Author: Jeff Barr

If you build AWS applications that span two or more AWS regions, this post is for you. We are reducing the cost to transfer data from the South America (São Paulo), Middle East (Bahrain), Africa (Cape Town), and Asia Pacific (Sydney) Regions to other AWS regions as follows, effective May 1, 2020: Region Old Rate […]

Video is central to so many online experiences. Regardless of the origin or creator, today’s viewers expect a high-resolution, broadcast-quality experience. In sophisticated environments, dedicated hardware and an associated A/V team can capture, encode, and stream or store video that meets these expectations. However, cost and operational complexity have prevented others from delivering a similar […]

The AWS DeepRacer League gives you the opportunity to race for prizes and glory, while also having fun & learning about reinforcement learning. You can use the AWS DeepRacer 3D racing simulator to build, train, and evaluate your models. You can review the results and improve your models in order to ensure that they are […]

Today’s applications encompass hundreds or thousands of moving parts including containers, microservices, legacy internal services, and third-party services. In addition to monitoring the health and performance of each part, you need to make sure that the parts come together to deliver an acceptable customer experience. CloudWatch Synthetics (announced at AWS re:Invent 2019) allows you to […]

Last year, my colleague Ilya Bezdelev wrote Introducing AWS Chatbot: ChatOps for AWS to launch the public beta of AWS Chatbot. He also participated in the re:Invent 2019 Launchpad and did an in-depth AWS Chatbot demo: In his initial post, Ilya showed you how you can practice ChatOps within Amazon Chime or Slack, receiving AWS […]

Amazon EC2 Spot Instances were launched way back in 2009. The instances are spare EC2 compute capacity that is available at savings of up to 90% when compared to the On-Demand prices. Spot Instances can be interrupted by EC2 (with a two minute heads-up), but are otherwise the same as On-Demand instances. You can use […]

Over the last couple of years I’ve told you about several members of the “Snow” family of edge computing and data transfer devices – The original Snowball, the more-powerful Snowball Edge, and the exabyte-scale Snowmobile. Today I would like to tell you about the latest updates to Snowball Edge. Here’s what I have for you […]

I have good news for AWS customers using our South America (São Paulo) Region. Effective April 1, 2020 we are reducing prices for Data Transfer Out to the Internet (DTO) from the South America (São Paulo) Region by 40%. Data Transfer in remains free. Here are the new prices for DTO from EC2, S3, and […]