Author: Jeff Barr

Building world-class games is a very difficult, time-consuming, and expensive process. The audience is incredibly demanding. They want engaging, social play that spans a wide variety of desktop, console, and mobile platforms. Due to the long lead time inherent in the game development and distribution process, the success or failure of the game can often […]

Let’s take a quick look at what happened in AWS-land last week: Monday February 1 We launched the AWS Answers site. The Amazon Mobile App Distribution Blog showed you how to Test Your App’s Compatibility with Android 6.0 Using Amazon’s App Testing Service (ATS). The AWS DevOps Blog explored how to Continue Rolling Back an […]

September 8, 2021: Amazon Elasticsearch Service has been renamed to Amazon OpenSearch Service. See details. Let’s take a quick look at what happened in AWS-land last week: Monday January 25 We announced AWS Marketplace Support for the Asia Pacific (Seoul) Region. We announced that AWS CloudFormation Now Includes an Override for Failed Update Rollbacks. The […]

My colleague Mike Stroh is part of our sales training team. He wrote the guest post below to introduce you to our newest AWS training courses. — Jeff; We routinely tweak our 3-day AWS technical training courses to keep pace with AWS platform updates, incorporate learner feedback, and the latest best practices. Today I want […]

Regular readers of this blog will know that I am a huge fan of Amazon WorkSpaces. In fact, after checking my calendar, I verified that every blog post I have written in the last 10 months has been done from within my WorkSpace. Regardless of my location—office, home, or hotel room—performance, availability, and functionality have […]

In the early days of AWS, customers were happy to simply learn about the cloud and its benefits. As they started to learn more, the conversation shifted. It went from “what is the cloud” to “what kinds of security does the cloud offer” to “”how can I use the cloud” over the course of just […]

For Episode 134 of the AWS podcast, I spoke with Bob Rogers, PhD, Chief Data Scientist for Big Data Solutions at Intel Corporation. We talked about how Bob entered the field of data science, how to get value from data science projects, and some misconceptions around big data. You can listen to the podcast to […]

My colleague Jon Fritz wrote the blog post below to introduce you to some new features of Amazon EMR. — Jeff; Today we are announcing Amazon EMR release 4.3.0, which adds support for Apache Hadoop 2.7.1, Apache Spark 1.6.0, Ganglia 3.7.2, and a new sandbox release for Presto (0.130). We have also enhanced our maximizeResourceAllocation […]