Author: Jeff Barr

I’m attacking my inbox with a shovel; here are just a few of the things I found within: First off, Rich Lafferty enumerates the most expensive things at Amazon. Fortunately, the $40,000 Super Bowl XL Opus MVP Edition is available for free shipping. There are 3 in stock as I write this, so be sure […]

If you will be coming to the Emerging Technology Conference next week, we’d like to invite you to a special gathering of AWS customers. To register, send  an email to aws@amazon.com . Other important ETech events include Amazon’s Werner Vogel’s talk about Building Scalable Infrastructure, which should go well with Don MacAskill’s threat to Set […]

I’ll be presenting to the New England VB Professionals Group in Waltham on Thursday, April 5th. Hope to see you there! If you’d like to meet on Friday, April 6 I still have some time open. Am planning to fly back out of Hartford, CT so anyone west of the Boston Metro area is welcome […]

March and April is definitely conference season for us. Here are two more upcoming events: On Friday, March 23rd I will be judging the Under the Radar “Why Office 2.0” competition in Santa Clara, California. Registering through that link will entitle you to a $100 VIP discount. On Monday, March 27th I will be speaking […]

We have a new article in our Developer Connection! In Mounting Amazon S3 as a File System in Amazon EC2, AWS developer Bill Donahue shows how to use the S3InfiniDisk product to mount Amazon S3 as a file system in Amazon EC2. Using S3InfiniDisk, data written to a mounted Linux file system is written to […]

On Thursday, April 26th, Amazon Web Services and the Madrona Venture Group will be co-hosting The Start-Up Project in Seattle. Running from 2 to 7 PM, this fast-paced event is designed for entrepreneurs, founders and leaders of start-ups and early-stage companies, and VCs. We’ll have a couple of hours of demos and presentations with plenty […]

AWS user Bill Boebel of Webmail.us will be presenting at the upcoming ISPCON conference in Orlando, Florida. Bill’s talk will cover the use of Amazon S3 to create a successful email archiving service. Here’s the official description: With the advent of utility-based services such as the Amazon Web Services S3 Storage Grid, new applications and […]

Conference season gets underway for the AWS Developer Relations team later this month. We will be speaking at and/or exhibiting at a number of events. Here’s our itinerary: March 19-23, SDWest in Santa Clara, California. AWS developers can get registere here and get a free expo pass (or $300 off of a VIP pass) using […]