Author: Jeff Barr

McCann Erickson is using the Mechanical Turk to collect information about people’s favorite locations around the United States. They’d like you to be as specific as possible, about places that you have actually visited. They are looking for the places that other people don’t always know about. The secret local hangout, or the place you […]

Update (January 29, 2016) – This blog post is six years old and many of the original links are now out of date. Take a look at the newer (albeit not by much) Oracle AMIs page for some alternatives. — Jeff; Oracle recently released several middleware Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) to the community. I want […]

The AWS Management Console now has support for our new Reserved Instances feature, previously announced in this very blog. You can now purchase new Reserved Instances and see your existing holdings with point-and-click ease. The EC2 tab of the console has a new button: You can see your existing set of Reserved Instances: And you […]

At 9:00 AM PST on Thursday, May 28th, we’ll be conducting webinar to help you get started with Elastic MapReduce. In the webinar you will learn how Elastic MapReduce enables you to focus on crunching or analyzing your data without having to set up, manage, or tune a Hadoop cluster. The webinar is free but […]

Imagine if you need to prepare the internet infrastructure needed to support a live event that: Will host a streaming video, Will start at a time that you can’t control, Will be of an unknown duration, May attract a worldwide audience, and Happens once in a blue moon. You can’t buy the infrastructure, since you’ll […]

Update (June 15, 2018) – Since the launch of this service almost a decade ago, we have launched many other data transfer services that may be easier for you to use including AWS Snowball, AWS Snowball Edge, AWS Snowmobile, and . Many years ago, professor Andy Tanenbaum wrote the following: Never underestimate the bandwidth of […]

The Amazon SimpleDB team just cranked out a bunch of new features for the Select function, bumped up the maximum size of a batch of Select results, and also deprecated the old Query functions and the non-SSL interface. All of this new functionality is available through the 2009-04-15 version of the SimpleDB WSDL file. You […]

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 […]