Author: Jeff Barr

A few months ago I told you that we were planning to support Oracle Database 11g (Release 2) via the Relational Database Service (RDS). That support is now ready to go, and you can start launching Database Instances today. We’ve set this up so that you have lots of choices and plenty of flexibility to […]

We have updated the AWS Security White Paper and we’ve created a new Risk and Compliance White Paper.  Both are available now. The AWS Security White Paper describes our physical and operational security principles and practices. It includes a description of the shared responsibility model, a summary of our control environment, a review of secure […]

You can now store your business and application metrics in Amazon CloudWatch. You can view graphs, set alarms, and initiate automated actions based on these metrics, just as you can for the metrics that CloudWatch already stores for your AWS resources. This new custom metrics feature can be used in two different ways: You can […]

I thought it would be fun to show the new CloudWatch User-Defined metrics in action so I spent a couple of hours cooking up a little example. I launched an EC2 Micro instance, installed PHP, Emacs, the MySQL development package, and the AWS SDK for PHP. The first step is to include the master file […]

The AWS SDK for Android and the AWS SDK for iOS now support even more AWS services: Amazon EC2 Amazon CloudWatch Amazon Simple Email Service Elastic Load Balancing Auto Scaling The SDKs already support Amazon S3, Amazon SimpleDB, Amazon Simple Queue Service, and Amazon SNS. With the added services, you can now add the following […]

We’ve added a second container type to AWS Elastic Beanstalk. Version 7 of Apache Tomcat is now available for use and is the default for all new environments (you can still choose version 6 if you’d like). Tomcat 7 includes functional improvements such as support for the latest versions of a number of standards including […]

The AWS Management Console now includes support for Identity and Access Management (IAM). You can create and manage users, groups, and policies with a couple of mouse clicks. Read on to learn more about this new feature, or read my other post to learn more about IAM. There’s a new IAM tab on the AWS […]

Our customers use AWS in many creative and innovative ways, continuously introducing new use cases and driving us to solve unexpected and complex problems. We are constantly improving our capabilities to make sure that we support a very wide variety of use cases and access patterns. In particular, we want to make sure that developers […]