Author: Jeff Barr

Here’s some information on some AWS events coming up in April, all on the East Coast of the US: I will be speaking at the Rochester AWS User Group at 6:00 PM on Monday, April 5th. My talk will cover some of the latest AWS developments including the Virtual Private Cloud and the Relational Database […]

I’d like to call your attention to a new feature that we rolled out earlier this month. You can now provide us with a configurable Reverse DNS record for any of your Elastic IP addresses. Once you’ve supplied us with the record, reverse DNS lookups (from IP address to domain name) will work as expected: […]

Prior to our planned launch of an AWS Region in Singapore, we’ve opened up our third Amazon CloudFront edge location in Asia, joining the existing locations in Hong Kong and Tokyo, for a total of fifteen locations world-wide. The new Singapore edge location will reduce latency for end users in Singapore and throughout Southeast Asia. […]

I never tire of telling our customers that they’ll be saving money by using AWS! Effective April 1, 2010, we’ll add up the bandwidth you use for Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), Amazon SimpleDB, Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS), and the Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS) on  […]

Update (November 2011): The information in this post is no longer relevant. Read our post Extending Microsoft Licensing Mobility to the AWS Cloud: Now You Can Run Several Windows Server Applications on AWS for an update. When we talk about AWS with potential users, they often ask if Windows Server is available. As you know, […]

Kimbro and Sean at JumpBox have been breaking a lot of new ground as they strive to make it even easier to run a wide variety of open source applications in a service-oriented fashion. I spent some time talking to Sean yesterday and he walked me through their latest step into the self-service, push-button world […]

I am very happy to announce the new AWS SDK for Java. Java Developers can use this SDK to build powerful AWS applications. We have also updated our AWS Toolkit for Eclipse and together with the SDK, developers can easily use the powerful Eclipse IDE to build new AWS-powered Java applications. The SDK includes: An […]

Amazon S3‘s new Versioning feature has now graduated to production status! Once you have enabled versioning for a particular S3 bucket, you can create a new version of an object by simply uploading it. The old versions continue to exist and remain accessible. Versioning’s MFA Delete feature has also graduated to production status. Once enabled […]

There are all sorts of interesting events coming up this spring. Here’s a sampling; check out the AWS Events page and our newsletters for a more complete list: Learn how to manage Grid Processing for Financial Institutions (March 17, 8:00 AM PST) Register for this webinar to learn how to effectively manage large grid processing […]

We’ve made two improvements to AWS Import/Export. You can now send us a “raw” or internal SATA drive all by itself, with no need for an enclosure. You don’t have to send connectors, cables, or power cords. Raw SATA drives appear to be the most cost-effective way to send large amounts of data from place […]