Author: Jeff Barr

Amazon EC2’s Elastic Load Balancing feature just became a bit more powerful. Up until now each load balancer had the freedom to forward each incoming HTTP or TCP request to any of the EC2 instances under its purview. This resulted in a reasonably even load on each instance, but it also meant that each instance […]

Today I’d like to tell you about our newest service, the Amazon Simple Notification Service. We want to make it even easier for developers to build highly functional and architecturally complex applications on AWS. It turns out that applications of this type can often benefit from a publish/subscribe messaging paradigm. In such a system, publishers […]

A couple of members of the AWS Developer Support team put together the following tips and tricks to help you get the most from the Elastic Load Balancer. — Jeff; Are you thinking about using Amazon EC2 with Elastic Load Balancing, but want to make sure you set it up right the first time? Are […]

We’ve had more than our fair share of technical challenges along the way, but the time is right for me to talk about our newest product, the Quantum Compute Cloud, or QC2 for short. This is the first production-ready quantum computer. You can use it to solve certain types of math and logic problems with […]

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 […]