Author: Jeff Barr

Hello!  I’m Matt Wood, and I’ve just joined Amazon Web Services as the new Technology Evangelist for Europe. Before joining Amazon I built web-scale search engines at Cornell University in New York City (of which Amazon CTO Werner Vogels is a fellow alumni), document management systems in Cambridge and genes in Hinxton. At the Wellcome Trust Sanger […]

Update 2 (27 Oct 2017): This post is no longer current. I would recommend that you start by reading the Network and Security documentation and read about Web Application Hosting in the AWS Cloud. You should also take a look at the Reference Architecture for Web Application Hosting and the Web Hosting Best Practices white […]

The AWS Management Console now includes support for Amazon S3. You can upload and download individual objects and groups of objects. You can control permissions and metadata, and you can create sub-folders to further organize the contents of your buckets. Here’s a rundown on the major features… Your buckets are shown on the left; the […]

We added full programmability to AWS Import/Export in order to make it even easier for you to move large amounts of data in to or out of Amazon S3. The new API is very straightforward. You use CreateJob to create a new Import or Export job, and ListJobs to retrieve a list of your jobs. […]

We continue to enhance Amazon CloudFront at a rapid pace. Here’s the latest and greatest: We’ve added a new edge location in New York City. This location will provide even better performance to users requesting your content from New York and the northeastern United States. We’ve reduced pricing for CloudFront HTTP requests by 25%. The […]

The AWS Marketing Team has been cooking up a number of really good events. Here’s what we have in store for you in June: I took this photo earlier this year when I visited NY, PA, and DC in the same week. June 15th – Jinesh Varia will discuss architectural design patterns in cloud computing […]

NASA Jet Propulsion Lab, NASA’s lead center for robotic exploration of the solar system is doing some pretty extraordinary things with the AWS cloud. I had the opportunity to meet with their CTO to discuss some of the interesting projects they are working on. Like the early explorers of Deep Space, they were also early […]

We’ve updated Amazon Elastic MapReduce with support for the latest and greatest versions of the following components: Hadoop 0.20 Hive 0.5 Pig 0.6 The new version of Hadoop includes the following enhancements: MultipleInputs class for reading multiple types of data.  MultipleOutputs class for writing multiple types of data. ChainMapper and ChainReducer which allows users to […]

Mike from Cirrhus9 wrote to tell me that they’ve teamed up with SecuCloud to produce a new database security and compliance solution which just happens to be available as a DevPay AMI for use on Amazon EC2. The solution has two components: a Security Weakness Analyzer (SWA)and Database Monitoring and Auditing (DBMA). The Security Weakness […]

The AWS Management Console now supports the Amazon Relational Database Service: You can now create, manage, and scale DB Instances with point and click ease. Let’s start by launching an instance using the Launch DB Instance Wizard. Click on the Launch DB Instance button: Fill in the first page of the wizard. Enter the desired […]