Author: Jeff Barr

In this post I would like to introduce you to some of the principal concepts behind AWS Elastic Beanstalk. This information should be helpful to you as you read the remaining blog posts in this collection. Here are the terms that you need to know: An Application is a collection of Elastic Beanstalk application versions […]

Earlier this week I spent some time on the phone with Eric Fontaine of HeyWatch. Eric gave me some background information on their video encoding and sharing platform and I thought I would share it with you. HeyWatch has been making use of AWS since 2006 and I am a bit embarrassed that it has […]

From aeronautics to genomics to financial services, High Performance Computing is becoming a common requirement in many fields of industry and academia. Traditionally, the barrier to entry into this area has remained high, with the expertise and cost needed to provide such facilities proving to be prohibitive. With Amazon EC2’s Cluster Compute instances, extremely high […]

As part of a new, monthly hands on series of webinars, I’ll be giving a technical review of building, managing and maintaining high availability websites and web applications using Amazons cloud computing platform. Hosting websites and web applications is a very common use of our services, and in this webinar we’ll take a hands-on approach […]

I blogged about our new AWS SDK for Android a few weeks ago. The response to the SDK has been quite good and I expect to start hearing about some great apps and success stories before too long. If you are using the SDK to build an Android application, I would like to encourage you […]

I’ve created a Coming Soon box at the top right of the blog to make it easier for you to learn about upcoming AWS events. Here’s a summary of our plans for January 2011 (not 2010 as originally titled): January 12 – PHP Office Hours – The topic will be PHP and how you can […]

I have a number of Elastic MapReduce updates for you: Support for S3’s Large Objects and Multipart Upload Upgraded Hive Support JDBC Drivers for Hive A tutorial on the use of Squirrel SQL with Elastic MapReduce Support for S3’s Large Objects and Multipart Upload We recently introduced an important new feature for Amazon S3 the […]

I’ve got some really important news about our AWS Premium Support offering. We’ve added new Bronze and Platinum plans, reduced our prices, and increased our responsiveness. New Support PlansWe are introducing two new support plans. The new Bronze plan is aimed at individual developers and costs just $49 per month. The new Platinum plan is […]

The new AWS Policy Generator simplifies the process of creating policy documents for the Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS), Amazon S3, the Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS), and AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM). You begin by selecting the type of policy that you’d like to create. I’ll create an IAM policy for this post. […]

On January 27, 2010, Deepak Singh, PhD (Senior Business Development Director for AWS and author of the Business, Bytes, Genes, and Molecules blog) will discuss Analytics in the Cloud in a live webinar. Deepak will explain how businesses of any size can rapidly and cost-effectively analyze data sets of any size. The webinar is free […]