Author: Jeff Barr

A couple of really cool third-party AWS tracking sites have sprung up lately. Some of these sites make use of AWS data directly and others measure it using their own proprietary methodologies. I don’t have any special insight in to the design or operation of these sites, but at first glance they appear to be […]

The AWS Management Console now supports Amazon EC2’s Elastic Load Balancing feature. Here’s a tour, starting with the navigation pane: Clicking on Load Balancers displays all of your Elastic Load Balancers. If you don’t have any, you see the Create button instead: When you click on the Create button you’ll see the four-step wizard: In […]

Good day, everyone. I’m Steve Riley. In July 2009 I joined the AWS evangelism team. I spent my first few months absorbing information about all our offerings and am now getting back on the road again, speaking at various events and user groups and meeting with customers. I came from Microsoft, where I was in […]

Hi there, this is Simone Brunozzi, Technology Evangelist for AWS in Europe. I’ll steal the keyboard from Jeff Barr for a few minutes to share something really interesting with you: in fact, It is always fascinating to see how our customers are using the Amazon Web Services to power their businesses. Olivier Gutknecht, Director of […]

We have a number of open positions within Amazon Web Services in Europe. Most of these are based in Luxembourg. Here are the links to the positions: Technology Evangelist, Amazon Web Services Solutions Architect, Amazon Web Services (UK-based) Marketing Manager, Amazon Web Services Business Development Manager, EU Solution Provider Program, AWS Regional Sales Manager, Germany […]

Amazon CloudFront now supports streaming of media files stored in Amazon S3. You can now use CloudFront to improve access to your static content (HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and so forth) as well as your streaming content. We are using version 3.5.2 of the Adobe Flash Media Server (FMS) and we support the RTMP, RTMPT (HTTP […]

I am happy to announce that the Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) is now available to all current and future Amazon EC2 customers. VPC users are charged only for VPN connection hours and for data transfer, making this a very cost-efficient way to create a secure and seamless bridge between a company’s existing IT infrastructure […]

We have a whole new way for you to request access to Amazon EC2 processing power! Using our new Spot Instances, you can bid for one or more EC2 instances at the price you are willing to pay. Your Spot Instance request consists of a number of parameters including the maximum bid that you are […]

You can now run Microsoft Windows Server 2008, SQL Server 2008 Express, and SQL Server Standard 2008 on Amazon EC2. There has been a lot of demand for this particular feature and I’m happy to be able to make this announcement! You can launch these instances in all three AWS Regions (US East, US West, […]

AWS Import/Export is a fast and reliable alternative to sending large volumes of data across the internet. You can send us a blank storage device and we’ll copy the contents of one or more Amazon S3 buckets to it before shipping it back to you. Or, you can send us a storage device full of […]