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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.

AWS Week in Review – May 7, 2012

Let’s take a quick look at what happened in AWS-land last week: Monday,  May 7 We released the EC2 VM Import Connector for VMware vCenter version 1.2.0. Tuesday, May 8 The Relational Database Service now supports SQL Server. You can now run .NET applications on AWS Elastic Beanstalk. Wednesday, May 9 We introduced APIs and IAM support […]

AWS 포탈 – 한국어 컨텐츠 추가

AWS , AWS . . , AWS . : , , . , AWS 7 . EC2 : ———— AWS Portal – Adding Korean Content   We’ve added another entry to the language menu in the AWS Portal to make AWS accessible to an even wider audience: We are doing this to make sure that […]

Monitor Estimated Charges Using Billing Alerts

IntroductionBecause the AWS Cloud operates on a pay-as-you-go model, your monthly bill will reflect your actual usage. In situations where your overall consumption can vary from hour to hour, it is always a good idea to log in to the AWS portal and check your account activity on a regular basis. We want to make […]

AWS Storage Gateway – APIs and IAM Support

We have added two new features to the AWS Storage Gateway: a powerful set of APIs and support for AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM). AWS Storage Gateway APIsUp until now, the AWS Storage Gateway was configurable through the AWS Management Console.  You can now configure and manage your gateways programmatically, using the Storage Gateway […]

Amazon RDS for SQL Server and .NET support for AWS Elastic Beanstalk

We are continuing to simplify the Windows development experience on AWS, and today we are excited to announce Amazon RDS for SQL Server and .NET support for AWS Elastic Beanstalk. Amazon RDS takes care of the tedious aspects of deploying, scaling, patching, and backing up of a relational database, freeing you from time-consuming database administration […]

AWS Week in Review – April 30, 2012

Let’s take a quick look at what happened in AWS-land last week: Monday, April 30 Nature Magazine published a detailed article on the 1000 Genomes Project. Per the supplemental note, this data (all 260 TB) is available in Amazon S3. Tuesday, May 1 The article on Data Sharing Options for Scientific Workflows on Amazon EC2 was published. Wednesday, May 2 We […]

Updated Microsoft SQL Server Offerings

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 […]