Author: Jeff Barr

My inbox is overflowing with great things that deserve blog posts of their very own, but since they come in so fast I am going to summarize them in this catchup post. Here’s what I’ve seen recently: Dmitriy Samovskiy wrote about Building a Multisourced Infrastructure Using OpenVPN in the most recent issue of Linux Journal. […]

Not so long ago, it was both difficult and expensive to perform massive distributed processing using a large cluster of machines. Mainly because: It was difficult to get the funding to acquire this ‘large cluster of machines’. Once acquired, it was difficult to manage (powering/cooling/maintenance) it and we always had a fear of what-if the […]

Nik Rao of Orglex wrote to tell me about his site and about how they are using Amazon EC2, S3, and the Alexa Web Information Service to build their site. Orglex is focused on providing information services to industry professionals in vertical markets such as health insurance, clinical trials, and venture capital. Their service has […]

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Jungle Disk is looking for a C/C++ developer to work directly on the product, and for a C#/ASP.Net developer to work on the web site. More info can be found in Jungle Dave’s blog post. Ronald Lewis is offering a 10% discount on EC2-based consulting jobs. — Jeff; PS – I will be happy to […]

We have simplified the process of requesting additional EC2 instances. You no longer need to call me at home or send a box of dog biscuits to Rufus. You can now make a request by simply filling out the Request to Increase the Amazon EC2 Instance Limit form. We’ll need to know a little bit […]

If there was ever any doubt about the power each of us have, this week proved that one person makes a real difference. I am midway two-week trip to New Zealand and Australia, and writing this post from New Zealand. The person that Im talking about is Nick Joneslet me explain how this evangelism trip […]

I want to make sure that you are aware of the Success Stories section of our web site! Within that section you can learn about how companies large and small are using our Utility Computing Platform (EC2, S3, SimpleDB, and SQS), the Amazon Associates Web Service, the Amazon Mechanical Turk and the Alexa Web Information […]

My friends at Bungee Labs have rolled out the newest release of Bungee Connect, their browser-based application development and hosting platform. They have also released a library which makes it really easy to make calls to Amazon SimpleDB. The library wraps all of the SimpleDB SOAP calls and handles all of the authentication as well. […]

S3Stat is a log analysis tool for Amazon S3. This very helpful tool uses the log files generated by S3, analyzes them using Webalizer, and generates a variety of insightful and colorful reports. I have been using S3Stat on one of my own buckets for the last couple of months and have been pleased with […]