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Jeff Barr

Author: Jeff Barr

Jeff Barr is Chief Evangelist for AWS. He started this blog in 2004 and has been writing posts just about non-stop ever since.

AWS Summer Startups: Classle

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 Classle, from Chennai, India! I recently read Mark Susters blog on Avoiding Monoculture – which is why Im happy to share with […]

Introducing: VC Judges for AWS Startup Challenge

We’re very excited to announce this year’s AWS Start-up Challenge VC judges: Accel Partners, Andreessen Horowitz (A16Z), Draper Fisher Jurvetson (DFJ), Madrona Venture Group,  NEA, and Sequoia ! Representatives from all these firms will be present at our final event in California, where our AWS executive team will meet and select one global, grand prize winner. All […]

AWS Events for September 2011

Here’s what we are doing this month in AWS-land: Webinars: September 7 – Introducing AWS GovCloud (US) – 1:00 PM EST September 13 – Microsoft License Mobility for Windows Server Applications on the AWS Cloud – 9:00 AM PST September 20 – Provide a details of EC2 & EBS – 5:00 PM September 27 – […]

New – AWS Toolkit for Visual Studio

If you are the kind of developer who likes to live in your IDE, you’ll really appreciate the new AWS Toolkit for Visual Studio. We’ve provided you with enough power and control to allow you to develop, test, deploy, and maintain your applications without leaving Visual Studio. The toolkit is a small (3.5 MB) download […]

AWS Direct Connect Heads West

We introduced AWS Direct Connect last month and invited AWS users with a need for a dedicated network connection to the US East (Northern Virginia) Region to give it a try. The service is geared for those who have big data transfer requirements or are looking for more consistent network performance when accessing the cloud. […]