Author: Jeff Barr

Imagine if you need to prepare the internet infrastructure needed to support a live event that: Will host a streaming video, Will start at a time that you can’t control, Will be of an unknown duration, May attract a worldwide audience, and Happens once in a blue moon. You can’t buy the infrastructure, since you’ll […]

Update (June 15, 2018) – Since the launch of this service almost a decade ago, we have launched many other data transfer services that may be easier for you to use including AWS Snowball, AWS Snowball Edge, AWS Snowmobile, and AWS Direct Connect. Many years ago, professor Andy Tanenbaum wrote the following: Never underestimate the […]

The Amazon SimpleDB team just cranked out a bunch of new features for the Select function, bumped up the maximum size of a batch of Select results, and also deprecated the old Query functions and the non-SSL interface. All of this new functionality is available through the 2009-04-15 version of the SimpleDB WSDL file. You […]

We are working to make it even easier for you to build sophisticated, scalable, and robust web applications using AWS. As soon as you launch some EC2 instances, you want visibility into resource utilization and overall performance. You want your application to be able to scale on demand based on traffic and system load. You […]

Marc from Quetzall sent me a note about their new CloudCache product. CloudCache is a fast, lightweight key-value caching system designed for use within the cloud. Each key can optionally have an associated TTL (time to live). Once the TTL is reached the key and the associated value are removed from the cache. Running on […]

Mike from Cirrhus9 just told me that they’ll be hosting a Cloud Adoption Webinar on the 28th of May. In the webinar you will learn about the factors which influence cloud adoption rates and how a company’s culture can affect the adoption curve. You’ll also get to hear success stories of successful migrations of infrastructure […]

We recently announced the release of Amazon Simple Pay Subscriptions. You can use this product to charge your customers on a recurring basis after a single authorization from the customer. If you offer digital content subscriptions, collect membership dues on a periodic basis, or provide premium services on your website, this service is for you. […]

.notyet20090430 { background-color:yellow; } We just added a handy new request logging feature to Amazon CloudFront. One line is written to a log file each time an object is accessed via CloudFront. This data (object name, access point, time of access, and so forth) can be used to generate usage reports using reporting tools. Once […]