Author: Jeff Barr

I have another triple dose of videos for you today. Continuing with our AWS Jobs video series, I interviewed an Amazon Recruiter, a Product Manager, and a TPM (Technical Program Manager). You can learn more about all of these jobs (and many others) on the AWS Careers page. We have open positions in North and […]

Let’s take a quick look at what happened in AWS-land last week: Monday, July 1 We launched the new Transaction Library for DynamoDB. We announced that Amazon RDS now supports version 5.6 of MySQL. The AWS PHP  Blog talks about the new AWS Service Provider for Laraval. Tuesday, July 2 We published a pair of […]

Continuing with our theme of publishing white papers to show you how to run popular relational and NoSQL databases on AWS, I am pleased to tell you that our new Riak on AWS white paper is now available. Authored by AWS Solutions Architect Brian Holcomb (a one-time member of the Obama for America campaign), this […]

You have a plethora of options when you want to run a relational or NoSQL databases on AWS. On the relational side, you can use the Relational Database Service (RDS) to run a MySQL, Oracle, or SQL Server database. RDS will take care of the scaling, backup, maintenance, patching, and failover for you so that […]

I am happy to announce that the Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) now supports version 5.6 of MySQL. If you are an existing RDS customer, you know that Amazon RDS for MySQL delivers several important benefits to MySQL customers including ease of deployment, high availability with automatic failure detection and failover, read replicas, push button […]

Today we are introducing a new client library that will reduce the development effort needed for you to perform atomic transactions that can encompass multiple DynamoDB items in one or more tables. This allows you to develop those applications more easily on DynamoDB that until now either required relational databases (with their attendant scalability issues) […]

Let’s take a quick look at what happened in AWS-land last week: Monday, June 24 We announced another European location for AWS Direct Connect. The AWS PHP blog revealed and explained the new Static Service Client Facades for the AWS SDK for PHP. Tuesday, June 25 Intel joined the AWS Marketplace with their Expressway API […]

Earlier this year we introduced a new DNS failover feature for Amazon Route 53. If you enable this feature and create one or more health checks, Route 53 will periodically run the checks and switch to a secondary address (possibly a static website hosted on Amazon S3) if several consecutive checks fail. Today we are […]