Author: Jeff Barr

The Amazon Simple Workflow Service (SWF) lets you build scalable, event-driven systems that coordinate work across many machines that can be either cloud-based or on-premises. The service handles coordination, logging, and auditing so that you don’t need to write a bunch of glue code or to maintain your own state machines. Instead, you can focus […]

My colleague Lesley Mbogo is a Senior Product Manager on the Elastic Load Balancing team. She sent along the post below to tell you all about an important new feature — support for the Proxy Protocol. — Jeff; Starting today, Elastic Load Balancing (ELB) supports Proxy Protocol version 1. You can now identify the originating […]

Would you like to test-drive AWS services, acquire some new skills, and gain practical experience working with a wide variety of AWS technologies? If so, the new AWS self-paced labs will be of great interest to you. We’ve been working with Cloud vLab (an APN Technology Partner) to create a set of hands-on, self-paced online […]

Let’s take a quick look at what happened in AWS-land last week: Monday, July 22 We added a number of new AWS case studies including Genome Medicine Institute, Hailo,  Rover.com, and The Schumacher Group. The AWS Security Blog talked about Controlling Network Access to EC2 Instances Using a Bastion Host. Tuesday, July 23 Building on […]

During my recent trip to Southeast Asia, several people asked me if we had plans to bring Amazon CloudFront and Route 53 to India. I responded as I always do — that we continue to invest and to expand, that we listen to our users, and that we make use of traffic and usage trends […]

Tom Rizzo provides an update on AWS developer tools for Windows, and brings word of a Developer Preview of the next version of the AWS SDK for .NET. — Jeff; Over the last few months, we have released a number of enhancements to help customers and partners build their Microsoft Windows centric workloads on AWS.  […]

You can now upload videos to your Amazon Cloud Drive and view them on your Kindle or your Android device. With support for a multitude of file formats and video codecs, implementing this feature from scratch would have been a lengthy and technically challenging undertaking. Cloud Drive already uses multiple AWS service, so using  Amazon […]

My colleague Chris Barclay sent along a blog post with great news for users of AWS OpsWorks! — Jeff; We are happy to introduce two new features for AWS OpsWorks that make it easier for you to manage applications: support for custom Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) and Chef 11. You can use these new features […]