Author: Jeff Barr

The automated backup feature allows our customers to back up and restore their Relational Database Service (RDS) DB Instances. You can simply choose a non-zero backup retention period from the AWS Management Console: After fielding a number of customer requests, we have increased the maximum retention period from 8 days to 35 days. A number […]

We’ve put together a pair of new Getting Started Guides for Linux and Microsoft Windows. Both guides will show you how to use EC2, Elastic Load Balancing, Auto Scaling, and CloudWatch to host a web application. The Linux version of the guide (HTML, PDF) is built around the popular Drupal content management system. The Windows […]

Backup and Recover On March 29th I’ll be covering the topic of backup and recovery of on-premise and cloud-based Linux systems. I’ll cover a number of topics including creation of file archives, uploading to Amazon S3, and managing permissions and lifetimes. I will present a roundup of applicable backup and recovery tools and will do […]

I’m pleased to announce that the AWS Storage Gateway is now available in our South America (So Paulo) Region.  The AWS Storage Gateway service connects an on-premises software appliance with cloud-based storage to integrate your existing on-premises applications with the AWS storage infrastructure in a seamless, secure, and transparent fashion.  As I wrote in my […]

Weve gotten great feedback on the EC2 Instance Status checks that we introduced back in January. As I said at the time, we expect to add more of these checks throughout the year. Our goal is to get you the information that you need in order to understand when your EC2 resources are impaired. Status […]

We are excited to announce that we have added several new AWS Identity Access and Management (IAM) features aimed at providing you more flexibility and control when managing your IAM users. With todays launch you can now: Grant your IAM users access to the Account Activity page and Usage Reports page on the AWS website. […]

Big NewsI have three important announcements for EC2 users: We have introduced a new instance type, the Medium (m1.medium). You can now launch 64-bit operating systems on the m1.small and c1.medium instances. You can now log in to an EC2 instance from the AWS Management Console using an integrated SSH client. New Instance TypeThe new […]

Update (January 6, 2016) – The scripts described in this blog post have been deprecated and are no longer available. For updated information on how to perform the same tasks in a more modern fashion, please take a look at Sending Performance Counters to CloudWatch and Logs to CloudWatch Logs, Configuring a Windows Instance Using […]