Author: Jeff Barr

A number of AWS users have been using Amazon EC2 to solve a variety of computationally intensive problems. Here’s a sampling: Atbrox and Lingit use Elastic MapReduce to build data sets that help individuals with dyslexia to improve their reading and writing skills. Systems integrator Cycle Computing helps Varian to run compute-intensive Monte Carlo simulations. […]

We’ve added two new features to the Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) to make it more powerful and easier to use. Here’s the scoop: IP Address Control – You can now assign the IP address of your choice to each of the EC2 instances that you launch in your Virtual Private Cloud. The address must […]

The Casual Connect Conference will be held in Seattle later this month. The conference will start on July 20th and will end on the 22nd. We’ve got some big plans for this conference: The AWS team will have a booth on the show floor. Be sure to stop by and to say hello. We’ll have […]

The AWS Marketing Team recently moved into a shiny new building in Seattle’s South Lake Union area. We’d like to spiff up and personalize our space, and thought that our AWS users and fans could help us to do so! We’ve got some really nice AWS stickers that we can trade for any or all […]

Update August 22, 2011: We are aware of the existence of a tool that scans S3 looking for buckets that allow anonymous users READ permission. Bucket level READ permissions only allow an user to list the objects within a bucket. However, users with the ability to list could probe into the bucket looking for unprotected […]

We’ve added some very handy new functionality to the RDS tab of the AWS Management Console. Here’s a quick tour. First, you can create a new DB Instance from any of your existing snapshots. You can click this button: Or you can right-click on one of your snapshots:   After you provide the parameters, Amazon […]

We want to make it easier and more economical for you to build fault-tolerant, highly-scalable applications using the Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS). Effective July 1st, 2010, your first 100,000 requests to SQS each month will incur no usage charges. We’ll also provide you with 1 GB per month of outbound data transfer at no […]

By popular demand, the Relational Database Service (RDS) now supports SSL encrypted connections! We now generate an SSL certificate for each DB Instance. If you need a certificate for an existing instance you’ll need to reboot it using the AWS Management Console, the RDS command-line tools, or the RDS APIs. Here are a few things […]