Author: Jeff Barr

Dave Naffis of Intridea wrote to tell me that they have released Scalr in open source form. Scalr is a fully redundant, self-curing, self-hosting EC2 environment. Using Scalr you can create a server farm using prebuilt AMI’s for load balancing (either Pound or nginx), web servers, and databases. There’s also a generic AMI that you […]

One of the great perks of working at Amazon is that you get to work with a bunch of great people and also with their dogs! As previously noted in our blog, Rufus is a valued part of our Developer Relations team. He’s a Rhodesian Ridgeback owned by Martin Buhr. Martin works on business development […]

I want to be sure that all readers of this blog are aware of our self-service wiki powered scheduling system! In advance of each trip that Mike, Jinesh, or I take, we create an entry on our Evangelists Wiki. We fill it in with the anchor events for our trip and leave some time open […]

We just added three important new features to Amazon EC2: Elastic IP Addresses, Availability Zones, and User Selectable Kernels. The documentation, the WSDL, the AMI tools, and the command line tools have been revised to match and there’s a release note as well. Read on to learn all about them… The Elastic IP Addresses feature […]

I just received word that James Murty‘s new book, Programming Amazon Web Services, has been published and that copies are now available. The Amazon site is still showing the book as available for pre-order but this should change within a day or two. The book contained detailed information about the use of Amazon S3, Amazon […]

This is a great case study demonstrating how smart developers are moving their production environments over to Amazon EC2. Last December, I met with Pramati Technologies – a well known household name when it comes to JEE Web Application Server. I learnt about their really cool Web 2.0 product: Dekoh. Dekoh can be described as […]

The Amazon Fulfillment Web Service (Amazon FWS) allows merchants to tap in to Amazons network of fulfillment centers and our expertise in logistics. Merchants can store their own products to our fulfillment centers and then, using a simple web service interface, fulfill orders for the products.    Thats right make a web service call, ship […]

There are any number of references on the Web to Amazons focus on being the earths most customer centric company; that passion and determination comes straight from Jeff Bezos. It’s in this traditon that the product team posted a design spec for enhancements to Amazon S3. As Alyssa Henry says in the forum post, we’ve […]

Jay Ridgeway from ShareThis.com co-presented with me at ETech recently. We were telling a packed room about Amazon SimpleDB, and Jay was specifically telling folks about how ShareThis implemented this Web service. You should check out their site–it’s a great way to share content and allow others to drive traffic to your site. I found […]

First Ever Hadoop Summit was full in matter of hours when they added 40 more seats to event. After I wrote my blog post Taking Massive Distributed Computing to the Common Man – Hadoop on EC2/S3, we got several requests inside and outside from Amazon to attend the summit. We contacted our friends at Yahoo! […]