Author: Jeff Barr

Today we have a post written by guest blogger Alex Dunlap who is a Senior Manager on the AWS Team, responsible for Product Management for Amazon CloudFront and Amazon Route 53. And now to Alex… — Jeff; Over the last year, the Amazon CloudFront team has gotten several questions from customers on how they can […]

One of the most interesting and challenging jobs on the AWS team (besides mine, of course) is that of Solutions Architect. As a Solutions Architect, you spend virtually all of your time working with our customers to help them get the most from AWS.You could even find yourself in the middle of a presidential campaign. […]

Today we have an awesome guest post from a General Manager on the Amazon EC2 team. Enjoy! — Jeff; Before talking about Windows Server 2012, let me first introduce myself. My name is Tom Rizzo and Im the General Manager for the Windows team in AWS. I previously worked at Microsoft in a variety of […]

Today I’m happy to bring you a guest post from Anders Samuelsson, Senior Product Manager on the AWS Identity and Access Management team. — Jeff; Suppose you run a research lab and you dump a terabyte or so of data into Amazon DynamoDB for easy processing and analysis. Your colleagues at other labs and in […]

For this episode of The AWS Report, I interviewed David Rocamora, VP of DevOps for Controlgroup. We talked about the origins of cloud computing at Controlgroup, and the way that it has allowed them to make radical, transformative changes in the way that they design, develop, and deliver applications to their clients. We discussed a […]

Let’s take a quick look at what happened in AWS-land last week: Monday, November 12 We launched a new AWS Region in Sydney, Australia. Tuesday, November 13 I published a new episode of The AWS Report, featuring John Smiley of the Amazon RDS team. We announced four new cache node types for Amazon ElastiCache. We […]

The AWS Marketplace has been growing by leaps and bounds. The number of listings has been growing steadily and we’re really happy with the number of launches that are taking place. Today we are adding a new Big Data category to the Marketplace. We want to make it easier for you to store and analyze […]

Now that the 2012 US Presidential Election is over, I’d like to take you behind the scenes and tell you a bit about the technology that powered President Obama’s successful reelection campaign! To set the stage, imagine setting up the technology infrastructure needed to power a dynamic, billion-dollar organization under strict time limits using volunteer […]