Author: Jeff Barr

Amazon SimpleDB continues to expand, with new tools, tutorials, and success stories. We just published a new case study on Adaptive Blue’s new Glue product. Taking the form of a Firefox plug-in, Glue allows users to share feedback with friends on books, music, movies, restaurants, gadgets, stocks and other everyday things around the web. In […]

We’ve added some important new community features to our Public Data Sets and we’ve also added some new and intriguing data to our collection. I’m writing this post to bring you up to date on this unique AWS feature and thought I would also show you how to instantiate and use an actual public data […]

Earlier this year I talked about our partnership with IBM and their commitment to the creation of licensing models that are a good match for dynamic cloud-computing environments. At that time we released a set of development AMIs (Amazon Machine Images), giving you the ability to create applications using IBM products such as DB2, WebSphere […]

Update: You can now make this purchase using the AWS Management Console. Click here to learn more. I thought that it would be worthwhile to outline the steps needed to purchase an EC2 Reserved Instance. Here’s what you need to do: Choose a Region. Choose an Availability Zone. Locate the Reserved Instance offering. Make the […]

I wrote about the exciting and economical EC2 Reserved Instances just a few weeks ago. The response to that announcement has been really good, with positive feedback from our customers who are enjoying this new option. Today I am happy to let you know that you can now reserve EC2 instances in our European (EU) […]

There are a number of webinars scheduled over the next several weeks, and the purpose of this post is to make certain everyone is aware of the various options and opportunities: Thursday, April 16 at 9:00am PST Cloud for Large Enterprise — Where to Start Hear Capgemini put AWS and cloud computing in context for […]

I am really excited to release our white paper on how to create HIPAA-compliant information processing systems in the Cloud. The paper focuses on the HIPAA sections: The Privacy Rule and The Security Rule, and how to encrypt and protect your data in the AWS cloud. White paper is now available on AWS website for […]

The Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS) launched over three years ago and is the quiet workhorse behind many of the highly scalable applications running on Amazon EC2. Today we are rolling out some important new features for Amazon SQS including availability from within our EU region, control of access permissions, and more control over […]