Author: Jeff Barr

I’ve got some really important news about our AWS Premium Support offering. We’ve added new Bronze and Platinum plans, reduced our prices, and increased our responsiveness. New Support Plans We are introducing two new support plans. The new Bronze plan is aimed at individual developers and costs just $49 per month. The new Platinum plan […]

The new AWS Policy Generator simplifies the process of creating policy documents for the Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS), Amazon S3, the Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS), and AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM). You begin by selecting the type of policy that you’d like to create. I’ll create an IAM policy for this post. […]

On January 27, 2010, Deepak Singh, PhD (Senior Business Development Director for AWS and author of the Business, Bytes, Genes, and Molecules blog) will discuss Analytics in the Cloud in a live webinar. Deepak will explain how businesses of any size can rapidly and cost-effectively analyze data sets of any size. The webinar is free […]

On Wednesday, January 12th we will be conducting an interactive “office hours” session at 9:00 AM PST. The topic will be PHP and how you can use it with AWS. You’ll get to chat with me (Jeff Barr) and AWS Development Engineer Ryan Parman. We’ll do some live demos and take as many questions as […]

You can now use the AWS Import/Export service to import and export data into and out of Amazon S3 buckets in the Asia Pacific (Singapore) Region via portable storage devices with eSATA USB 2.0, and SATA interfaces. You can ship us a device loaded with data and we’ll copy it to the S3 bucket of […]

We’ve made some improvements to the AWS Portal to make it easier for you to find and access the information that you need to build even more AWS-powered applications. We’ve added content in several new languages, improved the search features, revamped the discussion forums, and added a number of features to the AWS resource catalogs […]

You can now purchase Relational Database Service Reserved DB Instances using the AWS Management Console. Reserved DB Instances allow you to reduce your costs if you plan to run your database for all or most of a one or three year term. Here’s a tour. There’s a new item Reserved DB Instance item in the […]

Felix Geisendrfer of Debuggable wrote in to tell me about Transloadit. He told me that they now support real-time video encoding using a number of Amazon EC2 instances. Whereas prior transcoding solutions waited for the entire video to be uploaded, Transloadit runs the encoding process directly on the incoming data stream, using the popular node.js […]