Author: Jeff Barr

As you might know, you can use official Windows AMIs (Amazon Machine Images) to launch Amazon EC2 instances with Microsoft SQL Server, inside or outside a VPC (Virtual Private Cloud). Many customers are taking advantage of this possibility to run different types of workloads on the AWS Cloud. After listening to customer feedback (as we […]

The Multi-AZ (Availability Zone) feature of the Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) replicates database updates across two Availability Zones to increase durability and availability. Amazon RDS will automatically fail over to the standby for planned maintenance and unplanned disruptions: This feature is now available for all license types supported by Amazon RDS for Oracle Database […]

Let’s take a quick look at what happened in AWS-land last week: Monday, April 23 We announced that AWS Elastic Beanstalk is now available in our Asia Pacific (Tokyo) Region. Tuesday, April 24 We announced that Amazon DynamoDB is now available in three additional regions, bringing the total to six. We opened up registration for the AWS Summits in […]

Jeremy Lindblom of the AWS Developer Services team put together the following guest post to show PHP developers how to store session data in Amazon DynamoDB. — Jeff; The DynamoDB Session Handler is a new feature of the AWS SDK for PHP which allows developers to utilize Amazon DynamoDB the brand new NoSQL database service […]

The AWS team has been at Bio-IT World in Boston this week, hearing from a range of scientists, academics and industry folks about how they are using the cloud to store, process and collaborate around the large volumes of data arriving from sources such as the 1000 Genomes Project. Customers have found that AWS is […]

In today’s episode I interview Saad Ladki of the AWS Elastic Beanstalk team: In the video, Saad describes Elastic Beanstalk and talks about the ways in which our customers are putting it to use. I hope that you enjoy it! Post-production work on the video took a little bit longer than planned, and Saad didn’t […]

My friends over at Drobo recently let me know about a pair of additions to their product lineup. Taken together, they give you a lot of additional data storage, backup, and retrieval flexibility. If you don’t know, a Drobo is a local storage box designed for small and medium businesses that often don’t have a […]

AWS CloudFormation lets you  describe stacks of related AWS resources (EC2 instances, Elastic IP addresses, RDS DB Instances, and much more) using a template. The template can include runtime parameters, allowing you to customize each stack as you create it. CloudFormation automatically creates resources in dependency-based order; you simply tell it which resources you need […]