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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.

Internal Elastic Load Balancers in the Virtual Private Cloud

Today’s guest post comes to you courtesy of Spencer Dillard, Product Manager for AWS Elastic Load Balancing. — Jeff; One of the challenges weve heard about many times from customers is the challenge of load balancing between tiers of an application. While Elastic Load Balancing addresses many of the complexities of building a highly available […]

Amazon CloudFront – More PoPs and More Growth

I spent some time chatting with the Amazon CloudFront team to make sure that I knew what was going on. Here’s an update: More PoPs and More Growth Amazon CloudFront now has 32 global PoPs (Points of Presence) with the addition of second PoPs in Dallas and Paris (5/29).  The team has been quietly adding […]

New – Programmatic Access to AWS Billing Data

You can now access your AWS billing data programmatically. This has been a much-requested feature and I’m confident that it will be put to good use right away. To get started, all you need to do is to provide an Amazon S3 bucket for your billing data, give the AWS Billing system permission to write […]

Behind the Scenes of the Amazon Appstore Test Drive

The Amazon Appstore for Android has a really cool Test Drive feature. It allows you to instantly try select applications through your computer browser or Android phone before you elect to install them. There’s some interesting technology behind the Test Drive, and I’d like to tell you a little bit more about it. Let’s start […]

Lots of SAP News to Start the Week

Last week one of my colleagues stopped me in the hall and said “Jeff, you have to tell our customers about all of the great work that we are doing with SAP.” I asked him for some details and he was happy to oblige. SAP Business All-in-One is an important piece of enterprise software, a […]

AWS Week in Review – May 28, 2012

Let’s take a quick look at what happened in AWS-land last week: Monday, May 28 We celebrated Memorial Day in the US! Tuesday, May 29 We enabled the use of Oracle Enterprise Manager (OEM) for Oracle DB Instances. Wednesday, May 30 We announced that version 0.8.1 of Hive is now available for Amazon Elastic MapReduce. Frank Munoz released […]