Author: Jeff Barr

Data. Information. Big Data. Business Intelligence. It’s all the rage these days. Companies of all sizes are realizing that managing data is a lot more complicated and time consuming than in the past, despite the fact that the cost of the underlying storage continues to decline. Buried deep within this mountain of data is the […]

Amazon ElastiCache gives you the power to improve application performance by adding a flexible, scalable caching layer between your application and your database. Today we are happy to announce a new feature that will make ElastiCache even easier to use. Our new Auto Discovery feature will allow your applications to automatically and transparently adapt to […]

I’m writing to you from the floor of AWS re:Invent, where a capacity crowd is learning all about the latest and greatest AWS developments. As part of the welcoming keynote, AWS Senior VP Andy Jassy announced that were reducing prices again. This is our 24th price reduction – we continue to innovate on our customers […]

You may have noticed that we announced Amazon Redshift today a data warehouse service that is a lot faster, simpler, and less expensive than alternatives available today. Let’s Talk About Data A data warehouse is a specialized type of relational database, optimized for high-performance analysis and reporting of transactions. It collects current and historical transactional […]

The AWS Trusted Advisor is really cool. It provides you with advice and recommendations that will allow you to spend less money on AWS, and to make better use of a number of AWS features and facilities. I recently spoke to Forest Johns, Product Manager for the AWS Trusted Advisor, to learn more about it: […]

AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) enables you to create and manage IAM users and manage access to your AWS account. Some customers have told us that they prefer leveraging their existing corporate identities to access AWS services and resources via identity federation.  Today, were making it even easier for you to get started with […]

For this episode of The AWS Report, I traveled to San Francisco and spoke with Venugopal Pai, Vice President of Alliances at Riverbed: Pai (as he prefers to be called) talks about Riverbed’s evolution from WAN performance to application performance and now to datacenter performance. A number of Riverbed products including the Stingray Traffic Manager, […]

Let’s take a quick look at what happened in AWS-land last week: Monday, November 19 The most recent episode of The AWS Report features an interview with David Rocamore of Controlgroup. We now support delegating API access to AWS services using IAM roles. We announced that Windows Server 2012 is now available on AWS. Tuesday, […]