Author: Jeff Barr

I have made many visits to Japan over the last several years to speak at conferences and to meet with developers. I really enjoy the people, the strong sense of community, and the cuisine. Over the years I have learned that there’s really no substitute for sitting down, face to face, with customers and potential […]

We have a plethora of trade shows, live events and webinars on our calendar for March of 2011. First, the trade shows and live events: March 1 – Chicago AWS User Group Meetup. March 2-4 – Game Developers Conference (San Francisco, CA). March 2-3 – Nikkei BP Cloud Days (Tokyo, Japan). March 5-7 – ESRI […]

The AWS Management Console now includes full support for AWS CloudFormation. You can create stacks from templates, monitor the creation process, access the parameters and the outputs, and terminate the stack when you are done with it. As is my custom, here’s a tour! Start out on the AWS CloudFormation tab. This tab displays all […]

My wife’s “famous” Greek Easter Bread! My family does a lot of cooking and baking. Sometimes we start out with a goal, a menu, and some recipes. Other times we get a bit more creative and do something interesting with whatever we have on hand. As the lucky recipient of all of this calorie-laden deliciousness, […]

I’m very pleased to invite you all to join the AWS team in London, for our first Tech Summit of 2011. We’ll take a quick, high level tour of the Amazon Web Services cloud platform before diving into the technical detail of how to build highly available, fault tolerant systems, host databases and deploy Java applications […]

Attend the Amazon Web Services Workshop at Cloud Connect Knowing all the AWS services is one thing knowing when and where to use which one is a completely different issue. This workshop will not only help you understand different AWS Infrastructure services but also show you how to use them so that you can take […]

We’ve added two new features to the AWS Management Console: forced detach of EBS volumes and termination protection. Forced DetachFrom time to time an Elastic Block Storage (EBS) volume will refuse to cleanly detach itself from an EC2 instance. This can occur for several reasons, including continued system or user activity on the volume. Under […]

I love to meet with start-ups. There’s always energy, enthusiasm, creativity and a desire to change the world in some interesting way. Over the years I’ve also read and reviewed many of the applications for the AWS Start-Up Challenge. The AWS team has been working with a number of start-up incubators to make sure that […]

We’ve added some new features to Amazon S3 to make it even better at hosting static websites. Customers have been hosting their images and video for their websites on Amazon S3 for a long time. However, it was not that easy to host your entire website on S3. Why? If a user enters a site […]

The AWS Management Console now recognizes Users created via AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM). IAM users can now log in to the console and manage resources within an AWS account. IAM Users can be assigned individual Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) devices to provide additional security when they access the console. IAM can also be used […]