Author: Jeff Barr

We just released version 1.0.8 of theAWS SDK for Java. In addition to some bug fixes, the SDK includes the following new features: Support for the new Reserved DB Instances. Improved constructors for the Amazon RDS model classes. A new StepFactory class to simplify the process of creating Elastic MapReduce job flows. Improved support for […]

We’re ready to start accepting entries for the AWS Start-Up Challenge 2010! Each year we run the challenge to help young, promising start-ups get noticed and to compete for $100,000 (USD) in cash and credits (full prize list). We’ve made some important changes this year: We can now accept applications from 22 countries across the […]

I can’t even leave my neighborhood without getting feature requests! My neighbor Rick was walking his dog past my house and stopped to ask me when we were going to support Reserved Instances for Amazon RDS. Such is life in the Pacific Northwest part of the US. Hey Rick, we’ve got your RDS Reserved Instances […]

I’ve got a pair of related news items for users of the Amazon Relational Database System (RDS): We now support version 5.1.49 of MySQL, with the InnoDB Plugin as the InnoDB storage engine. We now provide a new, optional level of control over when and if your DB Instance(s) are upgraded to new MySQL versions […]

Since the announcement of Recovery.gov last March, Amazon has seen an accelerating adoption of the cloud by our Federal customers.  These include Treasury.gov, the Federal Register 2.0 at the National Archives, the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program at USDA, the openEI.org project at DoE’s National Renewable Energy Lab, and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory at NASA.  On […]

If you have ever set up a web site from scratch, you know that you have to handle the root of the web site in a special way so that requests for the site’s root URL (e.g. http://aws.amazon.com) are handled properly. You generally map the root URL to an HTML document such as index.html using […]

My previous trips to China, India, Japan, London have been super productive. I get a chance to meet tons of new people, make a lot of friends and talk about something that I am truly passionate about: Cloud Architectures and Amazon Web Services Cloud. Next month, I will be in Brazil and traveling to 3 […]

Security is a top priority for Amazon Web Services. Providing a trustworthy infrastructure for you to develop and deploy applications is a responsibility we take very seriously. One important aspect of gaining your trust is being open and transparent about our security processes and continually working toward achieving industry-recognized certifications. Other important aspects include providing […]

You can now use the Linux kernel of your choice when you boot up an Amazon EC2 instance.  We have created a set of AKIs (Amazon Kernel Images) which contain the PV-Grub loader. This loader simply chain-boots the kernel provided in the associated AMI (Amazon Machine Image). Net-net, your instance ends up running the kernel […]

One thing that I love (among many) about working at Amazon.com is the customer-driven innovation cycle. We introduce a new product or service with a useful yet somewhat minimal feature set. We do this to get it out into the real world as soon as possible so that our customers can start to use it […]