Author: Jeff Barr

If you are like me, you spent this past Sunday afternoon looking forward to the landing of the Curiosity rover on Mars. I was able to wrest the remote control away from my family and change to NASA TV in time to watch through the aptly named “seven minutes of terror” as Curiosity performed an […]

Our recent release of the EBS Provisioned IOPS feature (blog post, explanatory video, EBS home page) has met with a very warm reception. Developers all over the world are already making use of this important and powerful new EC2 feature. I would like to make you aware of some other new resources and blog posts […]

Building mobile applications that are able to run on a variety of device types and operating systems is difficult. Building an enterprise application that connect to a variety of data sources is also tough. Combine the two, and you have a difficult challenge, and one that is very relevant in today’s world — the construction […]

I recently interviewed Sharon Chiarella for The AWS Report. Sharon is an Amazon Vice President with responsibility for the Amazon Mechanical Turk. After we talked about the Mechanical Turk concept in general terms (“a marketplace for work,”) we zoomed in and talked about the kinds of work that is being done and who’s doing it: […]

Let’s take a quick look at what happened in AWS-land last week: Monday, July 30 Our friends at Netflix published the code for their Chaos Monkey, a member of their Simian Army of testing tools. You can now buy EC2 Reserved Instances for Red Hat Enterprise Linux. I posted the newest episode of The AWS Report with […]

The I/O Imperative As I noted earlier this month, modern web and mobile applications are highly I/O dependent, storing and retrieving lots of data in order to deliver a rich and personalized experience. In order to give you the I/O performance and the flexibility that you need to build these types of applications, we’ve released […]

I recently interviewed Dave Peck, Co-Founder of Seattle-based Cloak. Designed for Macs, iPads, and iPhones, Cloak keeps you safe when you use public Wi-Fi networks in coffee shops, airports, hotels and conferences. It does this by creating an encrypted VPN connection between your device and and an Amazon EC2 instance run and managed by Cloak. […]

You can now purchase EC2 Reserved Instances running Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Reserved Instances lower costs by giving you the option to make a low, one-time payment to reserve compute capacity and receive a significant discount on the hourly charge for that instance. Reserved Instances are complementary to existing Red Hat Enterprise Linux On-Demand Instances […]