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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.

Some Unique Sessions at re:Invent 2018

We recently added three unique breakout sessions to the re:Invent Session Catalog and I want to make sure that you are aware of them. It’s rare for Distinguished Engineers like Peter Vosshall, Principal Engineers like Colm MacCarthaigh, and Directors and VPs responsible for entire AWS services to speak within a three day period. So, you […]

Amazon S3 Block Public Access – Another Layer of Protection for Your Accounts and Buckets

Update (4/27/2023): Amazon S3 now automatically enables S3 Block Public Access and disables S3 access control lists (ACLs) for all new S3 buckets in all AWS Regions. Update (August 2019)– Fresh screen shots and changes to the names of the options. Newly created Amazon S3 buckets and objects are (and always have been) private and […]

New – Train Custom Document Classifiers with Amazon Comprehend

Amazon Comprehend gives you the power to process natural-language text at scale (read my introductory post, Amazon Comprehend – Continuously Trained Natural Language Processing, to learn more). After launching late 2017 with support for English and Spanish, we have added customer-driven features including Asynchronous Batch Operations, Syntax Analysis, support for additional languages (French, German, Italian, […]

AWS GovCloud (US-East) Now Open

September 8, 2021: Amazon Elasticsearch Service has been renamed to Amazon OpenSearch Service. See details. Last year I told you that we were working on AWS GovCloud (US-East), an eastern US companion to the existing AWS GovCloud (US-West) Region that we launched in 2011. The new region is now open and ready to serve the […]

New – Redis 5.0 Compatibility for Amazon ElastiCache

Earlier this year we announced Redis 4.0 compatibility for Amazon ElastiCache. In that post, Randall explained how ElastiCache for Redis clusters can scale to terabytes of memory and millions of reads and writes per second! Other recent improvements to Amazon ElastiCache for Redis include: Read Replica Scaling – Support for adding or removing read replica […]