Author: Jeff Barr

We will stop accepting entries for the 2010 AWS Start-Up Challenge at midnight PST on October 31, 2010. I was lucky enough to be chosen to be one of the judges and I can’t wait to start reviewing the submissions. There are some great prizes (topping out at $50,000 in cash and another $50,000 in […]

Our customers have used Amazon Elastic MapReduce to process very large-scale data sets using an array of Amazon EC2 instances. One such customer, Seattle’s Razorfish, was able to side-step the need for a capital investment of over $500K while also speeding up their daily processing cycle (read more in our Razorfish case study). Our implementation […]

Ho hum – another web site (pictured at right) running on Amazon EC2. No big deal, right? Actually, it is a pretty big deal. Take look at the top left of the site. What does it say? An Official Website of the United States Government A number of US Government regulations, including an important one […]

We really enjoy talking to our users and learning from them. Next month we’re going to hold an interactive online Q&A session to give you the chance to ask technical and business questions. The first session will focus on Amazon EC2 and will take place at 9 AM PST on November 10, 2010. We’ll be […]

Interest for AWS is constantly growing in the APAC region, therefore I want to share with you some upcoming events in Asia. Oct 19th, New Delhi, India, 5:45pm-10:00pm: AWS Cloud Computing event at Hyatt Regency Delhi – Bhikaiji Cama Place (registration closed). Oct 20th, Mumbai, India, 5:45pm-10:00pm: AWS Cloud Computing event at The Leela Kempinski […]

You can now create a highly scalable, load-balanced web site using multiple Amazon EC2 instances, and you can easily arrange for the entire HTTPS encryption and decryption process (generally known as SSL termination) to be handled by an Elastic Load Balancer. Your users can benefit from encrypted communication with very little operational overhead or administrative […]

The AWS Management Console now provides full support for the Amazon Simple Notification Service. You can create and subscribe to topics, and you can publish notifications to topics. You can see all of your topics and your subscriptions at a glance, and you have full control of the permissions on each of your topics. Let’s […]

We introduced the DB Engine Version Management feature earlier this year to give you control over the version of MySQL running in each of your DB Instances. You can now access this feature from the AWS Management Console. You can create a new DB Instance using any supported version of MySQL: You can also upgrade […]