Author: Jeff Barr

We launched the Relational Database Service in the US less than six months ago. Since then, developers have been putting RDS through its paces.They’ve quickly become accustomed to the ease with which they can create a new DB Instance, put it to use, manage backup and recovery, and to scale data storage and processing power […]

In January I wrote about the availability of a conceptual whitepaper describing various scenarios for using Windows ADFS to federate with services running on Amazon EC2 and mentioned that a step-by-step guide was forthcoming. I’m very pleased to announce that the guide is now finished and available for download. To give you a flavor for […]

When you launch an Amazon Elastic MapReduce job flow, the Hadoop job is run on a a generic AMI that we supply. Until now, there’s been  no easy way to customize the image by modifying configuration files or installing additional software. By popular demand, we now support bootstrap actions for each Elastic MapReduce job flow. […]

Amazon EC2’s Elastic Load Balancing feature just became a bit more powerful. Up until now each load balancer had the freedom to forward each incoming HTTP or TCP request to any of the EC2 instances under its purview. This resulted in a reasonably even load on each instance, but it also meant that each instance […]

Today I’d like to tell you about our newest service, the Amazon Simple Notification Service. We want to make it even easier for developers to build highly functional and architecturally complex applications on AWS. It turns out that applications of this type can often benefit from a publish/subscribe messaging paradigm. In such a system, publishers […]

A couple of members of the AWS Developer Support team put together the following tips and tricks to help you get the most from the Elastic Load Balancer. — Jeff; Are you thinking about using Amazon EC2 with Elastic Load Balancing, but want to make sure you set it up right the first time? Are […]

Update (December 2019) – A lot can happen in less than a decade and quantum computing is now a reality! You can now use Amazon Braket to Get Started with Quantum Computing. — Jeff; We’ve had more than our fair share of technical challenges along the way, but the time is right for me to […]

Here’s some information on some AWS events coming up in April, all on the East Coast of the US: I will be speaking at the Rochester AWS User Group at 6:00 PM on Monday, April 5th. My talk will cover some of the latest AWS developments including the Virtual Private Cloud and the Relational Database […]