Author: Jeff Barr

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 […]

On Thursday, May 27th I’ll be participating in Cloud Computing for the Enterprise Webinar hosted by NewScale. I’ll provide a business and technical introduction to AWS and then NewScale’s Jamie MacQuarrie will talk about their policy-based approval and governance system for management of local and cloud-based resources. The webinar is free but you need to […]

My friends over at Minneapolis-based enStratus Networks emailed me yesterday to give me a heads-up on their newest release of their Cloud Management Solution. They have had full support for Amazon EC2 instances, S3 storage, Elastic IP Addresses, CloudWatch, Elastic Block Storage, Auto Scaling, Simple Notification Service, and CloudFront for a while. Today’s release adds […]

I’ve got a cool new Amazon S3 feature to tell you about, but I need to start with a definition! Let’s define durability (with respect to an object stored in S3) as the probability that the object will remain intact and accessible after a period of one year. 100% durability would mean that there’s no […]

Amazon RDS simplifies many of the common tasks associated with the deployment, operation, and scaling of a relational database. You don’t have to worry about acquiring and installing hardware, loading an operating system, installing and configuring MySQL, or managing backups. In addition, scaling the processing power or storage space available to your database is as […]

Would you like to learn more about the Amazon Mechanical Turk and how you can make use of an on-demand workforce to add a human element to your application? Do you need to identify objects in a photo, remove duplicate data items, transcribe audio, or perform online research? If so, you should plan to attend […]

You can now enable logging for an Amazon CloudFront Streaming distribution (see my recent post for more information about CloudFront Streaming). Once enabled for a particular distribution, CloudFront logs all accesses to a designated Amazon S3 bucket.The information in the log files will let you know which of your streaming media files are the most […]