Author: Jeff Barr

Amazon Elastic MapReduce now includes support for the Pig Latin programming language. A product of the Apache Software Foundation, Pig Latin is a SQL-like data transformation language. You can use Pig Latin to run complex processes on large-scale compute clusters without having to spend time learning the MapReduce paradigm. Pig Latin programs are built around […]

The Amazon Mechanical Turk team will be holding Meetups in Seattle and Mid-town New York in the next couple of weeks. Attendees will learn about new ways to use the Mechanical Turk’s global on-demand workforce, discover best practices for recruiting and managing a qualified worker group, and see how to break down complex projects into […]

Nikolai Longolius and his partners founded Schnee Von Morgen in 2008, with offices in Berlin, Hamburg and Vienna. They focus on the promising market of Web TVs.Their team, consisting of TV producers, computer scientists and journalists, offers WebTV solutions for professional broadcasters. Their current project is a platform for German documentaries for the Development Company […]

Sebastian Stadil wrote to let me know that Scalr has graduated from beta and is now generally available.  The 1.0 release includes a number of new features including: APIs for control of your  server farm: LaunchFarm, TerminateFarm, ListRoles, GetFarmStats, ExecuteScript, ListFarms, ListScripts, and ListApplications. Support for Elastic Load Balancing. Rotating EBS snapshots. Additional scaling algorithms […]

Mike from Cirrhus9 wrote to let me know that they’ll be conducting a webinar on August 12th to discuss their new Qualified Machine Image (QMI) for the Life Science and Pharmaceutical industries. The QMIs are Amazon EC2 AMIs with complete installation and operation documentation. Currently in beta testing, the QMI is designed to help organizations […]

In years past, we have surveyed some of our customers to learn more about where they would like to see us take AWS. This year we have decided to open up the survey to all readers of this blog. I would like to invite all our customers and prospects to fill up our 2009 AWS […]

The popular AWS Toolkit for Eclipse now supports Amazon SimpleDB. Designed for version 3.5 of Eclipse and building on top of the Eclipse Data Tools Platform, the toolkit provides complete management support for SimpleDB. After opening Eclipse, you simply choose the Database Development Perspective, connect to SimpleDB using your AWS access identifiers, and view your […]

Its always interesting to see what people use Amazon Web Services for. This blog post is on one hand a look at an interesting example; however it is also a chance to participate in a social experiment. Adam Ginsburg from Sydney Australia set up a form to let you vote on what he should do […]

Here are some good resources for current and potential users of our Elastic Load Balancing, Auto Scaling, and Amazon CloudWatch features: Version 1.8a of the popular Boto library for AWS now supports all three of the new features. Written in Python, Boto provides access to Amazon EC2, Amazon S3, Amazon SQS, Amazon Mechanical Turk, Amazon […]

We’re kicking off the third annual AWS Start-Up Challenge now. We’re looking for the hottest and coolest start-ups and start-up ideas. Developers and entrepreneurs in the United States, United Kingdom, Germany, and Israel are encouraged to enter for a chance to win $50,000 in cash, $50,000 in AWS credits, mentoring sessions from AWS technical experts, […]