Author: Jeff Barr

Yesterday morning we received an email from the folks behind Justin.TV. They were preparing for a big splash at the E3 show and wanted to make sure that we were in a position to handle the increased load. We assured them that we were. Justin and his posse visited E3 and did a live broadcast […]

My friends Adam Rifkin and Joyce Park are the co-founders of Renkoo. Renkoo simplifies the process of getting together with a bunch of friends for an event or simply for a tasty beverage or two. Last month Adam told me that they were planning to launch a Facebook application and that they wanted to host […]

As of this morning, we have cleared the Amazon EC2 waiting list! Everyone on the list with a valid payment method in their account and acccess to Amazon S3 has been enabled for EC2. We are continuing to add capacity and can now accomodate some additional beta signups. Simply create your AWS account, sign up […]

Paul Dowman created something really useful for the Ruby on Rails Community: a Pre-configured Ruby On Rails Stack AMI that “just simply works”. Public AMIs are pre-packaged, pre-configured, compressed file-system blobs that are stored on Amazon S3 which can be instantiated by any Amazon EC2 user. Ruby on Rails cuts down development time significantly due […]

Note: The Simple Monthly Calculator described in this post, while still functional, has been superseded by the newer and more powerful set of AWS TCO Calculators. — Jeff; We created a JavaScript-based tool that allows you to calculate your monthly cost for using Amazon S3, Amazon EC2, and Amazon SQS. This tool incorporates the latest […]

Just a quick post to act as a heads up on two additions to the AWS Developer Resource Center. First, I recently interviewed Doug Kaye, who is CTO of GigaVox Media, about their experience with Amazon Simple Queue Service (aka Amazon SQS). The interview runs approximately 9 minutes, and offers some insight by Doug. I […]

The first-ever AWS Developer Chat in Second Life was a big success and a whole lot of fun to boot. We had about 20 people (avatars) in attendance and we talked about Amazon S3, EC2, and all kinds of other related subjects. Here’s a picture taken by my friend Betsy Weber (who has a really […]

As more and more people now move their production apps on Amazon S3, we are getting emails from CEOs and CTOs about their success and how Amazon S3 helped them sleep better at night. Last week I blogged about live-blogging backed by Amazon S3 and their 2-hour-$10-scaling app. This week its Pictogame. As Louis Choquel, […]