Author: Jeff Barr

I interviewed Todd Fasullo of Smartsheet learn more about Smartsheet and how it uses AWS to support online collaboration. Todd told me that they started using Amazon S3 way back in 2006 to store uploads and attachments. They added CloudFront support in a matter of days, and also use the Amazon Mechanical Turk as part […]

I interviewed Chris Wheeler from the Amazon Simple Email Service (SES) team to learn more about SES and about how to get started with it. Chris walked me through the setup process, including the process to move from the sandbox to production. I enjoyed speaking with Chris and I hope that you will enjoy our […]

Let’s take a quick look at what happened in AWS-land last week: Monday, August 20 We released Amazon Glacier, archival storage for one penny per Gigabyte per month. Tuesday, August 21 Amazon DynamoDB now supports storage and retrieval of binary data. We released AWS Cost Allocation for customer bills. Wednesday, August 22 You can now launch EC2 Cluster Compute Instances in […]

In this episode of The AWS Report I spoke with Anders Samuelsson, Senior Product Manager on the AWS Identity and Access Management team. We covered the basics of IAM and also chatted about the newest IAM feature, roles for EC2 instances: I hope that you enjoy the video. We have many more of them in […]

Amazon RDS makes it easy to provision and run production databases, and customers running RDS for SQL Server will be pleased to hear they can now use SQL Server Agent to schedule and execute administrative tasks on their databases. SQL Server Agent is a tool designed to take some of the manual heavy lifting of […]

We’re adding a new region to our High Performance Computing service on EC2 today, and making a new template available to spin up clusters quickly and easily. But first, a quick recap. The story of High Performance Computing on EC2 As the name suggests, High Performance Computing (HPC) users have an insatiable desire for compute, […]

Esri is one of the leaders in the Geographic Information Systems (GIS) industry and one of the largest privately held software companies focused on mapping and geospatial applications in the world with offices in more than 100 countries. Both public and private sector organizations use Esri technology to analyze and manage their geographic information and make better […]

Growth Challenges You probably know how it goes when you put AWS to work for your company. You start small — one Amazon S3 bucket for some backups, or one Amazon EC2 instance hosting a single web site or web application. Things work out well and before you know it, word of your success spreads […]