Author: Jeff Barr

We launched Amazon S3 nine years ago as of last week! Since that time we have added dozens of features, expanded across the globe, and reduced the prices for storage and bandwidth multiple times. You, our customers, have trusted us with your mission-critical data and have used S3 in thousands of interesting and unique ways. […]

The Amazon Linux AMI is a supported and maintained Linux image for use on Amazon EC2. We release new versions of the Amazon Linux AMI every six months after a public testing phase that includes one or more Release Candidates. The Release Candidates are announced in the EC2 forum. Launching 2015.03 Today Today we are […]

makes it easy for you to find, buy, and quickly start using a wide variety of software products from developers located all over the world: Open in Germany Today we are making AWS Marketplace available to users of our new region.  If you are using this region you can make use of over 700 products […]

We announced the AWS Managed Service Partner program at last year’s . We created the program in order to help our customers to find Partners who can deliver managed services in the cloud. In order for an APN Partner to become an approved member of this program, the quality of their offering must meet a […]

Let’s take a quick look at what happened in AWS-land last week: Monday, March 16 We announced that the EC2 Container Service is now Available in the EU (Ireland) Region. We published the Second Release Candidate of the Amazon Linux AMI. We updated the AWS SDK for Unity. Tuesday, March 17 The announced some Planned […]

My colleague Jed Sundwall wrote the guest post below to show you how one of the newest AWS Public Data Sets is being put to use. — Jeff; You can now access over 85,000 Landsat 8  scenes through our newest Public Data Set: Landsat on AWS. The scenes are all available in the landsat-pds bucket […]

Last year I told you about Larger and Faster EBS Volumes and asked you to stay tuned for availability. Starting today you can create Provisioned IOPS (SSD) volumes that store up to 16 TB (terabytes) and process up to 20,000 IOPS, with a maximum throughput of 320 MBps (megabytes per second). You can also create […]

makes it easy for you to set up, operate, and scale a MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQL Server, or Oracle relational database in the cloud. Today we are adding support for version 9.4.1 of PostgreSQL to RDS. Among other features, this version allows you to store JSON data in a compact, decomposed binary format known as jsonb. […]

take a quick look at what happened in AWS-land last week: Monday, March 9 The GitLab Blog talked about Moving All Your Data, 9 TB Edition. A post on the Cloudyn Blog discussed AWS’ New Powerful C4 Instance and The Complete EC2 Families Guide. A post on the CB Insights Blog asked and answered How […]

converts (transcodes) media (video and audio) files into renditions optimized for playback on desktops, mobile devices, tablets, and televisions. Today, we are making even more useful! We’ve added support for generating NTSC outputs (the television standard used in the United States and Canada), and PAL outputs (the standard used in most other countries), and we […]