Author: Jeff Barr

Late last year I blogged about JumpBox . I talked about how their lineup of public EC2 AMIs really streamlined the process of getting started with a number of powerful open source applications. Earlier this week, Sean and Kimbro of JumpBox told me about their newest development, the JumpBox Rapid Trial. Powered by EC2, the […]

Hello again, readers, this is Simone Brunozzi, technology evangelist for AWS in Europe! As you know, my job implies lots of travel.  It’s a great chance to meet with AWS enthusiasts and customers.  Along the way, I’ve come across some great success stories. Industria , Iceland Industria’s mission is to improve the TV viewing experience […]

We’ve been working to make it possible for you to run Windows or SQL Server in additional locations and to build highly available applications. You now have the ability to launch EC2 running Windows or SQL Server in the EU-West region, in two separate Availability Zones. You can also launch EC2 running Windows or SQL […]

One of my favorite parts of my job is meeting people and watching them innovate with Cloud technology. So I want to tell you about a recent weekend trip to the Bay Area. Last weekend I was in Mountain View, CA to attend OpenSocials WeekendApps event. This was held at the Googleplex, and was designed […]

Are you thinking about accepting payments on your website? Or perhaps you already accept payments, but you’re tired of the fees and an inflexible interface. The Amazon Flexible Payment Service team is presenting two free webinars that will be very useful in either case. The first session is on Wednesday March 4, 2009, from 11:00 […]

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We have just released four additional AWS public data sets, and have updated another one. In the Economics category, we have added a set of transportation databases from the US Bureau of Transportation Statistics. Data and statistics are provided for aviation, maritime, highway, transit, rail, pipeline, bike & pedestrian, and other modes of transportation, all […]

I am giving a presentation at upcoming FutureTest conference on “Testing in the Cloud”. Using Amazon EC2 for Software Testing  is one of “Lowest-hanging fruit” use cases. In this blog post, I will review some of the highlights of my presentation – some of the cool things the cloud brings to the world of application […]

Update: We’ve reached capacity, but we’ll be recording the event and sharing it on our website in the near future. If you are in New York City, I’d like to call your attention to an executive briefing on that will be held at NASDAQ Marketsite in Times Square on Tuesday, March 3rd. This half-day event […]

We’ve introduced two improvements to SimpleDB‘s Select API. You can now count the number of items which match a condition, and you can handle queries which take more than 5 seconds to run. The new count function is used like this: select count(*) from MyFriends where EyeColor = ‘Blue’ Queries which take more than 5 […]