Author: Jeff Barr

We’ve got some interesting events and webinars planned for May of 2011. Here’s the most recent list: Live Events, Conferences, and Conference Talks: May 9: AWS 101 for the Government – Herndon, Virginia May 10-11: Streaming Media East – New York City, NY (Javitz Convention Center), including a talk from Tal Saraf (GM of Amazon […]

We have updated the AWS Management Console with support for three important CloudFront features: The ability to set a custom origin for a CloudFront distribution (docs). The option to make a distribution accessible solely via HTTPS (docs). The ability to set a default root object (docs). With this update, functionality that was previously available only […]

We have just announced our first set of AWS training classes. Each session will be held in Seattle and will run for four full days. The classes are designed for developers with experience building Java applications and there will be coding exercises in class. Attendance is limited to 20 students per session and attendees are […]

Our customers have been asking us for additional in-depth knowledge so that they can architect, develop, secure, and deploy all types of AWS applications. Our new AWS Summit events will take place in New York (June 10), London (June 14), and San Francisco (June 21). Each event will include a keynote from Amazon CTO Werner […]

You can now stream live audio or video through AWS using the Adobe Flash Media Server using a cost-effective pay-as-you-go model that makes uses of Amazon EC2, Amazon CloudFront, and Amazon Route 53, all configured and launched via a single CloudFormation template. We’ve used AWS CloudFormation to make the signup and setup process as simple […]

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 […]