Author: Jeff Barr

Earlier this year I told you about the AWS Nitro System and promised you that it would allow us to “deliver new instance types more quickly than ever in the months to come.” Since I made that promise we have launched memory-intensive R5 and R5d instances, high frequency z1d instances, burstable T3 instances, high memory […]

It is safe to say that is one of the most useful and central features of AWS. Our customers configure their VPCs in a wide variety of ways, and take advantage of numerous connectivity options and gateways including (via Direct Connect Gateways), NAT Gateways, Internet Gateways, Egress-Only Internet Gateways, VPC Peering, AWS Managed VPN Connections, […]

As promised in Welcome to AWS re:Invent 2018, here’s a summary of the launches and previews from Midnight Madness: Launches Here are detailed blog posts & whats new pages for last night’s launches: AWS RoboMaker – Develop, Test, Deploy, and Manage Intelligent Robotics Apps. AWS DataSync – Automated and Accelerated Data Transfer. AWS Transfer for […]

has been around for over 12.5 years, stores trillions of objects, and processes millions of requests for them every second. Our customers count on S3 to support their backup & recovery, data archiving, data lake, big data analytics, hybrid cloud storage, cloud-native storage, and disaster recovery needs. Starting from the initial one-size-fits-all Standard storage class, […]

Many organizations use SFTP (Secure File Transfer Protocol) as part of long-established data processing and partner integration workflows. While it would be easy to dismiss these systems as “legacy,” the reality is that they serve a useful purpose and will continue to do so for quite some time. We want to help our customers to […]

Many AWS customers have told us that they need to move large amounts of data into and out of the . Their use cases include: Migration – Some customers have large data sets that are in a constant state of flux. Their is no natural break or stopping point that they can use to effect […]

I have wanted to build a robot for decades and now I have my chance! To me, the big challenge has always been the sheer number of different parts that need to connect and interoperate. Complex hardware, software, sensors, communication systems, and a “robot brain” must all work together in order for the robot to […]

It is Sunday night and 2018 is underway. I hope that you are as excited as I am to be able to learn about our latest and greatest services and features! A New Approach After speaking to attendees at last year’s re:Invent, looking at data, and listening to lots of comments from readers, we decided […]

As I have discussed in the past, our customers use multiple AWS accounts for many different reasons. Some of them use accounts to create administrative and billing boundaries; others use them to control the blast radius around any mistakes that they make. Even though all of this isolation is a net positive for our customers, […]

Update 11/26/18 — This is now available. I never get tired of seeing customer-driven innovation in action! When AWS customers told us that they needed an easy way to move petabytes of data in and out of AWS, we responded with the . Later, when they told us that they wanted to do some local […]