Author: Jeff Barr

Over the summer months, we’d like to share a few stories from startups around the world: what are they working on and how they are using the cloud to get things done. Today, we’re profiling Filter Squad from Perth, Australia!   In one of Werner Vogels‘ many travels through Australia this summer, he tweeted about […]

In honor of today’s Facebook Developer Conference, I’d like to recognize the success of our existing Facebook app developers and invite even more developers to kick-start their next Facebook app project with Amazon Web Services. Quick Numbers We crunched some numbers and found out that 70% of the 50 most popular Facebook apps leverage one […]

Within Amazon, we often use the phrase “drinking our own champagne” to describe our practice of using our own products and services to prove them out under actual working conditions. We build products that we can use ourselves. We believe in them. Amazon’s Corporate IT recently wrapped up an important project and they have just […]

Do you use EC2 Spot Instances in your application? Do you understand how they work and how they can save you a lot of money? If you answered no to any of these questions, then you are behind the times and you need to catch up. I’m dead-serious. The scientific community was quick to recognize […]

Over the summer months, we’d like to share a few stories from startups around the world: what are they working on and how they are using the cloud to get things done. Today I’m speaking to Jonathan and Thomas, two of the creators of Scalarium, from Berlin, Germany!   R: Hi guys, could you briefly describe […]

We’ve made two important updates to Amazon RDS for Oracle Database: A new minor version (containing some critical security fixes) is now available. Additional access privileges are now available (via the new minor version) to applications. New Minor VersionOracle Database version 11.2.0.2.v3 is now available. Oracle recommends an immediate upgrade to this version due to […]

  Over the summer months, we’d like to share a few stories from startups around the world: what are they working on and how they are using the cloud to get things done. Today, we’re profiling ShowNearby, from Singapore!   About ShowNearby ShowNearby is a leading location-based service in Singapore and an early adopter of […]

You can now run Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 on the EC2 Cluster Compute and Cluster GPU instances using new Windows 2008 R2 and Windows 2008 R2 SQL Server AMIs. To reiterate, here are the specs for these compute-intensive instance types: Cluster Compute Quadruple Extra Large: 23 GB of memory 33.5 EC2 Compute Units (2 […]