Author: Jeff Barr

I spent yesterday morning working in a coffee shop while waiting to have an informal discussion with a candidate for an open position. From my vantage point in the corner I was able to watch the shop’s “processing pipeline” in action. There were three queues and three types of processing! The customers were waiting to […]

As of the end of the second quarter of 2011, Amazon S3 holds more than 449 billion objects and processes up to 290,000 requests per second for them at peak times. Here’s a chart: No matter how you look at it, that’s a lot of objects! Here are a few ways to put it into […]

Next week (July 27th to be precise) I will be speaking at a special event in Hollywood, California. Titled Enabling Content Workflows in the Cloud, the event is sponsored by AWS and Aspera. I’ll be presenting, as willl Michelle Munson (President, CEO, and co-founder of Aspera). If you work in media, digital media, or entertainment […]

You can now use the Amazon Simple Email Service to send email message that include attachments such as images or documents. There are no new “attachment” APIs. Instead, you simply use the existing SendRawEmail function to send a message that includes one or more MIME parts. Each part of the message must be of a […]

Christie from Jinfonet emailed to tell me about their newest video, Cloud Reporting from Amazon EC2: Per their recent press release, their JReport product can be installed on one or more EC2 instances with linear scaling as additional instances are added. A clustered installation of JReport can include hundreds of EC2 nodes and is able […]

Here’s what we have in store for the month of July (these are late; I was on vacation): Webinars: July 13 – AWS Office Hours: Development and Test – 9:00 AM PST July 21 – Introduction to Amazon Web Services – 9:00 AM PST July 25 – Predicting Costs on Amazon Web Services – 9:00 […]

Ruby is a wonderful programming language. Optimized for ‘developer joy’, it is an object oriented playground for building simple domain specific languages, orchestration tools, and most famously, web applications. In many ways, the Ruby language and Amazon cloud services such as EC2 and S3 have similar goals: to help developers and businesses build innovative products without […]

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 Sportaneous from New York City! The StoryI first learned about Sportaneous after reading about NYC Big Apps, an application contest […]