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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.

AWS re:Inforce 2019 – Security, Identity, and Compliance

AWS re:Inforce, our new conference dedicated to cloud security, opens in Boston on June 25th. We’re expecting about 8,000 attendees, making this bigger than the first re:Invent! Just like re:Invent, re:Inforce is a learning conference for builders. With over 300 breakout sessions (intermediate, advanced, and expert) spanning four tracks and a virtual Capture The Flag […]

In the Works – AWS Region in Indonesia

Last year we launched two new AWS Regions—a second GovCloud Region in the United States, and our first Nordic Region in Sweden—and we announced that we are working on regions in Cape Town, South Africa the Middle East (Bahrain), and Milan, Italy. Jakarta in the Future Today, I am happy to announce that we are […]

New – Advanced Request Routing for AWS Application Load Balancers

AWS Application Load Balancers have been around since the summer of 2016! They support content-based routing, work well for serverless & container-based applications, and are highly scalable. Many AWS customers are using the existing host and path-based routing to power their HTTP and HTTPS applications, while also taking advantage of other ALB features such as […]

New – Concurrency Scaling for Amazon Redshift – Peak Performance at All Times

Amazon Redshift is a data warehouse that can expand to exabyte-scale. Today, tens of thousands of AWS customers (including NTT DOCOMO, Finra, and Johnson & Johnson) use Redshift to run mission-critical BI dashboards, analyze real-time streaming data, and run predictive analytics jobs. A challenge arises when the number of concurrent queries grows at peak times. […]