Author: Jeff Barr

As Werner noted recently, Amazon DynamoDB is the fastest growing new service in the history of AWS! If you are a DynamoDB user, you already know the drill — create a table, provision the throughput (in terms of read and write capacity units per second), and start storing and retrieving data without worrying about hitting […]

You Need Glacier Im going to bet that you (or your organization) spend a lot of time and a lot of money archiving mission-critical data. No matter whether youre currently using disk, optical media or tape-based storage, its probably a more complicated and expensive process than youd like which has you spending time maintaining hardware, […]

Let’s take a quick look at what happened in AWS-land last week: Monday, August 13 We updated AWS Direct Connect with new locations and AWS Management Console support. We published another AWS Report, this one featuring Kate Matsudaira, CTO of Decide.com. Thursday, August 16 We added additional features to Amazon RDS for Oracle Database, including support for running in […]

Its a good day to be a Python developer: AWS Elastic Beanstalk now supports Python applications! If youre not familiar with Elastic Beanstalk, its the easiest way to deploy and manage scalable PHP, Java, .NET, and now Python applications on AWS. You simply upload your application, and Elastic Beanstalk automatically handles all of the details associated […]

We have added three new features to Amazon RDS for Oracle Database to enable you to use it for more of your use cases: You can use Amazon RDS for Oracle in Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) You can use Oracle XML DB to store, retrieve, navigate, and query XML documents.  You can use Oracle […]

Let’s take a quick look at what happened in AWS-land last week: Monday, August 6 AWS Elastic MapReduce now supports Hadoop 1.0.3 including HDFS over HTTP. Wednesday, August 8 We released some EBS Provisioned IOPS resources including a benchmarking guide. Thursday, August 9 We reduced the minimum throughput for DynamoDB tables. Stay tuned for another exciting week! — Jeff;   Modified […]

Did you know that you can use AWS Direct Connect to set up a dedicated 1 Gbps or 10 Gbps network connect from your existing data center or corporate office to AWS? New Locations Today we are adding two additional Direct Connect locations so that you have even more ways to reduce your network costs […]

I interviewed Kate Matsudaira, CTO of Decide.com, for The AWS Report. Kate told me how Decide.com uses AWS to implement  a next-generation online (web and mobile) shopping experience using terabytes of data pulled from thousands of sources. Behind the scenes, Decide.com uses a number of AWS services including EC2, S3, and Elastic MapReduce. Because they […]