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Jeff Barr

Author: Jeff Barr

Jeff Barr is Chief Evangelist for AWS. He started this blog in 2004 and has been writing posts just about non-stop ever since.

Meet the AWS Developer Productivity and Tools Team at OSCON

The AWS Developer Productivity and tools team is responsible for making the AWS developer experience as positive and productive as possible. The team is responsible for AWS Elastic Beanstalk, AWS CloudFormation, the language-specific SDKs, tools, documentation, and the AWS Management Console. A number of members of the team will be attending OSCON to attend sessions […]

Database Engine Tuning Advisor for Amazon RDS

Ok folks, this one is a mouthful, so bear with me! The Amazon Relational Database Service for SQL Server now supports the Microsoft SQL Server Database Engine Tuning Advisor. The Advisor will help you to select and create an optimal set of indexes, indexed views, and partitions even if you don’t have an expert-level understanding of […]

New AWS Feature – MFA-Protected API Access

Today’s guest blogger is Kai Zhao, a Product Manager on the AWS Identity and Access Management team. Kai brings word of a powerful new IAM feature. — Jeff; Introduction In 2009, we introduced AWS Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA), a security feature that requires users to prove physical possession of an MFA device by providing a valid […]

AWS Week in Review – July 2, 2012

Let’s take a quick look at what happened in AWS-land last week: Friday, July 6 This week AWS Marketplace added a number of new products available via Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) including Code Creators Moodle Cloud, ScaleOuts StateServer, Porticors VPD Appliances, and Kognitios Analytical Platform. You can now have multiple IP addresses for your EC2 instances running […]

AWS Week in Review – June 25, 2012

Let’s take a quick look at what happened in AWS-land last week: Monday, June 25 We announced that the AWS Partner Network is now live. Our friends at Netflix announced Asgard for web-clased deployment and managment of cloud resources. Tuesday, June 26 We now support programmable feedback notification for the Simple Email Service. We updated the AWS SDK for […]