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Jeff Barr

Author: Jeff Barr

Jeff Barr is Chief Evangelist for AWS. He started this blog in 2004 and has been writing posts just about non-stop ever since.

AWS Week in Review – July 22, 2013

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 […]

Amazon CloudFront & Route 53 Expand to India

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 […]

Scientific / Academic / Non-Profit Poster Session at AWS re:Invent

Many academic and scientific conferences include a poster session. What’s That?Researchers describe their research and their results on an informative poster which they bring to the conference, where it is set up for display. The researchers stand by their posters to answer questions about the work and to discuss it with the attendees. Posters sessions […]

Empowering the Startup Ecosystem in Singapore With AWS

My colleague Joe Ziegler wrote the report below to recap and summarize the recent Cloud Kata event that we held in conjunction with the AWS Summit in Singapore. — Jeff; Summary AWS held the first Cloud Kata for Startups event in Singapore at the Marina Bay Sands on July 17th, bringing together over 800 entrepreneurs, […]

AWS Week in Review – July 15, 2013

Let’s take a quick look at what happened in AWS-land last week: Monday, July 15 We released the Choosing a Cloud Platform page. This happened a few weeks ago but I forgot to mention it. Tuesday, July 16 The AWS Security Blog published part 3 of a series on securing access to AWS using MFA. […]