Author: Jeff Barr

To make it even easier for you to build AWS applications that span regions, we’re introducing a new EBS Snapshot Copy feature today. You can now copy EBS snapshots between EC2 Regions. Why Copy? So, why would you want to copy an EBS Snapshot from one AWS Region to another? Here are some of the […]

Let’s take a quick look at what happened in AWS-land last week: Monday, December 10 We announced the results of the first EC2 Spotathon. Congratulations to the winners! Wednesday, December 12 We added a number of new customer case studies: BioSense 2.0 from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, MPS Technologies (creation and […]

At AWS we place a high value on the “Voice of the Customer.” We do our best to listen and to learn, and to make sure that our plans line up with what we are hearing. We’ve had a number of requests for better access to more detailed billing data. We took the first step […]

Let’s take a quick look at what happened in AWS-land last week: Monday, December 3 We announced that Amazon DynamoDB is now avaiable in the AWS GovCloud (US). Tuesday, December 4 We announced that there are now Windows products in the AWS Marketplace. We introduced the AWS SDK for Node.js. Wednesday, December 5 We introduced […]

Last week at the AWS re:Invent conference, we announced the results of the first-ever Amazon EC2 Spotathon. Stephen Elliott, Senior Product Manager on the Amazon EC2 team, provided us with a very informative guest post with a full recap of the proceedings. — Jeff; We set up the Spotathon to publicly recognize some of the […]

We launched an AWS Region in Brazil almost a year ago, along with Portuguese and Spanish versions of the AWS Blog. Today we are adding the following new AWS functionality in the Region: AWS Elastic Beanstalk – You can now deploy and manage .NET, PHP, Python, Ruby, and Java applications in the AWS Cloud using […]

Tom Rizzo is back, with his second Windows Wednesday post! — Jeff; Over the years, we have introduced a number of tools that make it easy for Windows customers to use Amazon Web Services. We provide an SDK for .NET, an Elastic Beanstalk container for hosting .NET applications, an integrated toolkit for Visual Studio, and […]

The AWS Developer Tools Team focuses on delivering the developer tools and SDKs that are a good fit for today’s languages and programming environments. Today we are announcing support for the JavaScript language in the Node.js environment — the new AWS SDK for Node.js. Node.js gives you the power to write  server-side applications in JavaScript. […]