Author: Jeff Barr

Jeremy Lindblom of the AWS Developer Services team put together the following guest post to show PHP developers how to store session data in Amazon DynamoDB. — Jeff; The DynamoDB Session Handler is a new feature of the AWS SDK for PHP which allows developers to utilize Amazon DynamoDB the brand new NoSQL database service […]

The AWS team has been at Bio-IT World in Boston this week, hearing from a range of scientists, academics and industry folks about how they are using the cloud to store, process and collaborate around the large volumes of data arriving from sources such as the 1000 Genomes Project. Customers have found that AWS is […]

In today’s episode I interview Saad Ladki of the AWS Elastic Beanstalk team: In the video, Saad describes Elastic Beanstalk and talks about the ways in which our customers are putting it to use. I hope that you enjoy it! Post-production work on the video took a little bit longer than planned, and Saad didn’t […]

My friends over at Drobo recently let me know about a pair of additions to their product lineup. Taken together, they give you a lot of additional data storage, backup, and retrieval flexibility. If you don’t know, a Drobo is a local storage box designed for small and medium businesses that often don’t have a […]

AWS CloudFormation lets you  describe stacks of related AWS resources (EC2 instances, Elastic IP addresses, RDS DB Instances, and much more) using a template. The template can include runtime parameters, allowing you to customize each stack as you create it. CloudFormation automatically creates resources in dependency-based order; you simply tell it which resources you need […]

Effectively immediately, Amazon DynamoDB is available in three additional AWS Regions. Here’s the complete list: US East (Northern Virginia) EU (Ireland) Asia Pacific (Tokyo) US West (Northern California) – New US West (Oregon) – New Asia Pacific (Singapore) – New You can find the complete list of HTTP and HTTPS service endpoints here. For more […]

Saad from the Elastic Beanstalk team has some great news! — Jeff; Today we are expanding the availability of AWS Elastic Beanstalk to the Asia Pacific (Tokyo) region. Developers can now leverage the service in both the Asia Pacific (Tokyo) region and the US East (North Virginia) region. To celebrate this new regional launch, I […]

I spent a week of vacation offline and managed to avoid email, web sites, and news feeds for the vast majority of the time. Now that I’m back, I thought I’d ease my way back in to blogging with a recap of last week’s events: Monday, April 16th – We launched the AWS Partner Network […]