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Jeff Barr

Author: Jeff Barr

Jeff Barr is Chief Evangelist for AWS. He started this blog in 2004 and has been writing posts just about non-stop ever since.

Amazon Elastic MapReduce – Now Even Stretchier!

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 […]

AWS Office Hours – November 10, 2010

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 […]

Upcoming AWS Events in Asia

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 […]

AWS Elastic Load Balancing: Support for SSL Termination

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 […]

AWS Management Console Now Supports Amazon SNS

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 […]