Author: Jeff Barr

I wrote about the exciting and economical EC2 Reserved Instances just a few weeks ago. The response to that announcement has been really good, with positive feedback from our customers who are enjoying this new option. Today I am happy to let you know that you can now reserve EC2 instances in our European (EU) […]

There are a number of webinars scheduled over the next several weeks, and the purpose of this post is to make certain everyone is aware of the various options and opportunities: Thursday, April 16 at 9:00am PST Cloud for Large Enterprise — Where to Start Hear Capgemini put AWS and cloud computing in context for […]

I am really excited to release our white paper on how to create HIPAA-compliant information processing systems in the Cloud. The paper focuses on the HIPAA sections: The Privacy Rule and The Security Rule, and how to encrypt and protect your data in the AWS cloud. White paper is now available on AWS website for […]

The Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS) launched over three years ago and is the quiet workhorse behind many of the highly scalable applications running on Amazon EC2. Today we are rolling out some important new features for Amazon SQS including availability from within our EU region, control of access permissions, and more control over […]

The Amazon FPS team just announced another webinar, designed to help you understand what the Amazon Flexible Payments Service (also known as Amazon FPS) is all about. Amazon FPS is a webservice that enables tens of millions of Amazon customers to complete payment transactions on your website or application using the information in their Amazon.com […]

Join the Amazon SimpleDB team for the latest in our ongoing Developer Brown Bag series. Topics will include: Recap of recently released features A step-by-step SimpleDB tutorial by AWS Evangelist Mike Culver Your questions We will take live questions via the webinar console, but to allow for a more thorough response, attendees are encouraged to […]

As more and more businesses run applications in the cloud, we’re starting to hear about mainstream software from the likes of IBM and Oracle running on Amazon EC2. There are strong privacy and security controls in place around each AWS customer account, and accordingly there’s no way for us to gain a sense of who […]

Today we are introducing Amazon Elastic MapReduce , our new Hadoop-based processing service. I’ll spend a few minutes talking about the generic MapReduce concept and then I’ll dive in to the details of this exciting new service. Over the past 3 or 4 years, scientists, researchers, and commercial developers have recognized and embraced the MapReduce […]

Early this morning we launched a brand new cloud computing service. This revolutionary new technology will change the way you think about the cloud. For a while the cloud was simply a metaphor meaning “a bunch of computers somewhere else.” Until now, somewhere else meant good old terra firma, the Earth itself. After extensive customer […]

Amazon S3 is now three years old and busier than ever. Just a year ago, there were 18 billion objects in S3. As of today there are 52 billion, a near three-fold increase. To celebrate S3’s third birthday, we have some special pricing for you. From now until the end of June 2009, uploads to […]