Author: Jeff Barr

We really enjoy talking to our users and learning from them. Next month we’re going to hold an interactive online Q&A session to give you the chance to ask technical and business questions. The first session will focus on Amazon EC2 and will take place at 9 AM PST on November 10, 2010. We’ll be […]

Interest for AWS is constantly growing in the APAC region, therefore I want to share with you some upcoming events in Asia. Oct 19th, New Delhi, India, 5:45pm-10:00pm: AWS Cloud Computing event at Hyatt Regency Delhi – Bhikaiji Cama Place (registration closed). Oct 20th, Mumbai, India, 5:45pm-10:00pm: AWS Cloud Computing event at The Leela Kempinski […]

You can now create a highly scalable, load-balanced web site using multiple Amazon EC2 instances, and you can easily arrange for the entire HTTPS encryption and decryption process (generally known as SSL termination) to be handled by an Elastic Load Balancer. Your users can benefit from encrypted communication with very little operational overhead or administrative […]

The AWS Management Console now provides full support for the Amazon Simple Notification Service. You can create and subscribe to topics, and you can publish notifications to topics. You can see all of your topics and your subscriptions at a glance, and you have full control of the permissions on each of your topics. Let’s […]

We introduced the DB Engine Version Management feature earlier this year to give you control over the version of MySQL running in each of your DB Instances. You can now access this feature from the AWS Management Console. You can create a new DB Instance using any supported version of MySQL: You can also upgrade […]

We’re inviting all developers and architects to join us for a special event in London focussing on development, testing and architectural best practices in the cloud. When and where? Tuesday 9th November, at the Thistle Marble Arch Hotel. We’ll get started at 2pm, and finish up with a beer at around 5pm. What will be […]

A critical aspect of the value proposition for the Amazon Web Services revolves around choice. This takes many forms, each of which gives you the freedom to choose the best fit for your particular situation: A wide variety of services that you can choose to use, or not, as determined by your needs. Ten EC2 […]

It is always fun to write about price reductions. I enjoy knowing that our customers will find AWS to be an even better value over time as we work on their behalf to lower our own costs and pass the savings along. Effective October 1, 2010 we are reducing the On-Demand and Reserved pricing for […]

It is possible to characterize the workload handled by a relational database in terms of the ratio of reads to writes. Some applications seem to use about the same number of reads and writes. Others write a little bit of data and read a lot. This read-heavy behavior is frequently seen in web applications. Different […]

We are already putting together our 2011 plans for AWS. I can’t tell you what we are planning to do, but I can tell you that we need to hire some more great people in order to turn these plans into the kinds of amazing services that you have come to expect from us. The […]