Author: Jeff Barr

This is what we have on our calendars for October: Webinars: October 4 – Demystifyng the Cloud – 11:00 AM October 5 – Provide details of CloudFront & Route 53 – 5:00 PM October 11 – Setting up your first server in the Cloud – 11:00 AM October 17 – Architecting for the Cloud – […]

I’ve been making a point of telling my live audiences about AWS CloudFormation lately. Many large-scale AWS customers are starting to appreciate the fact that they can describe and instantiate entire application stacks using parameterized templates (see my original CloudFormation blog post for more info), allowing them to create a repeatable process around it. Today […]

We’ve just added an edge location in Brazil (number 20 to be precise) to Amazon CloudFront and Amazon Route 53. This is our first edge location in South America. The new location will speed up references to static and streamed content that are made from locations in South America, and will also accelerate the resolution […]

I’ll be running a Big Data Hackathon at the SPLASH/OOPSLA Conference in Portland, Oregon next month. Hackathons are participatory event. You don’t show up to watch or to hang out; you show up to lead or to join a team of other developers to imagine, create, and build something cool and useful in the course […]

I never get tired of writing posts that announce price decreases on the various AWS services! Today, we are reducing the price to host a set of DNS records for a domain (which we call a hosted zone) using Amazon Route 53. Here’s the new pricing structure: $0.50 per hosted zone per month for the […]

We introduced the Amazon Linux AMI in beta form about a year ago with the goal of providing a simple, stable, and secure Linux environment for server-focused workloads. We’ve been really happy with the adoption we’ve seen so far, and we continue to improve the product and further integrate it with other Amazon Web Services […]

Over the summer months, we’d like to share a few stories from startups around the world: what are they working on and how they are using the cloud to get things done. Today, we’re profiling Filter Squad from Perth, Australia! In one of Werner Vogels‘ many travels through Australia this summer, he tweeted about a […]

In honor of today’s Facebook Developer Conference, I’d like to recognize the success of our existing Facebook app developers and invite even more developers to kick-start their next Facebook app project with Amazon Web Services. Quick Numbers We crunched some numbers and found out that 70% of the 50 most popular Facebook apps leverage one […]

Within Amazon, we often use the phrase “drinking our own champagne” to describe our practice of using our own products and services to prove them out under actual working conditions. We build products that we can use ourselves. We believe in them. Amazon’s Corporate IT recently wrapped up an important project and they have just […]

Do you use EC2 Spot Instances in your application? Do you understand how they work and how they can save you a lot of money? If you answered no to any of these questions, then you are behind the times and you need to catch up. I’m dead-serious. The scientific community was quick to recognize […]