Author: Jeff Barr

UPDATE (May 5, 2018) The capacity management capabilities of Amazon DynamoDB were enhanced after this blog post was published. As a result, the post references information that may no longer be the most accurate or a best practice. Pease read the DynamoDB documentation on Best Practices for Designing and Using Partition Keys Effectively to learn […]

Today’s guest post comes to you from Omer Zaki, a Senior Product Manager on our Data Services team. Omer’s post talks about how our customers have put Amazon ElastiCache to use in a wide variety of applications and environments. — Jeff; We launched Amazon ElastiCache last year to make it easy to deploy, operate and […]

Let’s take a quick look at what happened in AWS-land last week: Tuesday, September 11 We launched the EC2 Reserved Instance Marketplace. Wednesday, September 12 We announced that Cluster GPU Instances are now available in the EU West (Ireland) region and inside of VPCs. We opened up a new CloudFront / Route 53 edge location in Madrid, […]

I am really looking forward to the re:Invent conference this coming November. I recently sat down with leaders of three of the tracks in order to learn more about the tracks. Deepak Singh told me all about the Compute and Networking track: Dan Rogers chatted about the Enterprise IT track, with sessions that will take […]

The Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) gives you the power to create a private, isolated section of the AWS Cloud. You have full control of network addressing. Each of your VPCs can include subnets (with access control lists), route tables, and gateways to your existing network and to the Internet. You can connect your VPC […]

As you can tell from some of my recent posts, we’re adding new features to the Virtual Private Cloud and to the Relational Database Service at a very rapid clip. Today’s release involves both of these services! You can now use launch RDS database instances running Microsoft SQL Server inside of a Virtual Private Cloud […]

I’ve been writing about and participating in our Start-Up Challenges since we launched the first one in 2007. I have always been impressed by the quality, depth, diversity, and sheer quantity of entries that we receive. I’ve long believed (and blogged about) the fact that the scalable, pay-as-you-go nature of AWS makes it an ideal […]

We announced an AWS Region in Tokyo about 18 months ago. In the time since the launch, our customers have launched all sorts of interesting applications and businesses there. Here are a few examples: Cookpad.com is the top recipe site in Japan. They are hosted entirely on AWS, and handle more than 15 million users […]