Author: Jeff Barr

We are working to make it even easier for you to build sophisticated, scalable, and robust web applications using AWS. As soon as you launch some EC2 instances, you want visibility into resource utilization and overall performance. You want your application to be able to scale on demand based on traffic and system load. You […]

Marc from Quetzall sent me a note about their new CloudCache product. CloudCache is a fast, lightweight key-value caching system designed for use within the cloud. Each key can optionally have an associated TTL (time to live). Once the TTL is reached the key and the associated value are removed from the cache. Running on […]

Mike from Cirrhus9 just told me that they’ll be hosting a Cloud Adoption Webinar on the 28th of May. In the webinar you will learn about the factors which influence cloud adoption rates and how a company’s culture can affect the adoption curve. You’ll also get to hear success stories of successful migrations of infrastructure […]

We recently announced the release of Amazon Simple Pay Subscriptions. You can use this product to charge your customers on a recurring basis after a single authorization from the customer. If you offer digital content subscriptions, collect membership dues on a periodic basis, or provide premium services on your website, this service is for you. […]

.notyet20090430 { background-color:yellow; } We just added a handy new request logging feature to Amazon CloudFront. One line is written to a log file each time an object is accessed via CloudFront. This data (object name, access point, time of access, and so forth) can be used to generate usage reports using reporting tools. Once […]

We’ve been doing a lot of Webinars lately! This week I will be hosting one that will provide a technical overview of IBM products now available in the AWS cloud on a pay-as-you-go basis, including IBM DB2, IBM Informix, IBM WebSphere sMash, IBM Lotus Web Content Management, and IBM WebSphere Portal Server. SugarCRM software architect […]

.quote20090501 { width: 80%; border: 1px dotted black; padding: 8px; margin-left: 60px; margin-bottom: 10px; } We’ve put together a Mechanical Turk Resource Center jam-packed with interesting and useful information. You can start by reading about How Mechanical Turk Can Help Your Business. Then you can read about how requesters are using Mechanical Turk on our […]

I spent the last two days at the International Informix User Group Conference in Overland Park, Kansas. The Conference was packed with 240+ Informix architects, DBAs, customers, system integrators and IBM employees, despite bad weather including thunder storms and tornado warnings. Informix Dynamic Server Express and Workgroup editions are now available in the Cloud. IBM […]

.div20090427 { /* width: 250px;*/ /* float: left;*/ border: 1px dotted black; padding: 8px; margin: 16px; } When I entered college in 1978, the state of the art in campus computing consisted of a room full of IBM 029 Key Punch machines, an IBM 370 Model 168 mainframe, and job queues where my card deck […]

On Wednesday, May 27th at 8:00 AM PST, the Oracle Technology Network will conduct a Virtual Developer Day. Developers will learn how Cloud Development Environments can help enterprise Java developers create Java and Rich Enterprise Applications without having to download, install, or configure a development environment on their machine. Attendees will receive technical training on […]