Author: Jeff Barr

Over the past six or seven years I have had the opportunity to see customers of all sizes use Amazon EC2 to power their applications, including high traffic web sites, Genome analysis platforms, and SAP applications. I have learned that the developers of the most successful applications and services use a rigorous performance testing and […]

Let’s take a quick look at what happened in AWS-land last week: Monday, May 6 We announced that the AWS SDK for Node.js is now generally available. The AWS Security Blog discussed Writing IAM Policies to Grant Access to S3 Buckets. Tuesday, May 7 We announced that you can now Provision up to 4,000 PIOPs […]

After four months of planning and over 500 emails, I am less than 48 hours away from the start of my 5,000 mile road trip! I have created the AWS Road Trip site to give you the opportunity to follow my journey. I will be posting photos, videos, maps, and more as I make my […]

Amazon Web Services is sponsoring the new Animated Short Films category at this year’s Napa Valley Film Festival. This new category will encourage animated short film submissions and the use of technology to bring a story to life. We hope that this focus on animated filmmaking will provide the digital animation community with a platform […]

You can use AWS Direct Connect to create a dedicated network connection from your datacenter, office, or colocation environment to AWS. Connections are always made to a particular Direct Connect location, and can run at either 1 Gbps or 10 Gbps. We are making two important announcements today. First, we are opening up an AWS […]

Tom Rizzo is back with another Windows Wednesday post, announcing a new feature that will make it even easier for you to monitor your EC2 instances running Windows. — Jeff; With our continuing investment in making AWS the best place to run Windows and Windows workloads, we are making an announcement today that makes running […]

I am happy to announce that EBS Provisioned IOPS volumes now support up to 4,000 IOPS. This represents a fourfold increase from the original Provisioned IOPS volume performance since last year’s launch. You can now dial it up to 4,000 IOPS and up to 1 TB of storage per Provisioned IOPS volume. You no longer […]

I saw an interesting quote this past weekend from inventor and entrepreneur Dean Kamen. In response to a claim of instant success for one of his products, Dean responded that it wasn’t in fact instant, but was actually the result of between 15 and 20 years of research and development. Amazon S3 hasn’t been around […]