Author: Jeff Barr

As you may know, AWS CloudTrail records API activity in your AWS account and delivers a log file with the recorded API activity to a designated S3 bucket (see my post, AWS CloudTrail – Capture AWS API Activity, for more info). Earlier this year we announced CloudWatch Logs and gave you the ability to store […]

I’ve got some good news for Amazon WorkSpaces administrators and users. We are introducing new Value bundles, upgrading the existing Standard bundles, and making Office 2013 available in the Plus bundles. This is the most recent in a series of feature releases for WorkSpaces that includes Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA), zero client support, and the ability […]

Today we’re announcing a new AWS Certification for the AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional. As you probably know, DevOps practices increase IT efficiency for your business, allowing you to respond more quickly to your customers by providing stable, secure, and predictable IT environments. As cloud computing becomes moves in to the mainstream, the demand […]

Hue is an open source web user interface for Hadoop. Hue allows technical and non-technical users to take advantage of Hive, Pig, and many of the other tools that are part of the Hadoop and EMR ecosystem. You can think of Hue as the primary user interface to Amazon EMR and the AWS Management Console […]

Today I would like to give you a quick update on the latest AWS certification and to bring you up to date on some of the existing ones. Back in the early days of AWS and cloud computing, questions about security and compliance were fairly commonplace. These days, generally accepted wisdom seems to hold that […]

Amazon Route 53 is a highly available and scalable Domain Name Service. As you probably know, it translates domain names in to numerical IP addresses. This level of indirection allows you to refer to a computer by its name (which usually remains the same for an extended period of time) instead of by its address […]

It is time for a brief update on Amazon Redshift, our fast, easy-to-use, petabyte-scale, cost-effective (as little as $1000 per Terabyte per year) data warehouse service. We have added resource tagging, better query management, enhancements to data load and unload, and 16 new SQL commands and functions. Let’s take a look at each of these […]

If you have been to the first and/or second AWS re:Invent, you know how to prepare and you know how to get the most out of your time in Las Vegas. If this is your first time, you’ll appreciate this Newbie Guide that my colleague Tracy Laxdal has put together! — Jeff; There’s only one […]