Author: Jeff Barr

Under normal conditions, an Amazon S3 object in a bucket that is part of a CloudFront distribution can be cached at a CloudFront edge location per the object’s TTL (Time to Live). In many situations it is possible to come up with a reasonable value for the TTL ahead of time. In other cases you […]

After a rigorous and comprehensive assessment, Appian has received an Authority to Operate (ATO) from the U.S .Department of Education for the Department’s Appian Anywhere BPM (Business Process Management) application, which is built on AWS. Appian Anywhere provides IT request management, marketing request management, and project management using a SaaS model. The assessment covered the […]

I almost missed a really important anniversary! Yesterday marked Amazon EC2‘s fourth birthday. Here are some of the ways that EC2 has grown and changed in the last four years: Category 2006 2010 Regions One Four Availability Zones One Ten Availability Zones Instance Types One Nine Pricing Models One Three Storage Ephemeral Storage Ephemeral StorageElastic […]

Good news for all those interested in security…we’ve released the fourth version of our Overview of Security Processes whitepaper. It contains ten pages of new and additional detailed information. Highlights of new content include: A description of the AWS control environment A list of our SAS-70 Type II Control Objectives Some discussion of risk management […]

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 […]