Author: Jeff Barr

The AWS Management Console has a brand new tab: This new tab contains full support for Amazon CloudFront. You can start distributing your content in minutes. You don’t need to make a long term commitment and you don’t need to download a client application. It is now even easier to access CloudFront in pay-as-you-go fashion. […]

Gowalla is a location-based iPhone game. Currently focused on Austin, Boston, New York, and San Francisco, the application runs on any iPhone 3G with the location-based services turned on. You use Gowalla to collect “virtual souvenirs” by visiting specified locations in each city, neatly combining the virtual and the real worlds. A product of Alamofire, […]

S3Stat now has the ability to analyze the logs generated by Amazon CloudFront using the venerable Webalizer package. With your permission, S3Stat will enable CloudFront logging for the distributions of your choice. It will then run Webalizer each day and deposit the report in S3 for easy browsing. Of course, as the name implies, you […]

The new version of ScienceResearch.com was officially launched today. Earlier this year I spoke with company president Abe Lederman and learned that this deep web science search engine provides a single point of access to over 400 publicly accessible science and technology collections. The new version is hosted on EC2 and includes advanced search features […]

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Update (January 29, 2016) – This blog post is six years old and many of the original links are now out of date.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 AWS Direct Connect. Many years ago, professor Andy Tanenbaum wrote the following: Never underestimate the […]