Author: Jeff Barr

We’ve received great feedback from customers on the recent AWS price reductions. I’ve personally received a number of great stories from customers who are using AWS to reduce the cost of running their business. We’ve written up two of these recent cost savings stories as AWS case studies. foursquare Labs, Inc. and Global Blue may […]

The Amazon Web Services are now available in an ever-expanding series of locations. You’ve asked us to make it easier to build applications that span multiple AWS regions and we are happy to oblige. Today I’m pleased to announce that Amazon Route 53 is making available the same latency based routing technology that powers Amazon […]

A few days ago we launched a simple, yet very important new feature on our AWS website: the self-service AWS AMI catalog. As you know, AMIs are disk images that contain a pre-configured operating system and virtual application software, and they serve as the required base to launch an EC2 instance. Before this change in […]

I’m pleased to be able to tell you that AWS Elastic Beanstalk now supports PHP and Git deployment. Elastic Beanstalk and PHPAWS Elastic Beanstalk makes it easy for you to quickly deploy and manage applications in the AWS cloud. You simply upload your application, and Elastic Beanstalk automatically handles all of the details associated with […]

We held our first-ever AWS Summit in New York in early 2011 (I snapped the picture at right before the audience filed in for the keynote). Due to the great response we received the first time, we’re doing it again, this time bigger, louder, and with even more content. After registering, you’ll be able to […]

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 […]