Author: Jeff Barr

Update (September 2021) – Changed the URL for the Venetian Hotel. Earlier this year I asked you to start thinking about attending and perhaps even speaking at AWS re:Invent, our first global customer and partner conference. The conference will be held from November 27-29 at the Venetian Hotel in Las Vegas. We’ve arranged for three […]

The Amazon Simple Email Service (SES) gives you the power to send bulk and transactional emails, with a focus on ease of use and deliverability. After you sign up for Amazon SES, you simply verify your domain, request production access, send email, and monitor the results. What’s Deliverability? Deliverability refers to the likelihood that an […]

Let’s take a quick look at what happened in AWS-land last week: Monday, July 9th We updated Elastic MapReduce with better support for AMI versioning and an updated version of Hive.. Tuesday, July 10th AWS Elastic Beanstalk is now supported in two additional regions. AWS now supports MFA-protected API access. Wednesday, July 11th You can now run the Database Tuning Advisor […]

The AWS Developer Productivity and tools team is responsible for making the AWS developer experience as positive and productive as possible. The team is responsible for AWS Elastic Beanstalk, AWS CloudFormation, the language-specific SDKs, tools, documentation, and the AWS Management Console. A number of members of the team will be attending OSCON to attend sessions […]

Ok folks, this one is a mouthful, so bear with me! The Amazon Relational Database Service for SQL Server now supports the Microsoft SQL Server Database Engine Tuning Advisor. The Advisor will help you to select and create an optimal set of indexes, indexed views, and partitions even if you don’t have an expert-level understanding of […]

Today’s guest blogger is Kai Zhao, a Product Manager on the AWS Identity and Access Management team. Kai brings word of a powerful new IAM feature. — Jeff; Introduction In 2009, we introduced AWS Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA), a security feature that requires users to prove physical possession of an MFA device by providing a valid […]

We’ve brought AWS Elastic Beanstalk to both of the US West regions, bringing the total to five: US East (Northern Virginia) Asia Pacific (Tokyo) EU (Ireland) US West (Oregon) US West (Northern California) I have recently spent some time creating and uploading some PHP applications to Elastic Beanstalk using Git and the new ‘eb’ command. […]

Let’s take a quick look at what happened in AWS-land last week: Friday, July 6 This week AWS Marketplace added a number of new products available via Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) including Code Creators Moodle Cloud, ScaleOuts StateServer, Porticors VPD Appliances, and Kognitios Analytical Platform. You can now have multiple IP addresses for your EC2 instances running […]