Author: Jeff Barr

Amazon Web Services has teamed up with Binpress, a marketplace where developers buy and sell source code from one another, to sponsor a developer contest for the most useful source-code packages. The line-up for prizes is enticing a mix of cash and other awards with a total value of $40,000. AWS is offering $3,500 in […]

We’ve got a lot of interesting live events and webinars planned for February of 2011. First, the live events: Feb 1 – Silicon Valley Cloud Computing Group  – What’s new with AWS – Mountain View, CA. Feb 1 – AWS 101 Cloud Computing Seminar: Making the Case for Cloud – Sydney, Australia. Feb 1 – […]

The number of objects stored in Amazon S3 continues to grow: Here are the stats, measured at the end of the fourth quarter of each year: 2006 – 2.9 billion objects 2007 – 14 billion objects 2008 – 40 billion objects 2009 – 102 billion objects 2010 – 262 billion objects The peak request rate […]

The AWS Management Console now includes support for the new Amazon CloudWatch features described in my other posts. The new CloudWatch tab on the console gives you complete access to all of the metrics collected for your EC2 instances, EBS volumes, RDS DB Instances, and Elastic Load Balancers. You can look at the statistics numerically, […]

Like most technical endeavors, sending email is a lot harder than it looks! The simple solutions that are entirely adequate when you have to send a couple of dozen daily emails simply don’t work when you need to send out hundreds, thousands, or even millions of emails over the same time period. To pick just […]

I’ve been looking forward to being able to tell you about this new part of AWS for quite a while. Perhaps I’m biased, but I do think that this is a pretty big deal! I think we’ve managed to balance power and ease of use in a nice tidy package that will make AWS even […]

The default configuration settings for your AWS Elastic Beanstalk application were chosen to work well under a wide variety of conditions. However, rest assured that you have the ability to view and to edit the settings as you’d like if and when you decide to “open the hood” (so to speak). You can do all […]

You can create, test, debug, and deploy an AWS Elastic Beanstalk application from within the comfort of the Eclipse IDE. The newest version of the AWS Toolkit for Eclipse includes a brand-new plug-in that lets you deploy Java web applications to Elastic Beanstalk from within Eclipse. This toolkit includes the AWS SDK for Java along […]

The AWS Management Console includes support for AWS Elastic Beanstalk. If you already have a Java WAR file that you want to use to try out Elastic Beanstalk, you can do so through its browser-based interface. If you don’t happen to have an application of your own handy, you can use the sample application provided […]

Let’s talk about the way that your design your application for use within AWS Elastic Beanstalk.. As I have already mentioned, Elastic Beanstalk will handle the nitty-gritty day-to-day details associated with running and scaling your application. You get to focus on your application and on your customers instead of on the details of the infrastructure. […]