Author: Jeff Barr

Assay Depot is an online marketplace for pharmaceutical research services. After I saw a mention of EC2 on their blog I sent them a quick note so that I could learn a bit more about what they are doing. Chris Peterson, Assay Depot’s CIO, was kind enough to take some time away from his sunny […]

Developers who have found our cloud computing model attractive have been asking us to be a little bit more open about what we are planning to do in the future. To date we’ve simply announced new additions to the Amazon Web Services lineup, with immediate beta availability at the time of announcement. Earlier this year […]

Certainly one of the most popular on-demand software applications of all time is Salesforce.com. Their “no installation” approach to software changed the CRM industry, and one of the features that made them even more popular was the ability for third parties to provide even more value via add-in applications. One of these third party applications […]

In the past we’ve blogged about Digital Bucket, which is a great app for storing files in Amazon S3. I’m mentioning them again because they’ve added all sorts of new features. If you are a Windows user, I think you’ll find this to be intuitive and seamless! A few of new goodies are as follows: […]

In the midst of one of my trips to London last year, I received a last-minute invitation to speak to a room full of entrepreneurs at a venture capital firm. I was happy to oblige and talked to them about EC2, S3, and so forth. One of the entrepreneurs in attendance was Andra Tori of […]

Dave Naffis of Intridea wrote to tell me that they have released Scalr in open source form. Scalr is a fully redundant, self-curing, self-hosting EC2 environment. Using Scalr you can create a server farm using prebuilt AMI’s for load balancing (either Pound or nginx), web servers, and databases. There’s also a generic AMI that you […]

One of the great perks of working at Amazon is that you get to work with a bunch of great people and also with their dogs! As previously noted in our blog, Rufus is a valued part of our Developer Relations team. He’s a Rhodesian Ridgeback owned by Martin Buhr. Martin works on business development […]

I want to be sure that all readers of this blog are aware of our self-service wiki powered scheduling system! In advance of each trip that Mike, Jinesh, or I take, we create an entry on our Evangelists Wiki. We fill it in with the anchor events for our trip and leave some time open […]

We just added three important new features to Amazon EC2: Elastic IP Addresses, Availability Zones, and User Selectable Kernels. The documentation, the WSDL, the AMI tools, and the command line tools have been revised to match and there’s a release note as well. Read on to learn all about them… The Elastic IP Addresses feature […]

I just received word that James Murty‘s new book, Programming Amazon Web Services, has been published and that copies are now available. The Amazon site is still showing the book as available for pre-order but this should change within a day or two. The book contained detailed information about the use of Amazon S3, Amazon […]