Author: Jeff Barr

Amazon RDS makes it easy to provision and run production databases, and customers running RDS for SQL Server will be pleased to hear they can now use SQL Server Agent to schedule and execute administrative tasks on their databases. SQL Server Agent is a tool designed to take some of the manual heavy lifting of […]

We’re adding a new region to our High Performance Computing service on EC2 today, and making a new template available to spin up clusters quickly and easily. But first, a quick recap. The story of High Performance Computing on EC2 As the name suggests, High Performance Computing (HPC) users have an insatiable desire for compute, […]

Esri is one of the leaders in the Geographic Information Systems (GIS) industry and one of the largest privately held software companies focused on mapping and geospatial applications in the world with offices in more than 100 countries. Both public and private sector organizations use Esri technology to analyze and manage their geographic information and make better […]

Growth Challenges You probably know how it goes when you put AWS to work for your company. You start small — one Amazon S3 bucket for some backups, or one Amazon EC2 instance hosting a single web site or web application. Things work out well and before you know it, word of your success spreads […]

As Werner noted recently, Amazon DynamoDB is the fastest growing new service in the history of AWS! If you are a DynamoDB user, you already know the drill — create a table, provision the throughput (in terms of read and write capacity units per second), and start storing and retrieving data without worrying about hitting […]

You Need Glacier Im going to bet that you (or your organization) spend a lot of time and a lot of money archiving mission-critical data. No matter whether youre currently using disk, optical media or tape-based storage, its probably a more complicated and expensive process than youd like which has you spending time maintaining hardware, […]

Let’s take a quick look at what happened in AWS-land last week: Monday, August 13 We updated AWS Direct Connect with new locations and AWS Management Console support. We published another AWS Report, this one featuring Kate Matsudaira, CTO of Decide.com. Thursday, August 16 We added additional features to Amazon RDS for Oracle Database, including support for running in […]

Its a good day to be a Python developer: AWS Elastic Beanstalk now supports Python applications! If youre not familiar with Elastic Beanstalk, its the easiest way to deploy and manage scalable PHP, Java, .NET, and now Python applications on AWS. You simply upload your application, and Elastic Beanstalk automatically handles all of the details associated […]