific (Sydney) Region

Amazon Glacier is a storage service designed for backup and archiving. Glacier provides secure, durable storage at an extremely low cost. Introduced a little over a year ago, Glacier has been growing quickly. Our customers are using Glacier for digital preservation, online backup of historical assets, archiving of cold media data, storage of operational data […]

Amazon EC2 High Storage (HS1) Instances Now Available in Sydney and Singapore

The EC2 instances on the Amazon EC2 Instance Types menu are designed to run a wide variety of workloads. You can now launch hs1.8xlarge instances in the Asia Pacific (Sydney) and Asia Pacific (Singapore) Regions using the On-Demand or Reserved Instance pricing models. You can now run your Amazon Redshift clusters, storage-intensive Hadoop jobs, and […]

Amazon Redshift Expands into Asia Pacific, Adds Features

Amazon Redshift lets you deploy a fast, fully managed, petabyte-scale data warehouse with just a couple of clicks. Once you create your cluster, you can use it to analyze your data using your existing business intelligence tools. Custom applications that use JDBC or ODBC connections will also work, as will those which use standard PostgreSQL […]

AWS Week in Review – September 30, 2013

Let’s take a quick look at what happened in AWS-land last week: Monday, September 30 We announced that version 2013.09 of the Amazon Linux AMI is now available. The AWS .Net Development Blog published an article to show you how to Handle Credentials with AWS Tools for Windows PowerShell. The AWS Java Development Blog announced […]

Using Amazon CloudFront for Video Streaming

March 2018 — For updated information on this topic, please visit this blog post. Many AWS customers use Amazon CloudFront to stream videos to various devices. As you may know, video streaming can be implemented using a wide variety of protocols that are layered on top of HTTP. As is the case with just about […]