Author: Jeff Barr

  You no longer need to build your own compute cluster in order to tackle your High Performance Computing (HPC) projects. By launching cloud-based compute instances on an as-needed basis, you can avoid waiting in lengthy queues for limited access to shared resources. We’ve pushed the bounds of cloud-based HPC in the past with the […]

We have just opened up another AWS Region! This one is located in the Pacific Northwest area of the United States, in the beautiful state of Oregon, and offers low-cost, low-latency access to our services from the Western portion of the US. Were always trying to provide you with services at the lowest possible price. […]

Here’s what we have in store for November: Webinars: November 1 – Provide details of CloudFormation – 5:00 PM November 9 – Provide details of Virtual Private Cloud – 5:00 PM November 16 – Provide details of Relational Database Services – 5:00 PM November 17 – Amazon Simple Email Service Management Console – 10:00 AM […]

Heres a quick quiz: What does a social gaming site for young women have in common with a cancer research app? Not sure? Then how about this: What does a mobile video app have in common with a car sharing service? Still at a loss? Fear not – we have uncovered the answer after weeks […]

Today we are adding another transport protocol to the Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS). You can now subscribe a US phone number to an SNS topic. After the subscription has been confirmed, notifications sent to the topic will be delivered to the phone as an SMS message. SMS (also known as Short Message Service) is […]

As you might already know, you can enable AWS Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA for short) for your AWS account and your Identity and Access Management (IAM) users to provide an additional level of security. Once you have enabled MFA for an account or IAM user, you need to enter an authentication code in addition to your […]

Update March 18, 2021 – Please see our latest whitepaper: Disaster Recovery of Workloads on AWS: Recovery in the Cloud. You can also view our recovery in the cloud webinar here. Disaster recovery (DR) is one of most important use cases that we hear from our customers. Having your own DR site in the cloud […]

The Amazon Simple Email Service gives you a simple and cost-effective way to send any volume of bulk or transactional email. We send millions of emails on behalf of thousands of Amazon SES customers each and every day. You can now access Amazon SES through the AWS Management Console. The new SES tab provides you […]