Author: Jeff Barr

We’ve added a new bookmarking feature to the AWS Management Console. You can now construct a URL that will open the console with a specific AMI (Amazon Machine Image) or CloudFormation Template selected and ready to launch. EC2 AMI Launch The URL to open up the console with a particular AMI selected looks like this: […]

Our customers have become very adept at using Amazon Elastic MapReduce to chew through vast amounts of data in short order. As a switch from the corporate examples that I usually provide, I’d like to tell you about a slightly more personal one. My son Stephen is working on his PhD in Finance at the […]

I launched my first “production” EC2 instance almost three years ago, on July 15, 2008. For my purposes, production includes hosting my personal blog and writing code for my AWS book, as well as a host for random development projects that I putter around with from time to time. I am happy to report that […]

Our customers are doing all sorts of interesting work on AWS. We’ve been working with them to produce a number of AWS Case Studies so as to better spread the word about how cloud computing and AWS are changing the world. Here are the latest case studies:   European Space Agency – The Data User […]

The newest version of the AWS SDK for Java has a very convenient client-side encryption feature. Once enabled, the SDK will automatically encrypt data before sending it to Amazon S3, and decrypt it before returning it to your application. You have full control of the keys used to encrypt and decrypt your data and the […]

Today we are coupling two popular aspects of Amazon EC2: Cluster computing and Spot Instances! More and more of our customers are finding innovative ways to use EC2 Spot Instances to save up to two-thirds off the On-Demand price. Batch processing, media rendering and transcoding, grid computing, testing, web crawling, and Hadoop-based processing are just […]

The AWS team will be participating in and putting on a number of live events and webinars this month. Here’s a full list. Live events: April 4 – East Bay Java User Group (Oakland, CA). April 5 – SugarCRM Customer and Developer Conference (San Francisco, CA). April 5 – Rochester AWS User Group (Rochester, NY). […]

As I’ve blogged about in the past, we love to listen to our customers, and what we hear from them has a direct and very visible influence on our development process. I can literally watch as the information flows from customer meetings to trip reports to press releases (we write those first, before we build […]