Author: Jeff Barr

I wrote my first post for this blog back in 2004, and have published over 2,700 more since then, including 52 last month! Given the ever-increasing pace of AWS innovation, and the amount of cool stuff that we have to share with you, we are expanding our blogging team. Please give a warm welcome to […]

When I first wrote about Amazon QuickSight in 2015 (Amazon QuickSight – Fast & Easy to Use Business Intelligence for Big Data at 1/10th the Cost of Traditional Solutions), I mentioned that we would make the service available in Standard and Enterprise Editions. Enterprise Edition We launched the Standard Edition of Amazon QuickSight last month. […]

Despite stiff competition from many other AWS services, Amazon Aurora is still the fastest-growing service in AWS history! Our customers love the speed, performance, and availability. They are making great use of the MySQL compatible side of Aurora today, and are looking forward to using the PostgreSQL compatible side in the future (read Amazon Aurora […]

Last week we launched our 15th AWS Region and today we are launching our 16th. We have expanded the AWS footprint into the United Kingdom with a new Region in London, our third in Europe. AWS customers can use the new London Region to better serve end-users in the United Kingdom and can also use […]

The AWS office in Dubai, UAE will open on January 1, 2017. We’ve been working with the Dubai Investment Development Agency (Dubai FDI) to launch the office, and plan to support startups, government institutions, and some of the Middle East’s historic and most established enterprises as they make the transition to the AWS Cloud. Resources […]

Large-scale, enterprise data centers are generally run “by the book.” Policies, best practices, and operational procedures are developed, refined, captured, and codified, as part of responsible IT management, often with an eye toward the ITIL® model. Ideally, all infrastructure improvements, configuration changes, and provisioning requests are handled in a process-oriented fashion that serves to impose […]

We are growing the AWS footprint once again. Our new Canada (Central) Region is now available and you can start using it today. AWS customers in Canada and the northern parts of the United States have fast, low-latency access to the suite of AWS infrastructure services. The Details The new Canada (Central) Region supports Amazon […]

My colleague Gene Farrell wrote the guest post below to tell you how the original vision for Amazon AppStream evolved in the face of customer feedback. — Jeff; At AWS, helping our customers solve problems and serve their customers with technology is our mission. It drives our thinking, and it’s at the center of how […]