Author: Jeff Barr

I’m happy to announce that we are reducing the prices for Amazon EC2 Dedicated Instances. Launched in 2011, Dedicated Instances run on hardware dedicated to a single customer account. They are ideal for workloads where corporate policies or industry regulations dictate physical isolation from instances run by other customers at the host hardware level. Like […]

We added a big batch of features to the Amazon Elastic Transcoder just a couple of months ago. Let’ s do it again! Today we are adding three new features that will give you additional control of the appearance, bit rate, and frame rate of the videos that you transcode. As you can see from […]

With AWS being put to use in an ever-widening set of use cases across organizations of all shapes and sizes, the need for additional control over the permissions granted to users and to applications has come through loud and clear.  This need for control becomes especially pronounced at the enterprise level. You don’t want the […]

You can now use tags to organize your Amazon RDS resources. Also, as I have noted in my companion blog post, you can reference these tags in IAM policies in order to manage access to RDS resources and to control the actions that can be applied to the resources. You can even use the tags […]

I have another triple dose of videos for you today. Continuing with our AWS Jobs video series, I interviewed an Amazon Recruiter, a Product Manager, and a TPM (Technical Program Manager). You can learn more about all of these jobs (and many others) on the AWS Careers page. We have open positions in North and […]

Let’s take a quick look at what happened in AWS-land last week: Monday, July 1 We launched the new Transaction Library for DynamoDB. We announced that Amazon RDS now supports version 5.6 of MySQL. The AWS PHP  Blog talks about the new AWS Service Provider for Laraval. Tuesday, July 2 We published a pair of […]

Continuing with our theme of publishing white papers to show you how to run popular relational and NoSQL databases on AWS, I am pleased to tell you that our new Riak on AWS white paper is now available. Authored by AWS Solutions Architect Brian Holcomb (a one-time member of the Obama for America campaign), this […]

You have a plethora of options when you want to run a relational or NoSQL databases on AWS. On the relational side, you can use the Relational Database Service (RDS) to run a MySQL, Oracle, or SQL Server database. RDS will take care of the scaling, backup, maintenance, patching, and failover for you so that […]