Author: Jeff Barr

I am counting down the days to AWS re:Invent and am looking forward to meeting as many of my loyal readers as possible. With just a week to go, I thought it would be fun to let you know a bit more about the most popular sessions and to share some interesting stats and facts […]

In the latest episode of The AWS Report, I spoke with my colleague Robert Peterson to learn more about the AWS Marketplace. We discussed the benefits that it provides to users and vendors. Users get to choose from a wide variety of applications and launch them with one click; vendors have a new distribution channel […]

I know that many AWS customers are interested in building applications that run in more than one of the eight public AWS regions. As a result, we have been working to add features to AWS to simplify and streamline the data manipulation operations associated with building and running global applications. In the recent past we […]

AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM for short) lets you control access to AWS services and resources using access control policies. IAM includes a large collection of prebuilt policies, and you can also create your own. IAM policies are comprised of policy statements. Each statement either allows or denies access to some AWS services (at […]

Would you like to build rich, browser-based applications that make direct calls to AWS services without the need for any server-side code? If so, I invite you to take a look at the developer preview of our new AWS SDK for JavaScript. You can make direct calls to the following AWS services: Amazon S3 to […]

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 […]