Author: Jeff Barr

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 […]

Early in my career I worked for several companies that developed and shipped (on actual tapes) packaged software. Back in those pre-Internet days, marketing, sales, and distribution were all done on a country-by-country basis. This often involved setting up a field office and hiring local staff, both of which were expensive, time-consuming, and somewhat speculative. […]

Let’s take a quick look at what happened in AWS-land last week: Monday January 18 We announced that Amazon Wind Farm Fowler Ridge is Now Live. We announced a GxP Compliance Resource for AWS. The AWS DevOps Blog showed you how to Speed Template Sharing with an AWS CloudFormation Designer URL. Botmetric showed how New […]

As people across the Northeastern United States are stocking up their pantries and preparing their disaster supplies kits, AWS is also preparing for winter snow storms and the subsequent hurricane season. After fielding several customer requests for information about our preparation regime, my colleagues Brian Beach and Ilya Epshteyn wrote the following guest post in […]