Author: Jeff Barr

I am very happy to announce our new AWS whitepaper “Architecting for the Cloud: Best Practices.” For several years, software architects have discovered and implemented several concepts and best practices to build highly scalable applications. Today, these concepts are even more applicable because of ever-growing datasets, unpredictable traffic patterns, and the demand for faster response […]

Thanks to those who wrote to me with ideas about using ADFS to federate with Windows instances running on Amazon EC2. My original post was picked up by a couple other blogs, which Id like to acknowledge here:     ADFS / WIF on Amazon EC2 by Eugenio Pace (part of the ClaimsID Project)     A […]

Good day, everyone. The Software and Information Industry Association (SIIA) is hosting a webinar about cloud security on Tuesday 19 January 2010 at 12:30 PM EST/9:30 AM PST. I’m one of the panelists. Here’s a brief blurb and a list of the participants: Cloud webinar series: Cloud Security for DummiesSecurity and cloud computing have come […]

As you know, Amazon Web Services is rapidly expanding in the Asia Pacific region. We have a number of open positions with base in Singapore. Here are the links to the positions: Solution Architect Sales Account Manager Data Center Technician Data Center Manager If you’re interested and want to join our fast-growing AWS family, apply […]

As I’ve talked with customers who have deployed or plan to deploy Windows Server 2008 instances on Amazon EC2, one feature they commonly inquire about is Active Directory Federation Services (ADFS). There seems to be a lot of interest in ADFS v2 with its support for WS-Federation and Windows Identity Foundation. These capabilities are fully […]

We’ve just put a number of AWS Solution pages on line to provide more information about some of the more popular ways that our customers put AWS to use. Here’s what we have: Application Hosting Backup Storage Content Delivery E-Commerce Applications Enterprise IT HPC Applications Media Hosting Search Engines Web Hosting iPhone Application Hosting Facebook […]

AWS-Powered Walkshed is a finalist in the NYC Big Apps Contest and they need your vote in order to win! Built by Philadelphia-based Avencia, Walkshed combines 10 data sources chosen from the NYC Data Mine to compute and display personalized walkability maps based on a set of seventeen priorities such as proximity to grocery stores, […]

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 […]