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May 21, 2013
AWS has achieved FedRAMP compliance – now federal agencies can save significant time, costs and resources in their evaluation of AWS! After demonstrating adherence to hundreds of controls by providing thousands of artifacts as part of a security assessment, AWS...
May 20, 2013
Let's take a quick look at what happened in AWS-land last week: Monday, May 13 The AWS Security Blog covered an important compliance announcement: The availability of a SOC-3 Report that includes both New Services and a New Region. Tuesday,...
May 17, 2013
We released the Amazon Elastic Transcoder with an initial set of features and a promise to iterate quickly based on customer feedback. You've supplied us with plenty of feedback (primarily via the Elastic Transcoder Forum) and have a set of...
May 16, 2013
We continue to make improvements, large and small, to Amazon DynamoDB. In addition to a new parallel scan feature, you can now change your provisioned throughput more quickly. We are also changing the way that we measure read capacity in...
May 15, 2013
Chris Barclay of the AWS OpsWorks team has put together a really nice guest post to introduce you to three new AWS OpsWorks features. -- Jeff; We are pleased to announce three new AWS OpsWorks features that make it even...
May 14, 2013
Over the past six or seven years I have had the opportunity to see customers of all sizes use Amazon EC2 to power their applications, including high traffic web sites, Genome analysis platforms, and SAP applications. I have learned that...
May 13, 2013
Let's take a quick look at what happened in AWS-land last week: Monday, May 6 We announced that the AWS SDK for Node.js is now generally available. The AWS Security Blog discussed Writing IAM Policies to Grant Access to S3...
May 10, 2013
After four months of planning and over 500 emails, I am less than 48 hours away from the start of my 5,000 mile road trip! I have created the AWS Road Trip site to give you the opportunity to follow...
May 10, 2013
Amazon Web Services is sponsoring the new Animated Short Films category at this year's Napa Valley Film Festival. This new category will encourage animated short film submissions and the use of technology to bring a story to life. We hope...
May 08, 2013
You can use AWS Direct Connect to create a dedicated network connection from your datacenter, office, or colocation environment to AWS. Connections are always made to a particular Direct Connect location, and can run at either 1 Gbps or 10...
May 08, 2013
Tom Rizzo is back with another Windows Wednesday post, announcing a new feature that will make it even easier for you to monitor your EC2 instances running Windows. -- Jeff; With our continuing investment in making AWS the best place...
May 08, 2013
I am happy to announce that EBS Provisioned IOPS volumes now support up to 4,000 IOPS. This represents a fourfold increase from the original Provisioned IOPS volume performance since last year's launch. You can now dial it up to 4,000...
May 07, 2013
I saw an interesting quote this past weekend from inventor and entrepreneur Dean Kamen. In response to a claim of instant success for one of his products, Dean responded that it wasn't in fact instant, but was actually the result...
May 07, 2013
The General Availability (GA) release of the AWS SDK for Node.js is now available and can be installed through npm as aws-sdk. We have added a number of features since the preview release including bound parameters, streams, IAM roles for...
May 06, 2013
Let's take a quick look at what happened in AWS-land last week: Monday, April 29 We announced the new AWS Security Blog. The first post begins a series on Securing Access to AWS using MFA (Multi-Factor Authentication). Tuesday, April 30...
May 02, 2013
I have long believed (and spoken about) the fact programmability is one of the attributes that defines a cloud. The availability of APIs for fundamental cloud features means that you, as a developer, can build tools, utilities, and applications to...
May 02, 2013
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Apr 30, 2013
We are launching the AWS Global Certification Program for our customers and our partners today. If you are a Solution Architect, System Administrator, or Developer and you want to formally certify your knowledge of AWS, I think you will find...
Apr 30, 2013
The AWS team works non-stop to improve the security of our services. As you can see from the timeline below, many of our recent releases have made it easier for you to secure your cloud resources. The new AWS Security...
Apr 29, 2013
Let's take a quick look at what happened in AWS-land last week: Monday, April 22 We announced that Amazon Redshift and the High Storage Eight instance type are now available in the EU West (Ireland) Region. The AWS Mobile Blog...
Apr 26, 2013
It is Friday afternoon inbox-clearing time for me! Before I abandon my keyboard for the weekend I want to share a few items related to our popular AWS Summit series. For The Record The 2013 summits in New York, Australia,...
Apr 25, 2013
Amazon Coins are a new virtual currency that will be made available to Kindle Fire users this coming May. They can be used to pay for apps and for most in-app purchases. If your app runs on the Kindle Fire,...
Apr 24, 2013
The AWS Marketplace is an online store that helps you to find, compare, and immediately start using any one of a large number of software infrastructure components, developer tools, and business solutions, all using 1-Click Deployment. You can now launch...
Apr 24, 2013
The AWS GovCloud (US) was built with government customers in mind. It is an isolated AWS Region designed to allow US government agencies and customers to move sensitive workloads into the cloud. AWS GovCloud (US) adheres to US International Traffic...
Apr 22, 2013
Let's take a quick look at what happened in AWS-land last week: Wednesday, April 17 We announced IAM Roles for AWS Elastic Beanstalk. The AWS Ruby Blog discussed Locking Dependency Versions with Bundler. Thursday, April 18 We announced that Amazon...
Apr 19, 2013
Version 6.4 of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) is now available as an Amazon Machine Image (AMI) for use on all EC2 instance types in all AWS Regions. With this release, AMIs are available for 32 and 64-bit PVM (paravirtualized)...
Apr 18, 2013
The Amazon Partner Network (APN) focuses on helping our partners to build successful AWS-powered businesses by providing them with strong technical, sales, marketing, and go-to-market support. Today we are taking a step forward with the introduction of new training, accreditation,...
Apr 18, 2013
Amazon RDS for Oracle Database now supports a pair of important features to help protect your mission-critical data: Transparent Data Encryption protects data at rest. It encrypts your data before it is written to storage, and decrypts it after it...
Apr 18, 2013
You can now create local secondary indexes for Amazon DynamoDB tables. These indexes provide give you the power to query your tables in new ways, and can also increase retrieval efficiency. What's a Local Secondary Index? The local secondary index...
Apr 18, 2013
Last June I blogged about the first trillion objects stored in Amazon S3. On the first day of re:Invent I updated that number to 1.3 trillion. It is time for another update! I'm pleased to announce that there are now...
Apr 17, 2013
What's an IAM Role? An AWS IAM (Identity and Access Management) role allows an application running on Amazon EC2 or AWS Elastic Beanstalk to act on your behalf. A role must be assumed by an entity (the instance or the...
Apr 15, 2013
Let's take a quick look at what happened in AWS-land last week: Monday, April 8 We announced that AWS Elastic Beanstalk for .NET now Supports VPC, RDS, and Configuration Files. AWS Marketplace and Citrix started a promotion for NetScaler VPX...
Apr 12, 2013
We launched Amazon CloudSearch just about a year ago today. In the year since we've launched, we've seen great customer adoption across a number of market segments for a wide variety of use cases. CloudSearch in Action Here are just...
Apr 11, 2013
The AWS Storage Gateway can now be run in the Microsoft Hyper-V virtualization environment. You can use the Storage Gateway to marry your existing on-premises storage systems with the AWS cloud for backup, departmental file share storage, or disaster recovery....
Apr 09, 2013
AWS Elastic Beanstalk for .NET now supports the Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), seamlessly integrates with the Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS), and can be customized using configuration files. Elastic Beanstalk allows you to easily deploy and manage .NET applications...
Apr 08, 2013
Let's take a quick look at what happened in AWS-land last week: Monday, April 1 To celebrate April Fool's Day, we released PC2 - the Punched Card Cloud. Tuesday, April 2 We announced that Amazon Redshift and the the EC2...
Apr 05, 2013
The AWS team has been working hard to build powerful and exciting new features for Windows on AWS. In the last month we have released support for SQL Server AlwaysOn Availability Groups, a beta of the AWS Diagnostics for Microsoft...
Apr 04, 2013
The AWS tagging feature helps you to label and identify your cloud resources. In today's guest post, Senior Product Manager Derek Lyon reveals the details of a new Tags page in the EC2 console. -- Jeff; We are adding a...
Apr 04, 2013
Jeff Wierer, Senior Product Manager on the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) team sent along a guest post to introduce a powerful new IAM feature. -- Jeff; AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) enables you to create policies that...
Apr 03, 2013
You can now launch Amazon Redshift clusters and EC2 High Storage instances in the US West (Oregon) Region. Amazon Redshift Amazon Redshift is a fully managed data warehouse service that lets you create, run, and manage a petabyte-scale data warehouse...
Apr 02, 2013
Today we have a really interesting guest post from Prashant Pandey (Engineering Manager for DynamoDB) and Pravin Muthukumar (Business Development Manager for Database Services). -- Jeff; Real-time bidding (RTB) allows advertisers and publishers to buy and sell online display ad...
Apr 01, 2013
At least once per decade (I've been at this evangelism thing for a long time), a potential customer will ask me1 if we have ever thought of building a cloud of mainframe computers. They recognize the benefits of cloud computing,...
Apr 01, 2013
Let's take a quick look at what happened in AWS-land last week: Monday, March 25 The EC2 IP address ranges were updated (this happened earlier in the month but I missed it). There are now 3.7 million IP addresses listed....
Mar 29, 2013
The AWS team is out in force at the Microsoft Management Summit in Las Vegas. AWS Booth #733 Visit our booth to learn more about AWS and ways to build, deploy and monitor your Microsoft Windows Server instances. Product managers...
Mar 27, 2013
Max Spevack runs the team that produces the Amazon Linux AMI. Today he's here to tell you about the newest version of this popular AMI. -- Jeff; Following our usual six month release cycle, the Amazon Linux AMI 2013.03 is...
Mar 26, 2013
Back in the early days of AWS, I would often receive questions that boiled down to "This sounds really interesting, but what about security?" We created the AWS Security & Compliance Center to publish information about the various reports, certifications,...
Mar 26, 2013
In the last ten years I have spoken at AWS, PHP, Linux, Perl, Java, and .NET user groups in the US, Europe, and Asia. User groups are simultaneously less formal and more intense than conference sessions. Instead of the usual...
Mar 25, 2013
Let's take a quick look at what happened in AWS-land last week: Monday, March 18 We announced that the Amazon Simple Workflow Service is now available in the AWS GovCloud (US) Region. Tuesday, March 19 We added additional EBS-Optimized Instance...
Mar 25, 2013
Several of my colleagues on the AWS team are heading to the Game Developers Conference (GDC) in San Francisco this week. So, if you are planning to be there, stop by and say hi. We have a booth and a...
Mar 20, 2013
We are adding EBS-optimized support to four additional EC2 instance types. You can now request dedicated throughput between EC2 instances and your EBS (Elastic Block Store) volumes at launch time: Instance Type Dedicated Throughput m1.large 500 Mbps m1.xlarge 1000 Mbps...
Mar 18, 2013
Let's take a quick look at what happened in AWS-land last week: Monday, March 11 We announced AWS Elastic Beanstalk for Node.js. We announced an important EC2 update - Virtual Private Clouds for Everyone. Tuesday, March 12 We announced the...
Mar 14, 2013
In the latest episode of The AWS Report, I spoke with Sebastian Stadil of Scalr to learn more about their cloud management software: -- Jeff;
Mar 14, 2013
Have you ever been to a Startup Weekend event? In the space of 54 hours starting on a Friday evening (here's a typical schedule), participants pitch business ideas, form teams, implement their ideas, and present their work before a panel...
Mar 14, 2013
The Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) takes care of the low-level drudgery associated with setting up, managing, and scaling a relational database. With support for multiple versions of MySQL, Oracle Database, and Microsoft SQL Server, RDS can be used in...
Mar 14, 2013
The Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) handles all of the messy low-level aspects of setting up, managing, and scaling MySQL, Oracle Database, and SQL Server databases. You can simply create an RDS DB instance with the desired processing power and...
Mar 12, 2013
We know that you want to build applications that span AWS Regions and we're working to provide you with the services and features needed to do so. We started out by launching the EBS Snapshot Copy feature late last year....
Mar 12, 2013
Back in January we released our first Management Console mobile app for Android users. We’re now pleased to announce the availability of the AWS Console for iPhone! The app summarizes the status of your EC2 instances, CloudWatch alarms, total service...
Mar 11, 2013
I’m happy to be able to tell you that AWS Elastic Beanstalk now supports Node.js applications. You can now build event-driven Node.js applications and then use Elastic Beanstalk to deploy and manage them on AWS. Elastic Beanstalk automatically configures the...
Mar 11, 2013
If you use or plan to use Amazon EC2, you need to read this post! History Lesson Way back in the beginning (OK, 2006) we launched Amazon EC2. When you launched an instance we gave it a public IP address...
Mar 11, 2013
Let's take a quick look at what happened in AWS-land last week: Monday, March 4 We announced that you can get a $120 AWS credit by using SAP HANA One. Amazon RDS now provides easier access to database log files....
Mar 08, 2013
We're making Amazon DynamoDB an even better value today, with a price reduction and a new reserved capacity pricing model. Behind the scenes, we've worked hard to make this happen. We have fine-tuned our storage and our processing model, optimized...
Mar 06, 2013
Tom Rizzo is back with another guest post. Today he brings news of an implementation guide and some CloudFormation templates to show you how to implement SQL Server AlwaysOn Availability Groups. -- Jeff; Welcome to another installment of Windows Wednesday!...
Mar 06, 2013
We were pleased to be able to sponsor the University Hacker Olympics event earlier this year. Held in San Francisco, the event attracted 100 student scholars from 25 universities. The students competed for a chance to win over $150,000 in...
Mar 06, 2013
Several of my colleagues on the AWS team are heading to South by Southwest (SxSW) this year. If you are planning to be there, they'd be overjoyed to meet you. We have a booth, two AWS sessions, and some special...
Mar 05, 2013
Charlie from Modulus wrote in to tell me that their new platform is now available, and that it runs on AWS. Modulus was designed to let you build and host Node.js applications in a scalable fashion. Node.js is a server-side...
Mar 05, 2013
The AWS team is always exploring ways to reduce costs and to pass the savings along to our customers. We're more than happy to continue this tradition with our latest price reduction. Starting today, we are reducing prices for new...
Mar 05, 2013
We're hiring in Berlin! We are scaling up the existing AWS OpsWorks team and we're building a new Machine Learning team as well. We are setting up a recruiting event in Berlin that will run from the 11th to the...
Mar 05, 2013
You can now access the log files generated by your Amazon RDS DB Instances running MySQL, Oracle Database, or SQL Server via the AWS Management Console and the Amazon RDS APIs. You can use these logs to identify, troubleshoot, and...
Mar 04, 2013
You can now get a $120 AWS Credit with any new SAP Hana One subscription. As noted in my previous blog posts, SAP HANA One is an in-memory data platform well suited for performing real-time analytics, and developing and deploying...
Mar 04, 2013
Let's take a quick look at what happened in AWS-land last week: Monday, February 25 We published the AWS OpsWorks One Week Report to provide answers to some of the more interesting questions we've heard. Tuesday, February 26 We announced...
Mar 04, 2013
The AWS Trusted Advisor is a really cool but relatively little-known part of AWS. It inspects your AWS environment and makes recommendations to help you save money, improve performance, or close security gaps. Because the AWS Trusted Advisor draws upon...
Feb 28, 2013
We launched the Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS) in 2004 and the Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS) in 2010. Our customers have constantly discovered powerful new ways to build more scalable, elastic and reliable applications with these building blocks. We...
Feb 27, 2013
Over the past few years, we have seen tremendous adoption of Microsoft Windows Server in AWS. Customers such as the Department of Treasury, the United States Tennis Association, and Lionsgate Film and Entertainment are building and running interesting Windows Server...
Feb 25, 2013
It’s been an exciting first week for AWS OpsWorks. We appreciate all the product feedback through Twitter, blogs, forums and email. We wanted to share a few common questions that we’re hearing and explain a little more about our plans...
Feb 25, 2013
Let's take a quick look at what happened in AWS-land last week: Monday, February 18 We updated and improved a number of pages on the AWS site including Cloud Computing on AWS, the AWS Free Usage Tier, Enterprise on AWS,...
Feb 25, 2013
We have added three new features to the CloudWatch Monitoring Scripts for Linux. These scripts can be run in the background to periodically report system metrics to Amazon CloudWatch, where they will be stored for two weeks When you install...
Feb 21, 2013
AWS CloudFormation gives you an easy way to create and manage a collection of related AWS resources. You define a template (or use one of ours) and hand it over to CloudFormation. It will take care of creating all of...
Feb 20, 2013
The AWS Marketplace now supports software running on Red Hat Enterprise Linux, commonly known as RHEL. If you use RHEL on AWS, you can now find, buy, and then one-click deploy an ever-growing set of applications from top-tier software vendors....
Feb 20, 2013
We're running AWS Summits in 12 cities this year! If you are a developer or a technical leader and you want to learn more about the AWS Cloud and how to put it to use, these free one-day events are...
Feb 19, 2013
It’s been over six years since we launched Amazon EC2. After that launch, we’ve delivered several solutions that make it easier for you to deploy and manage applications. Two years ago we launched AWS CloudFormation to provide an easy way...
Feb 18, 2013
Let's take a quick look at what happened in AWS-land last week: Monday, February 11 You can now Create a Backup Website Using Route 53 DNS Failover and S3 Website Hosting. Tuesday, February 12 A new post on the AWS...
Feb 15, 2013
We announced Amazon Redshift, our fast and powerful, fully managed, petabyte-scale data warehouse service, late last year (see my earlier blog post for more info). As we often do with complex new services, we started out by making a limited...
Feb 14, 2013
When you create a Multi-AZ Database Instance using the Amazon Relational Database Service, we automatically create a standby instance which maintains an up-to-date copy of the primary database. If the primary database goes down due to a instance, storage, or...
Feb 12, 2013
Route 53's new DNS Failover feature gives you the power to monitor your website and automatically route your visitors to a backup site if it goes down. In today's guest post, Product Manager Sean Meckley shows you how to use...
Feb 11, 2013
Let's take a quick look at what happened in AWS-land last week: Monday, February 4 I published a new episode of The AWS Report featuring Russ Dietz of SafeNet. The Relational Database Service now supports Event Subscriptions. Tuesday, February 5...
Feb 07, 2013
Last summer, I introduced cost allocation reports and tagging, a new system that allows you to organize and track your AWS resources and their associated cost. I also mentioned that we’ll incrementally make this feature bigger and better over time....
Feb 06, 2013
We have updated the AWS Architecture Center with a trio of new reference architectures for e-commerce. Each reference architecture includes a detailed system overview, a detailed architectural diagram, and a list of the AWS services used in the architecture. Here's...
Feb 06, 2013
I'm pleased to announce that AWS has been certified to host the SAP Business Suite environment (generally known as a "landscape") in full production mode. This includes the following products: SAP Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) SAP Customer Relationship Management (CRM)...
Feb 04, 2013
You can now elect to receive notifications via the Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS) for a wide variety of events associated with each of your Relational Database Service (RDS) instances. Why Notify? If you are a database administrator (DBA), you...
Feb 04, 2013
In the latest episode of The AWS Report, I spoke with Russ Dietz of SafeNet to learn more about their security products for AWS: SafeNet's data protection and security products run on AWS and offer a number of unique features...
Feb 04, 2013
Let's take a quick look at what happened in AWS-land last week: Monday, January 28 We introduced the Amazon Elastic Transcoder. The AWS Java Blog published an article on Subscribing Queues to Topics. The AWS Ruby Blog published part four...
Feb 01, 2013
We continue to work to make AWS more powerful and less expensive, and to pass the savings on to you. To that end, I have three important announcements: EC2's M3 instance family is now available in all AWS Regions including...
Jan 31, 2013
The Amazon Simple Workflow Service is a workflow service that you can use to build scalable, resilient applications. You can automate business processes, manage complex cloud applications, or sequence some genes. Today we are making the Simple Workflow Service available...
Jan 29, 2013
In the latest episode of The AWS Report, I spoke with Jim Young of Esri to learn more about their mapping product and how they run on AWS: I learned that Esri is a 40-year old mapping company that has...
Jan 29, 2013
Transcoding is the process of converting a media file (audio or video) from one format, size, or quality to another. Implementing a transcoding system on your own can be fairly complex. You might need to use a combination of open...
Jan 28, 2013
We held the Grand Finale of the 2012 AWS Start-Up Challenge at the Dogpatch WineWorks in San Francisco. Each of the twelve finalists presented their AWS-powered start-up to a capacity crowd and then anxiously awaited word from the judges. AWS...
Jan 28, 2013
Let's take a quick look at what happened in AWS-land last week: Monday, January 21 We introduced the High Memory Cluster Eight Extra Large Instance type. The AWS Ruby blog posted part 3 of an article on AWS Credential Providers....
Jan 24, 2013
In the latest episode of The AWS Report, I spoke with Michelle Munson of Aspera to learn more about their high-speed file transfer products: -- Jeff;
Jan 22, 2013
Our new High Memory Cluster Eight Extra Large (cr1.8xlarge) instance type is designed to host applications that have a voracious need for compute power, memory, and network bandwidth such as in-memory databases, graph databases, and memory intensive HPC. Here are...
Jan 21, 2013
Let's take a quick look at what happened in AWS-land last week: Monday, January 14 I published a new episode of The AWS Report featuring Lisa Green of Common Crawl. The AWS Java Blog published the AWS Meme Generator sample...
Jan 17, 2013
In addition to delivering great services and features to our customers, we are constantly working towards helping customers so that they can build highly-scalable, highly-available cost-effective cloud solutions using our services. We not only provide technical documentation for each service...
Jan 15, 2013
You can now change the name and endpoint of an existing Amazon RDS database Instance via the AWS Management Console, the Amazon RDS API, or the Amazon RDS Command Line toolkit. This feature is available in all AWS regions and...
Jan 14, 2013
Ok, there you are, about to build an application that has to store lots and lots of data in cost-effective yet scalable fashion. Should you use a relational model or should you go NoSQL? Should you use DynamoDB, Redshift, RDS,...
Jan 14, 2013
In the latest episode of The AWS Report, I spoke with Lisa Green of Common Crawl to learn more about what they do and how they use AWS: The Common Crawl data is available in the form of an AWS...
Jan 14, 2013
Let's take a quick look at what happened in AWS-land last week: Monday, January 7 You can now use Amazon CloudWatch actions to stop or terminate an EC2 instance when an alarm is triggered. Wednesday, January 9 We announced that...
Jan 10, 2013
I announced the 24 semi-finalists of the AWS Start-Up Challenge last week. Today I am pleased to announce that we've chosen the following 12 finalists: Big Data & High Performance Computing Demyst Data (Hong Kong) - Real-time analysis of consumer...
Jan 08, 2013
As you probably know, Amazon CloudWatch provides monitoring services for your cloud resources and your applications. You can track cloud, system, and application metrics, see them visually, and arrange to be notified (via a CloudWatch alarm) if they go beyond...
Jan 08, 2013
Let's take a quick look at what happened in AWS-land last week: Tuesday, January 1 We posted page full of additional resources for AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM). Wednesday, January 2 We launched the ElastiCache Auto Discovery client for...
Jan 04, 2013
Managing your AWS resources has become easier and more direct over the years! Let's do a quick recap before we dig in: We launched Amazon SQS (2004) and Amazon S3 (2006) as pure APIs, with no tool support whatsoever. Developers...
Jan 03, 2013
We received close to 2,500 applications for the 2012 AWS Start-Up Challenge! Applications arrived from every state in the US and from 84 other countries including Iceland, Ghana, Bahrain, Nepal, Cambodia, and Malawi. Our suite of judges have chosen the...
Dec 31, 2012
Due to the holidays, today's report covers the past two weeks! Monday, December 17 You can now copy an EBS Snapshot between AWS Regions. Tuesday, December 18 We added an Analytics Dashboard and real-time comparison of rank expressions to Amazon...
Dec 28, 2012
As you may already know, you can host your static website on Amazon S3, giving you the ability to sustain any conceivable level of traffic, at a very modest cost, without the need to set up, monitor, scale, or manage...
Dec 21, 2012
What's GovCloud? AWS GovCloud (US) is a gated community cloud designed to support the compliance needs of customer workloads with direct or indirect ties to U.S. Government functions, services, or regulations. The AWS GovCloud (US) framework adheres to U.S. International...
Dec 21, 2012
AWS CloudFormation gives you the power to launch an entire stack of AWS resources using a declarative template. The templates are JSON-formatted text files that define all of the necessary resources, their attributes, and the relationships between them. Today we...
Dec 21, 2012
The AWS Data Pipeline is now ready for use and you can sign up here. As I described in my initial blog post, the AWS Data Pipeline gives you the power to automate the movement and processing of any amount...
Dec 21, 2012
In our continuing quest to ensure that Amazon EC2 is applicable to an incredibly broad array of use cases, we are launching a new instance family today. The High Storage Eight Extra Large (hs1.8xlarge) instances are a great fit for...
Dec 19, 2012
In the latest episode of The AWS Report, I spoke with Jeff Lawson of Twilio to learn more about what they do and how they use AWS: As Jeff noted, Twilio has a presence in six AWS Regions and their...
Dec 19, 2012
AWS Elastic Beanstalk can now provision and configure AWS resources to power your application. In conjunction with a new version of our PHP runtime, you get more control and more flexibility with less code. In October, we announced the Elastic...
Dec 18, 2012
To make it even easier for you to build AWS applications that span regions, we're introducing a new EBS Snapshot Copy feature today. You can now copy EBS snapshots between EC2 Regions. Why Copy? So, why would you want to...
Dec 17, 2012
Let's take a quick look at what happened in AWS-land last week: Monday, December 10 We announced the results of the first EC2 Spotathon. Congratulations to the winners! Wednesday, December 12 We added a number of new customer case studies:...
Dec 14, 2012
At AWS we place a high value on the "Voice of the Customer." We do our best to listen and to learn, and to make sure that our plans line up with what we are hearing. We've had a number...
Dec 10, 2012
Let's take a quick look at what happened in AWS-land last week: Monday, December 3 We announced that Amazon DynamoDB is now avaiable in the AWS GovCloud (US). Tuesday, December 4 We announced that there are now Windows products in...
Dec 10, 2012
Last week at the AWS re:Invent conference, we announced the results of the first-ever Amazon EC2 Spotathon. Stephen Elliott, Senior Product Manager on the Amazon EC2 team, provided us with a very informative guest post with a full recap of...
Dec 06, 2012
We launched an AWS Region in Brazil almost a year ago, along with Portuguese and Spanish versions of the AWS Blog. Today we are adding the following new AWS functionality in the Region: AWS Elastic Beanstalk - You can now...
Dec 06, 2012
Tom Rizzo is back, with his second Windows Wednesday post! -- Jeff; Over the years, we have introduced a number of tools that make it easy for Windows customers to use Amazon Web Services. We provide an SDK for .NET,...
Dec 05, 2012
The AWS Developer Tools Team focuses on delivering the developer tools and SDKs that are a good fit for today's languages and programming environments. Today we are announcing support for the JavaScript language in the Node.js environment -- the new...
Dec 04, 2012
Today we are opening up the AWS Markeplace to applications running on Microsoft Windows. We're launching with an initial set of applications, with many more in the pipeline for release in the near future. If you are a Windows ISV...
Dec 03, 2012
Let's take a quick look at what happened in AWS-land last week: Monday, November 26 I published a new AWS Report featuring Venugopal Pai of Riverbed. Tuesday, November 27 We showed you how to Enable Single Sign-On to the AWS...
Nov 29, 2012
Data. Information. Big Data. Business Intelligence. It's all the rage these days. Companies of all sizes are realizing that managing data is a lot more complicated and time consuming than in the past, despite the fact that the cost of...
Nov 29, 2012
Amazon ElastiCache gives you the power to improve application performance by adding a flexible, scalable caching layer between your application and your database. Today we are happy to announce a new feature that will make ElastiCache even easier to use....
Nov 29, 2012
I'm writing to you from the floor of AWS re:Invent, where a capacity crowd is learning all about the latest and greatest AWS developments. As part of the welcoming keynote, AWS Senior VP Andy Jassy announced that we’re reducing prices...
Nov 28, 2012
You may have noticed that we announced Amazon Redshift today – a data warehouse service that is a lot faster, simpler, and less expensive than alternatives available today. Let's Talk About Data A data warehouse is a specialized type of...
Nov 28, 2012
The AWS Trusted Advisor is really cool. It provides you with advice and recommendations that will allow you to spend less money on AWS, and to make better use of a number of AWS features and facilities. I recently spoke...
Nov 27, 2012
AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) enables you to create and manage IAM users and manage access to your AWS account. Some customers have told us that they prefer leveraging their existing corporate identities to access AWS services and resources...
Nov 26, 2012
For this episode of The AWS Report, I traveled to San Francisco and spoke with Venugopal Pai, Vice President of Alliances at Riverbed: Pai (as he prefers to be called) talks about Riverbed's evolution from WAN performance to application performance...
Nov 26, 2012
Let's take a quick look at what happened in AWS-land last week: Monday, November 19 The most recent episode of The AWS Report features an interview with David Rocamore of Controlgroup. We now support delegating API access to AWS services...
Nov 23, 2012
We're working hard to make the AWS Marketplace even more flexible and to make sure that it contains the operating systems, tools, and other resources that you need. Today we are adding support for three new open source operating systems:...
Nov 21, 2012
The Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS) and the Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS) are important "glue" components for scalable, cloud-based applications (see the Reference Architectures in the AWS Architecture Center to learn more about how to put them to use...
Nov 21, 2012
We've received some great feedback on the EC2 instance status checks that were released earlier this year. Our customers appreciate the fact that we can detect and report on how their EC2 instances are performing. Today we are taking are...
Nov 20, 2012
The excitement is building for AWS re:Invent and I am looking forward to my trip to Las Vegas. I've got important information for attendees and for online viewers! AWS re:Invent for Attendees If you will be heading to Las Vegas...
Nov 20, 2012
Today we have a post written by guest blogger Alex Dunlap who is a Senior Manager on the AWS Team, responsible for Product Management for Amazon CloudFront and Amazon Route 53. And now to Alex... -- Jeff; Over the last...
Nov 20, 2012
One of the most interesting and challenging jobs on the AWS team (besides mine, of course) is that of Solutions Architect. As a Solutions Architect, you spend virtually all of your time working with our customers to help them get...
Nov 20, 2012
Today we have an awesome guest post from a General Manager on the Amazon EC2 team. Enjoy! -- Jeff; Before talking about Windows Server 2012, let me first introduce myself. My name is Tom Rizzo and I’m the General Manager...
Nov 20, 2012
Today I'm happy to bring you a guest post from Anders Samuelsson, Senior Product Manager on the AWS Identity and Access Management team. -- Jeff; Suppose you run a research lab and you dump a terabyte or so of data...
Nov 19, 2012
For this episode of The AWS Report, I interviewed David Rocamora, VP of DevOps for Controlgroup. We talked about the origins of cloud computing at Controlgroup, and the way that it has allowed them to make radical, transformative changes in...
Nov 19, 2012
Let's take a quick look at what happened in AWS-land last week: Monday, November 12 We launched a new AWS Region in Sydney, Australia. Tuesday, November 13 I published a new episode of The AWS Report, featuring John Smiley of...
Nov 17, 2012
The AWS Marketplace has been growing by leaps and bounds. The number of listings has been growing steadily and we're really happy with the number of launches that are taking place. Today we are adding a new Big Data category...
Nov 15, 2012
Now that the 2012 US Presidential Election is over, I'd like to take you behind the scenes and tell you a bit about the technology that powered President Obama's successful reelection campaign! To set the stage, imagine setting up the...
Nov 15, 2012
Amazon Glacier is designed for storing data that is infrequently accessed. Once you have stored your data, you can retrieve up to 5% of it (prorated daily) each month at no charge. Today we are making it easier for you...
Nov 15, 2012
For this episode of The AWS Report, I interviewed Adam Gray, Senior Product Manager on the Amazon EC2 team, to learn more about Elastic MapReduce, Hive, and Pig: As you can see from the video, Seattle's famous Space Needle was...
Nov 15, 2012
We launched Amazon Simple Workflow (SWF) earlier this year, introducing a service designed to help developers automate the coordination of work in applications for better scalability and performance. Coordination of work in an application becomes particularly onerous for developers to...
Nov 15, 2012
I'm happy to announce that we are launching three new blogs, all focused on developers and each one targeted at a particular language or platform. Here's what we have for you: The new AWS Mobile Blog is for users of...
Nov 14, 2012
AWS provides you with a number of data storage options. Today I would like to focus on Amazon S3 and Amazon Glacier and a new and powerful way for you to use both of them together. Both of the services...
Nov 14, 2012
If you are using Amazon ElastiCache to implement a caching layer in your application, you now have four additional cache node types to choose from, bringing the total up to eleven types. Here are the new types and their specs:...
Nov 13, 2012
Part of our modus operandi at AWS is to help customers lower the costs of operating their infrastructure. When we are able to achieve better efficiencies in our own datacentres, we pass those savings back on to our customers. That...
Nov 13, 2012
For this episode of The AWS Report, I interviewed John Smiley, Principal Database Engineer on the Amazon RDS team, to learn more about the new Provisioned IOPS feature for RDS: We discussed use cases and scalability, and the fact that...
Nov 12, 2012
Let's take a quick look at what happened in AWS-land last week: Monday, November 5 We released consistent BatchGet and other new features for DynamoDB. We updated Amazon CloudSearch with new features, lower prices, and a free trial. We launched...
Nov 12, 2012
It is time to expand the AWS footprint once again, with a new Region in Sydney, Australia. AWS customers in Australia can now enjoy fast, low-latency access to the suite of AWS infrastructure services. New Region The new Sydney Region...
Nov 09, 2012
In this episode of The AWS Report, I interviewed Ramesh Panuganty of Cognizant to learn more about their Cloud 360 product: Cloud 360 helps technology and business managers to deploy and manage cloud-based architectures in a flexible and scalable fashion....
Nov 09, 2012
We announced the Simple Queue Service (SQS) eight years ago, give or take a day. Although this was our first infrastructure web service, we launched it with little fanfare and gave no hint that this was just the first of...
Nov 08, 2012
Stephen Elliott Talks About EC2 Spot Instances If you have used EC2 Spot Instances in a unique way, you need to enter the Amazon EC2 Spotathon. This is an open-ended coding challenge designed to allow you to show off what...
Nov 08, 2012
I'm happy to be able to report that we have sold all of the available seats at AWS re:Invent! The halls here are ablaze with excitement and we're all working 18 hours per day to bring you a conference that...
Nov 07, 2012
I've got good news for users of the Amazon Relational Database Service and ElastiCache. We're reducing prices and adding more instance types. RDS Price Reduction We've reduced prices on RDS Database Instances by 8% to 14% in the US East...
Nov 06, 2012
In this episode of The AWS Report, I spoke with Scott Montgomery, Global Director of Strategy for Trend Micro to learn more about their cloud offerings and strategy. We talked about the transition from security for desktops and servers to...
Nov 05, 2012
One of the key differentiators of the AWS cloud is its flexibility. It allows you to not only choose the programming models, languages, operating systems but also deploy enterprise-grade packaged applications that have been already battle-tested by the industry. You...
Nov 05, 2012
Let's take a quick look at what happened in AWS-land last week: Monday, October 29 The AWS Storage Gateway is now generally available, and it now supports gateway-cached volumes. Wednesday, October 31 We made some important changes to the AWS...
Nov 05, 2012
I'm happy to announce a number of improvements to Amazon DynamoDB - Consistent BatchGet, Simultaneous Control Plane Operations, and more flexible updating of provisioned throughput. Let's take a look at each improvement. Consistent BatchGet DynamoDB's BatchGet operation has been extended...
Nov 02, 2012
I'm happy to announce that version 2 of the AWS SDK for PHP is now available. To take advantage of new features in PHP 5.3 and to conform to the recommendations of the PHP Framework Interop Group, we rebuilt the...
Nov 02, 2012
When we launched Provisioned IOPS for EBS earlier this year (blog post, EBS home page) we promised even more IOPS (Input/Output Operations Per second) over time. Time moves fast on the AWS team, and I'm happy to announce that you...
Nov 01, 2012
AWS Elastic Beanstalk now supports Ruby applications and Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC). Let's take a look at each of these important and powerful new features. Ruby Support Elastic Beanstalk continues to expand the list of supported platforms (Java, PHP,...
Nov 01, 2012
We launched Amazon EC2 with a single instance type (the venerable m1.small) in 2006. Over the years we have added many new instance types in order to allow our customers to run a very wide variety of applications and workloads....
Nov 01, 2012
I have some important news to share with you regarding this year’s AWS Global Start-Up Challenge! New Contest Close Date – December 5, 2012 We are extending the close date of the contest to Wednesday December 5, 2012, instead of...
Oct 31, 2012
I have been having discussions related to the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) of running workloads in the cloud as it compares to running them on-premises. One consistent conclusion is that weighing the financial considerations of owning and operating a...
Oct 30, 2012
In this episode of The AWS Report, I spoke with Matt Lull, Managing Director, Global Strategic Alliances, for Citrix to learn more about their cloud strategy. We talked about their line of virtualization products including Xen, XenServer, CloudBridge, and the...
Oct 30, 2012
The AWS Storage Gateway is a service that connects an on-premises software appliance with cloud-based storage. We launched the Storage Gateway earlier this year. The initial release supported on-premises iSCSI volume storage (what we call Gateway-Stored volumes), with snapshot backups...
Oct 22, 2012
Let's take a quick look at what happened in AWS-land last week: Monday, October 15 AWS CloudFormation now supports RDS DB Parameter Groups and Provisioned IOPS. Tuesday, October 16 SAP Hana One is now certified for production use on AWS....
Oct 22, 2012
For today's episode of the AWS Report, I spoke to Michael Crandell, co-founder and CEO of RightScale. RightScale was founded shortly after Amazon S3 and Amazon EC2 were introduced, with the goal of taking advantage of pay-as-you-go infrastructure as service....
Oct 19, 2012
In this episode of The AWS Report, I spoke with AWS Evangelist Matt Wood to learn about his track on Big Data and Analytics at AWS re:Invent. The track sounds awesome and I hope to be able to attend some...
Oct 19, 2012
Judging from the number of requests that I have had for this particular combination of EC2 features, I'm expecting this to be a very popular post. You can now launch EC2 micro (t1.micro) instances within a Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)....
Oct 16, 2012
Earlier this year I briefly mentioned SAP HANA and the fact that it was available for developer use on AWS. Today, SAP announced HANA One, a deployment option for HANA that is certified for production use on AWS available now...
Oct 16, 2012
For today's episode of The AWS Report, I spoke with Patrick McBride of Xceedium to learn more about their Xsuite Cloud product. which runs on AWS (including the Virtual Private Cloud and the AWS GovCloud): Xceedium is a Platinum sponsor...
Oct 15, 2012
The Amazon RDS team has been cranking out feature releases at an incredibly rapid pace. I'm working double secret overtime just to keep up with them. Here's what they've released in the past month (Click on the image to learn...
Oct 15, 2012
Let's take a quick look at what happened in AWS-land last week: Monday, October 8 Our friends at AWS Partner 8KMiles released a new presentation, Email Architecture using Amazon SES. Tuesday, October 9 We added two new checks to the...
Oct 15, 2012
We want to make EC2 Spot Instances even easier to use. One way we are doing this is by making the bidding and processing more open and more transparent. You probably know that you can use Spot Instances to bid...
Oct 12, 2012
Max Spevack of the Amazon EC2 team brings news of the latest Amazon Linux AMI. -- Jeff; The Amazon Linux AMI 2012.09 is now available. After we removed the “Public Beta” tag from the Amazon Linux AMI last September, we’ve...
Oct 12, 2012
As I described in my original blog post, you can easily create and manage read replicas using Amazon RDS for MySQL. From the AWS Management Console, you simply right-click on the database instance of interest and choose the Create Read...
Oct 11, 2012
As you can probably tell from the pace of releases on this blog, the Amazon RDS team has been designing, implementing, and deploying new features at a very rapid clip. They've added a number of data protection and security features...
Oct 10, 2012
AWS GovCloud (US) is a gated community cloud designed to support the compliance needs of customer workloads with direct or indirect ties to U.S. Government functions, services, or regulations. The AWS GovCloud (US) framework adheres to U.S. International Traffic in...
Oct 09, 2012
For today's episode of The AWS Report, I chatted with Balan Subramanian, Product Manager for the Amazon Simple Workflow Service. We discussed the Simple Workflow concept, and how it is possible to use it to build scalable, fault-tolerant application workflows....
Oct 08, 2012
Let's take a quick look at what happened in AWS-land last week: Monday, October 1 We launched the AWS Test Drive program to make it easier for you to get started with Oracle applications. My UK counterpart Ryan Shuttleworth posted...
Oct 08, 2012
AWS Marketplace now supports role-based permissions and management via AWS Identity and Access Management. Let's review the key terms before diving in to the details: AWS Marketplace makes it easy to find, buy, and 1-click deploy software to the cloud,...
Oct 05, 2012
With just over one month until the entries close for the AWS Global Start-Up Challenge, there’s still plenty of time to submit your start-up for consideration. This year, we are seeing lots of great applications in the Consumer Applications and...
Oct 05, 2012
Our friends at Boostability have been using Amazon S3 to help their clients build websites hosted on Amazon S3. Boostability provides search engine optimization technology and fulfillment services to agencies, media companies and phone book providers. I recently chatted with...
Oct 04, 2012
For many scientists, the computer has become as important as the test tube, the centrifuge or the grad student in delivering ground breaking research. Whether screening for active cancer treatments or colliding atoms, the availability of compute cycles can significantly...
Oct 04, 2012
Millions of our customers have used the Amazon Appstore in the US to discover and buy Android applications for their phones and tablets. We have recently expanded distribution beyond the US into the United Kingdom, Italy, France, Germany, and Spain....
Oct 04, 2012
Our customers have found Amazon SES to be straightforward to use, powerful, and cost effective. They are making heavy use of it! Amazon Simple Email Service (Amazon SES) greatly simplifies the task of sending bulk or transactional emails. You can...
Oct 03, 2012
Saad Ladki of the Elastic Beanstalk team is back with another guest post. Today, Saad talks about a customization feature that will allow you to customize the run-time configuration of your applications by installing packages and libraries, running commands, and...
Oct 01, 2012
I'm a big fan of the Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS). I enjoy showing people just how easy it is to create, scale, and backup a DB Instance running MySQL, SQL Server, or Oracle Database with just a few clicks...
Oct 01, 2012
Let's take a quick look at what happened in AWS-land last week: Monday, September 24 The good folks at Newvem published an article on Getting Started with AWS Direct Connect. Tuesday, September 25 NASDAQ OMX announced FinQloud, a cloud solution...
Oct 01, 2012
One of the key advantages that customers and partners are telling us they really appreciate about AWS is its unique ability to cut down the time required to evaluate new software stacks. These "solution appliances" can now be easily deployed...
Sep 28, 2012
You can now create Amazon RDS database instances running Oracle Database on Micro instances. This new, option will allow you to build, test, and run your low-traffic database-backed applications at a cost starting at $30 per month ($0.04 per hour)...
Sep 27, 2012
For today's episode of The AWS Report, I spoke to Billy Cox, Director of Cloud Strategy for Intel. We discussed the genesis of cloud computing, some historical trends, and ways that Intel is optimizing their processors for cloud-style workloads. I...
Sep 27, 2012
The Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) now supports SQL Server 2012.You can now launch the Express, Web, and Standard Editions of this powerful database from the comfort of the AWS Management Console. SQL Server 2008 R2 is still available, as...
Sep 26, 2012
I spent some time in Silicon Valley last week and late one afternoon I spoke to a group of Engineering VPs drawn from area companies. Although many of them were already AWS customers, it turned out that not everyone knew...
Sep 25, 2012
NASDAQ OMX's new FinQloud is a cloud solution designed to serve the needs of the regulated financial services industry. By building FinQloud on top of AWS, NASDAQ was able to create a protected environment for regulated data that meets very...
Sep 24, 2012
Let's take a quick look at what happened in AWS-land last week: Monday, September 17 We added four new checks to the AWS Trusted Advisor including EC2 Reserved Instance Optimization, VPN Tunnel Redundancy, RDS Backup, and RDS Multi-AZ. Tuesday, September...
Sep 21, 2012
David Yanacek of the Amazon DynamoDB team is back with another guest post, this one on the topic of optimizing the use of DynamoDB's unique provisioned throughput feature. While I'm on the topic of DynamoDB, I should mention that we...
Sep 19, 2012
Today's guest post comes to you from Omer Zaki, a Senior Product Manager on our Data Services team. Omer's post talks about how our customers have put Amazon ElastiCache to use in a wide variety of applications and environments. --...
Sep 18, 2012
Let's take a quick look at what happened in AWS-land last week: Tuesday, September 11 We launched the EC2 Reserved Instance Marketplace. Wednesday, September 12 We announced that Cluster GPU Instances are now available in the EU West (Ireland) region...
Sep 17, 2012
I am really looking forward to the re:Invent conference this coming November. I recently sat down with leaders of three of the tracks in order to learn more about the tracks. Deepak Singh told me all about the Compute and...
Sep 14, 2012
The Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) gives you the power to create a private, isolated section of the AWS Cloud. You have full control of network addressing. Each of your VPCs can include subnets (with access control lists), route tables,...
Sep 14, 2012
As you can tell from some of my recent posts, we're adding new features to the Virtual Private Cloud and to the Relational Database Service at a very rapid clip. Today's release involves both of these services! You can now...
Sep 14, 2012
I've been writing about and participating in our Start-Up Challenges since we launched the first one in 2007. I have always been impressed by the quality, depth, diversity, and sheer quantity of entries that we receive. I've long believed (and...
Sep 14, 2012
We announced an AWS Region in Tokyo about 18 months ago. In the time since the launch, our customers have launched all sorts of interesting applications and businesses there. Here are a few examples: Cookpad.com is the top recipe site...
Sep 14, 2012
The Amazon RDS team is rolling out new features at a very rapid clip. Here's the latest and greatest: Oracle Data Pump Customers have asked us to make it easier to import their existing databases into Amazon RDS. We are...
Sep 13, 2012
Today we have guest post from Norm Johanson, a Software Developer on our Developer Resources team. Norm has put together a post to show you how to track the session state of an ASP.NET application uusing Amazon DynamoDB. -- Jeff;...
Sep 12, 2012
If you've been following the story of high performance computing on AWS, you'll see that we added instances with general purpose GPUs just under two years ago. In that time customers have been using these powerful, multi-core processors for a...
Sep 12, 2012
EC2 Options I often tell people that cloud computing is equal parts technology and business model. Amazon EC2 is a good example of this; you have three options to choose from: You can use On-Demand Instances, where you pay for...
Sep 10, 2012
Let's take a quick look at what happened in AWS-land last week: Tuesday, September 4 I posted a new AWS Report, Michael Kellen of Sage Bionetworks. We announced that AWS Elastic Beanstalk is now available in Singapore. Wednesday, September 5...
Sep 06, 2012
For today's episode of The AWS Report, I spoke to Colin Lazier, a Senior Development Manager on the AWS Storage Team. Colin and I talked about Amazon Glacier and how it can be used to archive data for long periods...
Sep 06, 2012
I sat down with the Amazon CloudFront team last month and they told me about three important new features that will allow you to build applications that are better and faster, with the potential to save you some money as...
Sep 05, 2012
AWS Elastic Beanstalk is now available in the Asia Pacific (Singapore) region. You can now use Elastic Beanstalk to deploy, manage, and scale Java, .NET, PHP, and Python applications in the following AWS regions: US East (Northern Virginia) US West...
Sep 04, 2012
In the latest episode of The AWS Report, I interviewed Michael Kellen, Director of Technology for Sage Bionetworks of Seattle. Sage is a non-profit organization devoted to biomedical research.They aim to bring open source technologies and practices to this field...
Sep 03, 2012
Let's take a quick look at what happened in AWS-land last week: Monday, August 27 New AWS Report interview, Chris Wheeler discusses the Amazon Simple Email Service (SES). Friday, August 31 Amazon S3 now supports Cross Origin Resource Sharing (CORS)....
Aug 31, 2012
Why CORS? In order to keep your content safe, your web browser implements something called the same origin policy. The default policy ensures that scripts and other active content loaded from one site or domain cannot interfere or interact with...
Aug 31, 2012
I interviewed Todd Fasullo of Smartsheet learn more about Smartsheet and how it uses AWS to support online collaboration. Todd told me that they started using Amazon S3 way back in 2006 to store uploads and attachments. They added CloudFront...
Aug 27, 2012
I interviewed Chris Wheeler from the Amazon Simple Email Service (SES) team to learn more about SES and about how to get started with it. Chris walked me through the setup process, including the process to move from the sandbox...
Aug 27, 2012
Let's take a quick look at what happened in AWS-land last week: Monday, August 20 We released Amazon Glacier, archival storage for one penny per Gigabyte per month. Tuesday, August 21 Amazon DynamoDB now supports storage and retrieval of binary...
Aug 23, 2012
In this episode of The AWS Report I spoke with Anders Samuelsson, Senior Product Manager on the AWS Identity and Access Management team. We covered the basics of IAM and also chatted about the newest IAM feature, roles for EC2...
Aug 23, 2012
Amazon RDS makes it easy to provision and run production databases, and customers running RDS for SQL Server will be pleased to hear they can now use SQL Server Agent to schedule and execute administrative tasks on their databases. SQL...
Aug 22, 2012
We're adding a new region to our High Performance Computing service on EC2 today, and making a new template available to spin up clusters quickly and easily. But first, a quick recap. The story of High Performance Computing on EC2...
Aug 22, 2012
Esri is one of the leaders in the Geographic Information Systems (GIS) industry and one of the largest privately held software companies focused on mapping and geospatial applications in the world with offices in more than 100 countries. Both public...
Aug 22, 2012
Growth Challenges You probably know how it goes when you put AWS to work for your company. You start small -- one Amazon S3 bucket for some backups, or one Amazon EC2 instance hosting a single web site or web...
Aug 22, 2012
As Werner noted recently, Amazon DynamoDB is the fastest growing new service in the history of AWS! If you are a DynamoDB user, you already know the drill -- create a table, provision the throughput (in terms of read and...
Aug 21, 2012
You Need Glacier I’m going to bet that you (or your organization) spend a lot of time and a lot of money archiving mission-critical data. No matter whether you’re currently using disk, optical media or tape-based storage, it’s probably a...
Aug 21, 2012
Let's take a quick look at what happened in AWS-land last week: Monday, August 13 We updated AWS Direct Connect with new locations and AWS Management Console support. We published another AWS Report, this one featuring Kate Matsudaira, CTO of...
Aug 20, 2012
It’s a good day to be a Python developer: AWS Elastic Beanstalk now supports Python applications! If you’re not familiar with Elastic Beanstalk, it’s the easiest way to deploy and manage scalable PHP, Java, .NET, and now Python applications on...
Aug 17, 2012
We have added three new features to Amazon RDS for Oracle Database to enable you to use it for more of your use cases: You can use Amazon RDS for Oracle in Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) You can use...
Aug 14, 2012
Let's take a quick look at what happened in AWS-land last week: Monday, August 6 AWS Elastic MapReduce now supports Hadoop 1.0.3 including HDFS over HTTP. Wednesday, August 8 We released some EBS Provisioned IOPS resources including a benchmarking guide....
Aug 14, 2012
Did you know that you can use AWS Direct Connect to set up a dedicated 1 Gbps or 10 Gbps network connect from your existing data center or corporate office to AWS? New Locations Today we are adding two additional...
Aug 13, 2012
I interviewed Kate Matsudaira, CTO of Decide.com, for The AWS Report. Kate told me how Decide.com uses AWS to implement a next-generation online (web and mobile) shopping experience using terabytes of data pulled from thousands of sources. Behind the scenes,...
Aug 10, 2012
We launched the Amazon Partner Network (APN) just about a month ago and we've been really pleased with the response. The list of Technology Partners and Consulting Partners have been growing nicely. We are planning to recognize our most productive...
Aug 09, 2012
Our customers have been making great use of Amazon DynamoDB's provisioned throughput model! They are provisioning tables that handle hundreds of thousands of reads or writes per second to millions and even billions of items. They are adjusting provisioned throughput...
Aug 09, 2012
Earlier this summer I interviewed Michael Wasser, the founder of Raveld, located near Amazon's Seattle headquarters. Raveld's elevator pitch is "clear and concise cloud costs." I enjoyed speaking with Michael to learn about his product and how it uses AWS:...
Aug 08, 2012
If you are like me, you spent this past Sunday afternoon looking forward to the landing of the Curiosity rover on Mars. I was able to wrest the remote control away from my family and change to NASA TV in...
Aug 08, 2012
Our recent release of the EBS Provisioned IOPS feature (blog post, explanatory video, EBS home page) has met with a very warm reception. Developers all over the world are already making use of this important and powerful new EC2 feature....
Aug 07, 2012
Building mobile applications that are able to run on a variety of device types and operating systems is difficult. Building an enterprise application that connect to a variety of data sources is also tough. Combine the two, and you have...
Aug 06, 2012
I recently interviewed Sharon Chiarella for The AWS Report. Sharon is an Amazon Vice President with responsibility for the Amazon Mechanical Turk. After we talked about the Mechanical Turk concept in general terms ("a marketplace for work,") we zoomed in...
Aug 06, 2012
Let's take a quick look at what happened in AWS-land last week: Monday, July 30 Our friends at Netflix published the code for their Chaos Monkey, a member of their Simian Army of testing tools. You can now buy EC2...
Aug 01, 2012
The I/O Imperative As I noted earlier this month, modern web and mobile applications are highly I/O dependent, storing and retrieving lots of data in order to deliver a rich and personalized experience. In order to give you the I/O...
Jul 30, 2012
I recently interviewed Dave Peck, Co-Founder of Seattle-based Cloak. Designed for Macs, iPads, and iPhones, Cloak keeps you safe when you use public Wi-Fi networks in coffee shops, airports, hotels and conferences. It does this by creating an encrypted VPN...
Jul 30, 2012
You can now purchase EC2 Reserved Instances running Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Reserved Instances lower costs by giving you the option to make a low, one-time payment to reserve compute capacity and receive a significant discount on the hourly charge...
Jul 30, 2012
Let's take a quick look at what happened in AWS-land last week: Tuesday, July 24 I blogged about some improvements to the EC2 tab of the AWS Management Console. IDC published a commissioned white paper to show that the business...
Jul 27, 2012
I recently interviewed David Geller, President and CEO of Seattle-based Eyejot, for The AWS Report. I really enjoyed speaking with him and the finished video turned out great: David talked about his product and explained how he used AWS to...
Jul 27, 2012
We released the AWS Marketplace in late April of this year. Since that time, growth has been very strong: the number of sellers has doubled and over 75 products have been added to the catalog. Here are some other fun...
Jul 25, 2012
Analysts Randy Perry and Stephen Hendrick of IDC have just published a commissioned white paper titled The Business Value of Amazon Web Services Accelerates Over Time. You can download the paper now by clicking on the image at right. Earlier...
Jul 24, 2012
We recently made some improvements to the EC2 tab of the AWS Management Console. It is now easier to access the AWS Marketplace and to configure attached storage (EBS volumes and ephemeral storage) for EC2 instances. Marketplace Access This one...
Jul 23, 2012
Let's take a quick look at what happened in AWS-land last week: Tuesday, July 17 We reminded you to get ready to register for AWS re:Invent. The Amazon Simple Email Service now supports Simple DKIM signing. Minutes later, developer Andy...
Jul 19, 2012
A number of AWS services collect and then report various metrics to Amazon CloudWatch. The metrics are stored for two weeks and can be viewed in the AWS Management Console. They can also be used to drive alarms and notifications....
Jul 19, 2012
The Plot So Far As the applications that you build with AWS grow in scale, scope, and complexity, you haven't been shy about asking us for more locations, more features, more storage, or more speed. Modern web and mobile applications...
Jul 18, 2012
We introduced a set of EC2 instance status checks at the beginning of the year. These status checks are the results of automated tests performed by EC2 on every running instance that detect hardware and software issues. As described in...
Jul 18, 2012
Atulya Beheray of the AWS Messaging Team has written a guest post to introduce a new paper that his team has put together to show you how to use the Simple Queue Service in highly scalable fashion. -- Jeff; Amazon...
Jul 17, 2012
Earlier this year I asked you to start thinking about attending and perhaps even speaking at AWS re:Invent, our first global customer and partner conference. The conference will be held from November 27-29 at the Venetian Hotel in Las Vegas....
Jul 17, 2012
The Amazon Simple Email Service (SES) gives you the power to send bulk and transactional emails, with a focus on ease of use and deliverability. After you sign up for Amazon SES, you simply verify your domain, request production access,...
Jul 16, 2012
Let's take a quick look at what happened in AWS-land last week: Monday, July 9th We updated Elastic MapReduce with better support for AMI versioning and an updated version of Hive.. Tuesday, July 10th AWS Elastic Beanstalk is now supported...
Jul 13, 2012
The AWS Developer Productivity and tools team is responsible for making the AWS developer experience as positive and productive as possible. The team is responsible for AWS Elastic Beanstalk, AWS CloudFormation, the language-specific SDKs, tools, documentation, and the AWS Management...
Jul 11, 2012
Ok folks, this one is a mouthful, so bear with me! The Amazon Relational Database Service for SQL Server now supports the Microsoft SQL Server Database Engine Tuning Advisor. The Advisor will help you to select and create an optimal...
Jul 11, 2012
Today's guest blogger is Kai Zhao, a Product Manager on the AWS Identity and Access Management team. Kai brings word of a powerful new IAM feature. -- Jeff; Introduction In 2009, we introduced AWS Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA), a security feature...
Jul 10, 2012
We've brought AWS Elastic Beanstalk to both of the US West regions, bringing the total to five: US East (Northern Virginia) Asia Pacific (Tokyo) EU (Ireland) US West (Oregon) US West (Northern California) I have recently spent some time creating...
Jul 09, 2012
Let's take a quick look at what happened in AWS-land last week: Friday, July 6 This week AWS Marketplace added a number of new products available via Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) including Code Creator’s Moodle Cloud, ScaleOut’s StateServer, Porticor’s VPD...
Jul 07, 2012
Amazon EC2 instances within a Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) can now have multiple private or public IP addresses. This oft-requested feature builds upon several other parts of AWS including Elastic IP Addresses and Elastic Network Interfaces. Use Cases Here are...
Jul 02, 2012
Let's take a quick look at what happened in AWS-land last week: Monday, June 25 We announced that the AWS Partner Network is now live. Our friends at Netflix announced Asgard for web-clased deployment and managment of cloud resources. Tuesday,...
Jun 28, 2012
I would like to welcome eb (pronounced ee-bee) to the family of Elastic Beanstalk command line tools! Eb simplifies the development and deployment tasks from the terminal on Linux, Mac OS, and Microsoft Windows. Getting started using Elastic Beanstalk from...
Jun 27, 2012
Our friends at Netflix have embraced AWS whole-heartedly. They have shared much of what they have learned about how they use AWS to build, deploy, and host their applications. You can read the Netflix Tech Blog benefit from what they...
Jun 26, 2012
The Amazon Simple Email Service (SES) gives you the power to programmatically send bulk or transactional emails from your application. Whether you send a few messages per month or millions every day, SES is able to accommodate you with a...
Jun 25, 2012
The AWS Partner Network (APN) is now live, with three tiers and a wide variety of benefits at each tier. This is a global program, accessible to customers and partners world-wide. In addition to the official launch of APN, we...
Jun 25, 2012
Let's take a quick look at what happened in AWS-land last week: Monday, June 18 We updated the AWS SlideShare channel. All of the existing presentations have been tagged and categorized. Popular tags include Getting Started With AWS, AWS Customer...
Jun 22, 2012
The Cluster Compute Eight Extra Large (cc2.8xl) instance type is now available in our EU West (Ireland) Region. These instances are perfect for your compute and memory intensive HPC jobs. Each instance includes a pair of Intel Xeon processors, 60.5...
Jun 21, 2012
The Amazon Simple Workflow Service (SWF) is used to power highly scalable distributed systems at NASA (case study), Sage Bionetworks (case study), and a number of our other customers. In order to help you to better understand SWF, Balan Subramanian,...
Jun 20, 2012
Today, AWS CloudFormation is adding support for Amazon DynamoDB and Amazon CloudFront dynamic content. You can now describe related AWS resources such as EC2 instances, Amazon DynamoDB tables, and Amazon CloudFront distributions using CloudFormation templates. These templates can fully encapsulate...
Jun 20, 2012
The Sydney Harbor Bridge at sunset, taken on my first (and so far only) trip down under! We've just added an edge location in Sydney, Australia (number 33, to be precise) to Amazon CloudFront and Amazon Route 53. Based on...
Jun 18, 2012
Let's take a quick look at what happened in AWS-land last week: Monday, June 11 You can now run MySQL server on Amazon RDS for just $19 per month. We introduced Roles for EC2 Instances to simplify secure access to...
Jun 14, 2012
The AWS Support program just got even better! We have added features, lowered prices, and created a new free support plan that includes immediate access to customer service and technical support for AWS issues, 24 hours a day, 7 days...
Jun 13, 2012
All Your Base AWS has already given you a lot of storage and processing options to choose from, and today we are adding a really important one. You can now use Apache HBase to store and process extremely large amounts...
Jun 12, 2012
Late last week the number of objects stored in Amazon S3 reached one trillion (1,000,000,000,000 or 1012). That's 142 objects for every person on Planet Earth or 3.3 objects for every star in our Galaxy. If you could count one...
Jun 12, 2012
Today's guest blogger is Anders Samuelsson, a Senior Product Manager on the AWS Identity and Access Management team. Anders has great news for anyone who makes calls to AWS APIs using code that runs on an EC2 instance. -- Jeff;...
Jun 11, 2012
Linda Cureton, the CIO of NASA wrote a blog post to detail some of the IT reforms that are being put in to place to better serve NASA's mission and the American people. NASA has been an advocate and user...
Jun 11, 2012
I'm always happy to be able to talk about AWS options that lower costs and add flexibility for our customers. To that end, I am pleased to announce the availability of Micro instances for Amazon RDS for the MySQL database...
Jun 11, 2012
Let's take a quick look at what happened in AWS-land last week: Monday, June 4 We announced a lot of SAP news to get the week underway. I posted the latest episode of The AWS Report, featuring Rob Vandenburg, CEO...
Jun 11, 2012
Today's guest post comes to you courtesy of Spencer Dillard, Product Manager for AWS Elastic Load Balancing. -- Jeff; One of the challenges we’ve heard about many times from customers is the challenge of load balancing between tiers of an...
Jun 08, 2012
I have three exciting news items for Amazon EC2 users: You can now use Auto Scaling to place bids on the EC2 Spot Market on your behalf. Similarly, you can now place Spot Market bids from within an AWS CloudFormation...
Jun 07, 2012
I spent some time chatting with the Amazon CloudFront team to make sure that I knew what was going on. Here's an update: More PoPs and More Growth Amazon CloudFront now has 32 global PoPs (Points of Presence) with the...
Jun 06, 2012
You can now access your AWS billing data programmatically. This has been a much-requested feature and I'm confident that it will be put to good use right away. To get started, all you need to do is to provide an...
Jun 05, 2012
The Amazon Appstore for Android has a really cool Test Drive feature. It allows you to instantly try select applications through your computer browser or Android phone before you elect to install them. There's some interesting technology behind the Test...
Jun 04, 2012
Last week I interviewed Rob Vandenberg, CEO of Utah-based Lingotek. We have split the interview into two parts to make it easier to watch: Part 1 Part 2 Would you like to be a guest on a future episode of...
Jun 04, 2012
Last week one of my colleagues stopped me in the hall and said "Jeff, you have to tell our customers about all of the great work that we are doing with SAP." I asked him for some details and he...
Jun 04, 2012
Let's take a quick look at what happened in AWS-land last week: Monday, May 28 We celebrated Memorial Day in the US! Tuesday, May 29 We enabled the use of Oracle Enterprise Manager (OEM) for Oracle DB Instances. Wednesday, May...
May 30, 2012
Users of Amazon RDS for Oracle Database now have access to Oracle Enterprise Manager 11g Database Control, also known as OEM. Starting today, you can enable OEM and use it to manage your RDS for Oracle DB instances with just...
May 29, 2012
As you can tell by looking at the AWS Security and Compliance Center, we take security seriously. You can find information about our certifications and accreditations in the center, along with links to four security white papers. I would also...
May 25, 2012
The AWS VM Import service gives you the ability to import virtual machines in a variety of formats into Amazon EC2, allowing you to easily migrate from your on-premises virtualization infrastructure to the AWS Cloud. Today we are adding the...
May 24, 2012
In today's episode I interview Dave Ward of the EC2 Spot Instance team: Dave describes the Spot Instance concept in detail; I hope it will inspire you to think of ways to use them in your own AWS applications. Stay...
May 22, 2012
You can now view and modify the contents of your DynamoDB tables from within the AWS Management Console. With the addition of this new feature, you can learn by doing -- trying out a number of DynamoDB features without even...
May 21, 2012
Let's take a quick look at what happened in AWS-land last week: Monday, May 21 AWS customer Pinterest released an architecture update, reviewing their use of EC2 and S3 to scale up and scale down daily to cope with variable...
May 21, 2012
Let's take a quick look at what happened in AWS-land last week: Monday, May 14 We created a new Twitter account for AWS Marketplace. In conjunction with NVIDIA, we announced the GPU Test Drive. Adobe announced that their CQ Cloud...
May 18, 2012
You can now manage the listeners, SSL certificates, and SSL ciphers for an existing Elastic Load Balancer from within the AWS Management Console. This enhancement makes it even easier to get started with Elastic Load Balancing and simpler to maintain...
May 18, 2012
You can now launch Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) MySQL Read Replicas inside of a Virtual Private Cloud (VPC). Amazon RDS removes the headaches of running a relational database reliably at scale, allowing Amazon RDS customers to focus on innovation...
May 17, 2012
Categorization is one of the more popular use cases for the Amazon Mechanical Turk. A categorization HIT (Human Intelligence Task) asks the Worker to select from a list of options. Our customers use HITs of this type to assign product...
May 17, 2012
Today we are expanding the availability of AWS Elastic Beanstalk to the EU (Ireland) region. This comes hot on the heels of our recent announcement of .NET support and our launch in Japan, and gives you the ability to choose...
May 15, 2012
The Amazon Simple Email Service (SES) makes it easy and cost-effective for you to send bulk or transactional email messages. As I described in my introductory post (Introducing the Amazon Simple Email Service), you must verify the email address (or...
May 15, 2012
There are a lot of storage options available to AWS users -- Amazon S3, Elastic Block Storage, and the AWS Storage Gateway, along with ancillary services such as Amazon CloudFront for content distribution, AWS Direct Connect for dedicated network connections,...
May 14, 2012
Let's take a quick look at what happened in AWS-land last week: Monday, May 7 We released the EC2 VM Import Connector for VMware vCenter version 1.2.0. Tuesday, May 8 The Relational Database Service now supports SQL Server. You can...
May 14, 2012
Introduction Amazon CloudFront's network of edge locations (currently 30, with more in the works) gives you the ability to distribute static and streaming content to your users at high speed with low latency. Today we are introducing a set of...
May 11, 2012
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May 11, 2012
Introduction Because the AWS Cloud operates on a pay-as-you-go model, your monthly bill will reflect your actual usage. In situations where your overall consumption can vary from hour to hour, it is always a good idea to log in to...
May 10, 2012
We have added two new features to the AWS Storage Gateway: a powerful set of APIs and support for AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM). AWS Storage Gateway APIs Up until now, the AWS Storage Gateway was configurable through the...
May 09, 2012
Executive Summary Block off November 27-29 on your calendar, book a flight to Las Vegas, and plan to spend three days at AWS re: Invent learning more about AWS from AWS engineers, architects, partners, and customers in over 100 sessions....
May 08, 2012
We are continuing to simplify the Windows development experience on AWS, and today we are excited to announce Amazon RDS for SQL Server and .NET support for AWS Elastic Beanstalk. Amazon RDS takes care of the tedious aspects of deploying,...
May 07, 2012
Let's take a quick look at what happened in AWS-land last week: Monday, April 30 Nature Magazine published a detailed article on the 1000 Genomes Project. Per the supplemental note, this data (all 260 TB) is available in Amazon S3....
May 04, 2012
As you might know, you can use official Windows AMIs (Amazon Machine Images) to launch Amazon EC2 instances with Microsoft SQL Server, inside or outside a VPC (Virtual Private Cloud). Many customers are taking advantage of this possibility to run...
May 03, 2012
The Multi-AZ (Availability Zone) feature of the Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) replicates database updates across two Availability Zones to increase durability and availability. Amazon RDS will automatically fail over to the standby for planned maintenance and unplanned disruptions: This...
Apr 30, 2012
Let's take a quick look at what happened in AWS-land last week: Monday, April 23 We announced that AWS Elastic Beanstalk is now available in our Asia Pacific (Tokyo) Region. Tuesday, April 24 We announced that Amazon DynamoDB is now...
Apr 27, 2012
Jeremy Lindblom of the AWS Developer Services team put together the following guest post to show PHP developers how to store session data in Amazon DynamoDB. -- Jeff; The DynamoDB Session Handler is a new feature of the AWS SDK...
Apr 26, 2012
The AWS team has been at Bio-IT World in Boston this week, hearing from a range of scientists, academics and industry folks about how they are using the cloud to store, process and collaborate around the large volumes of data...
Apr 26, 2012
In today's episode I interview Saad Ladki of the AWS Elastic Beanstalk team: In the video, Saad describes Elastic Beanstalk and talks about the ways in which our customers are putting it to use. I hope that you enjoy it!...
Apr 26, 2012
My friends over at Drobo recently let me know about a pair of additions to their product lineup. Taken together, they give you a lot of additional data storage, backup, and retrieval flexibility. If you don't know, a Drobo is...
Apr 25, 2012
AWS CloudFormation lets you describe stacks of related AWS resources (EC2 instances, Elastic IP addresses, RDS DB Instances, and much more) using a template. The template can include runtime parameters, allowing you to customize each stack as you create it....
Apr 25, 2012
Effectively immediately, Amazon DynamoDB is available in three additional AWS Regions. Here's the complete list: US East (Northern Virginia) EU (Ireland) Asia Pacific (Tokyo) US West (Northern California) - New US West (Oregon) - New Asia Pacific (Singapore) - New...
Apr 24, 2012
Saad from the Elastic Beanstalk team has some great news! -- Jeff; Today we are expanding the availability of AWS Elastic Beanstalk to the Asia Pacific (Tokyo) region. Developers can now leverage the service in both the Asia Pacific (Tokyo)...
Apr 23, 2012
I spent a week of vacation offline and managed to avoid email, web sites, and news feeds for the vast majority of the time. Now that I'm back, I thought I'd ease my way back in to blogging with a...
Apr 19, 2012
Dave Lang of the Amazon DynamoDB team is back with another guest post! -- Jeff; In January we launched Amazon DynamoDB, our high scale, low latency, fully-managed NoSQL database service. Since our launch, one of the most frequent requests we’ve...
Apr 19, 2012
Using the new AWS Marketplace, you can easily find, compare, and start using an array of software systems and products. We've streamlined the discovery, deployment, and billing steps to make the entire process of finding and buying software quick, painless,...
Apr 18, 2012
When I joined AWS almost six years ago, I had the opportunity to work with one of the partners who built S3Fox Organizer - the cool Firefox plugin for Amazon S3. Back then, we had just launched Amazon S3 and...
Apr 16, 2012
A quick look at the AWS Job List will tell you that the AWS team is hiring Software Development Engineers & Managers, Software Testing Engineers/Managers, Product Managers & Marketing Managers,Developer Support Engineers, Technical Program Managers, Sales Representatives, and Business Development...
Apr 16, 2012
Customers are using the AWS cloud to work with data of all shapes and sizes, whether that's recommending restaurants, or providing situation awareness for robots. Analytics-based workflows like these are a great fit for the utility, elastic model of the...
Apr 13, 2012
We have just published the Microsoft SharePoint Server on AWS Reference Architecture White Paper. This white paper discusses general concepts regarding how to use SharePoint services on AWS and provides detailed technical guidance on how to configure, deploy, and run...
Apr 12, 2012
Continuing along in our quest to give you the tools that you need to build ridiculously powerful web sites and applications in no time flat at the lowest possible cost, I'd like to introduce you to Amazon CloudSearch. If you...
Apr 11, 2012
AWS documentation is now available on the Kindle - if this is all you need to know, start here and you'll have access to the new documents in seconds. I "purchased" (the actual cost is $0.00) the EC2 Getting Started...
Apr 10, 2012
Recently our CTO Werner Vogels had a great conversation with Troy Otillio from Intuit and Jack Murgia from Edmodo. These innovators are using Amazon RDS to free up their time to focus on what’s important to them – building value...
Apr 10, 2012
Our friends at CloudSpokes ran a challenge with the goal of creating some awesome demos for Amazon DynamoDB. The challenge is now complete and they have taken the time to write a guest post to share the results with the...
Apr 10, 2012
Today we have a blog post from Chris Whitaker of the AWS CloudFormation team. Chris brings word of an important new CloudFormation feature, the ability to evolve a running stack by incrementally adding or removing resource definitions from the template....
Apr 06, 2012
Amazon ElastiCache makes it easy for you to deploy, scale, and run a cloud-based in-memory cache that is protocol-compliant with Memcached. ElastiCache improves the performance of web applications and reduces the load on your databases by retrieving data from a...
Apr 06, 2012
G’day! I’m Joseph Ziegler and I’m excited to tell everybody I am the new Technology Evangelist for Australia and New Zealand! I grew up in Texas but most of my professional career was based in Silicon Valley and then later...
Apr 06, 2012
At the end of the first quarter of 2012, there were 905 billion objects in Amazon S3. We routinely handle 650,000 requests per second for those objects with occasional peaks substantially above that number. Here is the latest chart: The...
Apr 05, 2012
Today’s guest blogger is Dave Lang, Product Manager of the DynamoDB team, who has a great list of tools and SDKs that will allow you to use DynamoDB from just about any language or environment. -- Jeff; Since its launch...
Apr 02, 2012
I am pleased as punch (whatever that means) to share the first episode of The AWS Report with you! In the inaugural episode, I interview Rob Frederick, Co-founder and CEO of Seattle-based Gripwire: Future episodes will feature interviews with members...
Apr 02, 2012
Nihar from the CloudFront team is back, with another live streaming option for Amazon CloudFront! -- Jeff; Flexibility is one of the key benefits you get with AWS – you can use our services either stand-alone or together in a...
Apr 01, 2012
Let's face it. Sometimes you just need a local server. Perhaps your office is too cold, or you have the urge to pull the cover off and reseat the memory. Or, you might have some data on floppy disks that...
Mar 30, 2012
We have received tremendous positive feedback from customers and partners since we launched Amazon DynamoDB two months ago. Amazon DynamoDB enables customers to offload the administrative burden of operating and scaling a highly available distributed database cluster while only paying...
Mar 30, 2012
Today, Nihar Bihani of the Amazon CloudFront team is back again, with another guest post. -- Jeff; Today, I’d like to tell you about two different ways we’ve improved our live streaming solution. But before I dive into what’s changing,...
Mar 30, 2012
Pavel Safronov, a developer on our SDK and Tools team, sent the following guest post my way! -- Jeff; The AWS SDK for .NET provides a simple client for our new service, Amazon DynamoDB. This client gives you a straight-forward...
Mar 29, 2012
We're very pleased to welcome the 1000 Genomes Project data to Amazon S3. The original human genome project was a huge undertaking. It aimed to identify every letter of our genetic code, 3 billion DNA bases in total, to help...
Mar 28, 2012
We've just released version 2012.03 of the Amazon Linux AMI. Coming six months after our previous major release, this version of the AMI is loaded with new features that EC2 users will enjoy. One of our goals for this release...
Mar 28, 2012
AWS Direct Connect has grown to six locations worldwide since our initial launch in August 2011. Customers are using it to work with large data sets, power applications that use real-time data feeds and build hybrid environments that integrate AWS...
Mar 27, 2012
There's a new coding challenge on CloudSpokes with a top prize of $2000 and other prizes ranging from $1000 to $100. The goal: Create tools to help more people to make use of Amazon EC2 Spot Instances! This is an...
Mar 23, 2012
We’ve received great feedback from customers on the recent AWS price reductions. I’ve personally received a number of great stories from customers who are using AWS to reduce the cost of running their business. We’ve written up two of these...
Mar 22, 2012
The Amazon Web Services are now available in an ever-expanding series of locations. You've asked us to make it easier to build applications that span multiple AWS regions and we are happy to oblige. Today I'm pleased to announce that...
Mar 21, 2012
A few days ago we launched a simple, yet very important new feature on our AWS website: the self-service AWS AMI catalog. As you know, AMIs are disk images that contain a pre-configured operating system and virtual application software, and...
Mar 21, 2012
I'm pleased to be able to tell you that AWS Elastic Beanstalk now supports PHP and Git deployment. Elastic Beanstalk and PHP AWS Elastic Beanstalk makes it easy for you to quickly deploy and manage applications in the AWS cloud....
Mar 20, 2012
We held our first-ever AWS Summit in New York in early 2011 (I snapped the picture at right before the audience filed in for the keynote). Due to the great response we received the first time, we're doing it again,...
Mar 20, 2012
The automated backup feature allows our customers to back up and restore their Relational Database Service (RDS) DB Instances. You can simply choose a non-zero backup retention period from the AWS Management Console: After fielding a number of customer requests,...
Mar 19, 2012
We've put together a pair of new Getting Started Guides for Linux and Microsoft Windows. Both guides will show you how to use EC2, Elastic Load Balancing, Auto Scaling, and CloudWatch to host a web application. The Linux version of...
Mar 19, 2012
Backup and Recover On March 29th I'll be covering the topic of backup and recovery of on-premise and cloud-based Linux systems. I'll cover a number of topics including creation of file archives, uploading to Amazon S3, and managing permissions and...
Mar 16, 2012
I'm pleased to announce that the AWS Storage Gateway is now available in our South America (São Paulo) Region. The AWS Storage Gateway service connects an on-premises software appliance with cloud-based storage to integrate your existing on-premises applications with the...
Mar 13, 2012
We’ve gotten great feedback on the EC2 Instance Status checks that we introduced back in January. As I said at the time, we expect to add more of these checks throughout the year. Our goal is to get you the...
Mar 09, 2012
We are excited to announce that we have added several new AWS Identity Access and Management (IAM) features aimed at providing you more flexibility and control when managing your IAM users. With today’s launch you can now: Grant your IAM...
Mar 08, 2012
Big News I have three important announcements for EC2 users: We have introduced a new instance type, the Medium (m1.medium). You can now launch 64-bit operating systems on the m1.small and c1.medium instances. You can now log in to an...
Mar 08, 2012
The Amazon CloudWatch team has just released new sample scripts for monitoring memory and disk space usage on your Amazon EC2 instances running Linux. You can run these scripts on your instances and configure them to report memory and disk...
Mar 07, 2012
We launched Amazon DynamoDB in the US East (Northern Virginia) Region less than two months ago. At that time we committed to making it available in additional Regions as quickly as possible. I was in Japan last week for the...
Mar 07, 2012
Today's guest post comes to you from Saad Ladki, Product Manager for AWS Elastic Beanstalk. -- Jeff; We are excited to announce that AWS Elastic Beanstalk now supports resource permissions through AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM). AWS Elastic Beanstalk...
Mar 06, 2012
We like to distinguish our Cluster Compute instances from the other instance types by providing details about the actual processor (CPU) inside. When we launched the CC2 (Cluster Compute Eight Extra Large) instance type last year we were less specific...
Mar 06, 2012
Today's guest post is brought to you by Doug Grismore, Director of Storage Operations for AWS. Doug has some useful performance tips and tricks that will help you to get the best possible performance from Amazon S3. There's also information...
Mar 06, 2012
AWS works hard to lower our costs so that we can pass those savings back to our customers. We look to reduce hardware costs, improve operational efficiencies, lower power consumption and innovate in many other areas of our business so...
Feb 27, 2012
Focus on Scalability & Cloud Architectures
The Plat_Forms contest has been around in Germany since 2007. Its hallmark is celebrating the diversity and strength of various development languages (Java EE, .NET, PHP, Perl, Python, Ruby, etc.). This year, the focus of the contest is entirely on cloud computing and scalability. Ulrich Stärk, the program organizer, explained “AWS is technology agnostic, thus allowing for a fair comparison of the individual platforms. Apart from that, AWS is the market leader in IaaS services, thus making a perfect choice for us since we can expect that a lot of developers have either used AWS already or are interested in trying it now.”
Feb 22, 2012
Today's guest blogger Rahul Pathak, a Senior Product Manager on the AWS Database Team. Rahul has some news to share. -- Jeff; Amazon ElastiCache is now available in two additional Regions: US West (Oregon) and South America (Sao Paulo). Caching...
Feb 22, 2012
Simple Workflow Today we are introducing the Amazon Simple Workflow service, SWF for short. This new service gives you the ability to build and run distributed, fault-tolerant applications that span multiple systems (cloud-based, on-premise, or both). Amazon Simple Workflow coordinates...
Feb 21, 2012
Esri is a leading provider of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) software and geo-database management applications. Their powerful mapping solutions have been used by Governments, industry, academics, and NGOs for nearly 30 years (read their history to learn more). Over the...
Feb 16, 2012
Our application relies on accurately analyzing client event logs (as opposed to web logs) to extract trends and enable other rich features for our users. To give you a sense of the scale at which we run these analyses, we literally go through millions of events per hour, which translates to as many as 250+ Amazon Elastic MapReduce nodes on any given day. Since we are dealing with event logs, generated by our users from the various platforms on which they access our app (Android, iPhone, iPad, etc.), our logs grow in proportion to our user base.
Feb 12, 2012
Earlier today, GigaOM published a cost comparison of self-hosting vs. hosting on AWS. I wanted to bring to your attention a few quick issues that we saw with this analysis: Lower Costs in Other AWS Regions - The comparison used...
Feb 07, 2012
As you can tell from my recent post on Amazon S3 Growth for 2011, our customers are uploading new objects to Amazon S3 at an incredible rate. We continue to innovate on your behalf to drive down storage costs and...
Feb 06, 2012
We launched Amazon DynamoDB with a live video feed that was very well-attended. If you didn't get a chance to watch at the time, you can do so now: You may also enjoy this short video featuring Werner Vogels, James...
Feb 03, 2012
Looking Back In 2011 we added a total of seven edge locations to Amazon CloudFront and Route 53. We also added lots of new features, as I documented last year. Looking Forward Our newest edge locations are located in Milan,...
Jan 31, 2012
Today's guest blogger is Adam Gray. Adam is a Product Manager on the Elastic MapReduce Team. -- Jeff; We’re always excited when we can bring features to our customers that make it easier for them to derive value from their...
Jan 31, 2012
As of the end of 2011, there are 762 billion (762,000,000,000) objects in Amazon S3. We process over 500,000 requests per second for these objects at peak times. Here's the annual growth chart: This represents year-over-year growth of 192%; S3...
Jan 30, 2012
We have added two new benefits to the Gold and Platinum levels of AWS Premium Support. The following features are now in beta testing: We now offer third-party support for popular operating systems running on Amazon EC2. We also support...
Jan 27, 2012
You can now add up to 10 tags to any of your Auto Scaling Groups. You can also, if you'd like, propagate the tags to the EC2 instances launched from your groups. Adding tags to your Auto Scaling groups will...
Jan 26, 2012
Today's guest blogger is Adam Gray. Adam is a Product Manager on the Elastic MapReduce Team. -- Jeff; Apache Hadoop and NoSQL databases are complementary technologies that together provide a powerful toolbox for managing, analyzing, and monetizing Big Data. That’s...
Jan 25, 2012
Warning: If you don't have a data center, or if all of your IT infrastructure is already in the cloud, you may not need to read this post! But feel free to pass it along to your friends and colleagues....
Jan 25, 2012
You can now launch Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) DB instances inside of a Virtual Private Cloud (VPC). Some Background The Relational Database Service takes care of all of the messiness associated with running a relational database. You don't have...
Jan 20, 2012
The AWS Toolkit for Eclipse and and the AWS Toolkit for Visual Studio now support Amazon DynamoDB.You can create tables, insert and edit data, initiate table scans, and more. Here are some screen shots from the AWS Toolkit for Visual...
Jan 20, 2012
In August, we announced that AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) added support for Identity Federation. This enabled customers to use their existing identities (e.g. users) to securely access AWS APIs and resources using IAM's fine-grained access controls, without the...
Jan 20, 2012
Today's guest blogger is Nihar Bihani, a Product Manager on the Amazon CloudFront team. -- Jeff; After we launched Amazon CloudFront in November 2008, customers began asking for a way to block access to their content being delivered. We heard...
Jan 18, 2012
We want to make it very easy for you to be able to store any amount of semistructured data and to be able to read, write, and modify it quickly, efficiently, and with predictable performance. We don't want you to...
Jan 16, 2012
The AWS Free Usage Tier now allows you to run Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 on an EC2 t1.micro instance for up to 750 hours per month. This benefit is open to new AWS customers and to those who are...
Jan 10, 2012
AWS Direct Connect lets you create a dedicated network connection between your office, data center, or colocation facility to an AWS Region. You might want to do this for privacy, to reduce your network costs, or to get a more...
Jan 09, 2012
Hot on the heels of our announcement of Additional Reserved Instance Options for Amazon EC2, I would like to tell you about a similar option for the Amazon Relational Database Service. We have added Light and Heavy Utilization Reserved Instances...
Jan 07, 2012
Instance Status Checks You may remember that we recently introduced EC2 Instance Status Monitoring features to give you better visibility into the status of your AWS resources. We began by providing you with information about operational activities that have been...
Jan 04, 2012
We've seen a few questions lately about how to work with collections of resources in the SDK for Ruby, so I'd like to take a moment to explain some of the common patterns and how to use them. There are many different kinds of collections in the SDK. To keep thing simple, I'll focus on Amazon EC2, but most of what you'll see here applies to other service interfaces as well.
Jan 04, 2012
We are staffing up a brand-new AWS team to take advantage of some really interesting opportunities in the digital media space. This team is being launched from an existing product. This particular product has seen exponential growth in the size...
Jan 03, 2012
We know that developers want to call the AWS APIs from many different languages. Over the last couple of years we have created and delivered SDKs for Java, PHP, .NET, and Ruby. We have also done the same for the...
Dec 29, 2011
We have added two new features to Amazon SNS to give you additional control over the content and delivery of your messages. As a brief reminder, SNS allows you to create named Topics, subscribe to Topics (with delivery via email,...
Dec 28, 2011
Amazon S3 is a great way to store files for the short or for the long term. If you use S3 to store log files or other files that have a limited lifetime, you probably had to build some sort...
Dec 22, 2011
If you look closely at the services and facilities provided by AWS, you'll see that we've chosen to factor architectural components that were once considered elemental (e.g. a server) into multiple discrete parts that you can instantiate and control individually....
Dec 20, 2011
We've added some features to the AWS Management Console to make it easier for you to create, view, and manage your Amazon CloudWatch Alarms. Here's a visual overview. Creating Alarms You can now create a new CloudWatch alarm from the...
Dec 16, 2011
The AWS team is growing rapidly and we're all doing our best to find, interview, and hire the best people for each job. In order to do my part to grow our team, I started to list the most interesting...
Dec 16, 2011
Tonight we have a post written by a guest blogger! Alex Dunlap is a Senior Manager on the AWS Team, responsible for Product Management for Amazon CloudFront and Amazon Route 53. Take it away, Alex... -- Jeff; Jeff reached out...
Dec 15, 2011
With the paint barely dry on our US West (Oregon) Region, we are now ready to expand again. This time we are going South of the Equator, to Sao Paulo, Brazil. With the opening of this new Region, AWS customers...
Dec 14, 2011
We have added an SMTP interface to the Amazon Simple Email Service (SES) to make it even easier for you to send transactional or bulk email. We've had a lot of requests for this feature and I am confident that...
Dec 08, 2011
Amazon S3's new Multi-Object Delete gives you the ability to delete up to 1000 objects from an S3 bucket with a single request. If you are planning to delete large numbers of objects from S3 then you can quickly do...
Dec 06, 2011
Here is what we have on the calendar for December, 2011: Webinars: December 8 - Getting Started with Windows on AWS - 9:00 AM EST December 14 - How Enterprises are Using the AWS Cloud Today - 10:00 AM December...
Dec 06, 2011
We have added three more Amazon CloudFront / Route 53 edge locations, bringing the total number of global locations to 24. The new locations are in New York, Indiana, and San Jose, California. The AWS Global Infrastructure map includes a...
Dec 05, 2011
I've got lots of Amazon ElastiCache news for you today! We've enabled ElastiCache in four additional AWS Regions and we have also added AWS CloudFormation support. New Regions We launched ElastiCache back in August (read my blog post to learn...
Dec 02, 2011
Cloud Computing has shifted the focus more than ever to architecture of an application. In order to get the maximum benefit of on-demand infrastructure, it is important to invest time in your architectures. A diagram is worth a thousand words....
Dec 02, 2011
If you have watched the cavalcade of AWS releases over the last couple of years, you may have noticed an interesting pattern. We generally release a new service or a major new feature with a model or an architecture that...
Nov 29, 2011
Amazon CloudFront has been a big hit. We're adding customers, locations, and features at a rapid clip. Let's take a look at what's been going on. Lots of Customers We now have over 20,000 active* CloudFront customers; this is double...
Nov 22, 2011
The popular AWS Elastic Load Balancing Feature is now available within the Virtual Private Cloud (VPC). Features such as SSL termination, health checks, sticky sessions and CloudWatch monitoring can be configured from the AWS Management Console, the command line, or...
Nov 21, 2011
We're going to be running a free webinar on December 8th at 9 AM PST. Designed for business and technical decision makers with an interest in migrating Windows Server and Windows Server applications to the AWS cloud, the webinar will...
Nov 17, 2011
We have been hard at work on a set of features to help you (and the AWS management tools that you use) have better visibility into the status of your AWS resources. We will be releasing this functionality in stages,...
Nov 17, 2011
The AWS Management Console now includes complete support for Amazon Route 53. You can now create your hosted zones and set up the appropriate records (A, CNAME, MX, and so forth) in a convenient visual environment. Let's walk through the...
Nov 15, 2011
You no longer need to build your own compute cluster in order to tackle your High Performance Computing (HPC) projects. By launching cloud-based compute instances on an as-needed basis, you can avoid waiting in lengthy queues for limited access to...
Nov 09, 2011
We have just opened up another AWS Region! This one is located in the Pacific Northwest area of the United States, in the beautiful state of Oregon, and offers low-cost, low-latency access to our services from the Western portion of...
Nov 08, 2011
Here's what we have in store for November: Webinars: November 1 - Provide details of CloudFormation - 5:00 PM November 9 - Provide details of Virtual Private Cloud - 5:00 PM November 16 - Provide details of Relational Database Services...
Nov 04, 2011
Here’s a quick quiz: What does a social gaming site for young women have in common with a cancer research app? Not sure? Then how about this: What does a mobile video app have in common with a car sharing...
Nov 03, 2011
Today we are adding another transport protocol to the Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS). You can now subscribe a US phone number to an SNS topic. After the subscription has been confirmed, notifications sent to the topic will be delivered...
Nov 02, 2011
As you might already know, you can enable AWS Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA for short) for your AWS account and your Identity and Access Management (IAM) users to provide an additional level of security. Once you have enabled MFA for an...
Oct 28, 2011
Disaster recovery (DR) is one of most important use cases that we hear from our customers. Having your own DR site in the cloud ready and on standby, without having to pay for the hardware, power, bandwidth, cooling, space and...
Oct 27, 2011
The Amazon Simple Email Service gives you a simple and cost-effective way to send any volume of bulk or transactional email. We send millions of emails on behalf of thousands of Amazon SES customers each and every day. You can...
Oct 27, 2011
We have made some improvements to our Elastic Load Balancing product: IPv6 is now supported in the Asia Pacific (Singapore) and Asia Pacific (Tokyo) regions. Each Elastic Load Balancer reports six new metrics to Amazon CloudWatch. The DNS entry associated...
Oct 24, 2011
It is a great time to be a software developer with an entrepreneurial mindset. You can get access to development tools, startup resources, and much more at no charge or at a very low cost these days. You don't need...
Oct 21, 2011
Matt Gerber,CEO of managed service provider IT-Lifeline spent some time talking about AWS on camera. Here's the full video: Matt enumerates the three main benefits that AWS provides him: cost, elasticity, and time to market (sometimes saving 6 months to...
Oct 21, 2011
Microsoft SQL Server 2012 (code named "Denali") has a lot of really intriguing features including high availability, columnstore indexes, self-service Business Intelligence, faster full-text search, data visualization, and improved security and compliance. Consult the feature guide for more information. In...
Oct 21, 2011
We have added some nice new features to the Simple Queue Service. You can now use batch operations to send and delete messages with greater efficiency and at a lower cost. You can make any of your queues into a...
Oct 17, 2011
Due to an overwhelming response, the live registration for tomorrow's AWS GovCloud Summit has been closed. We will be streaming the entire event and I invite you to sign up now. The event will feature keynote addresses by GSA CIO...
Oct 12, 2011
Over the past two months, we have had the opportunity to share several exciting developments regarding Spot Instances. We have told you how to Run Amazon Elastic MapReduce on EC2 Spot Instances, we published Four New Amazon EC2 Spot Instance...
Oct 10, 2011
Are you thinking about kicking off a lean startup and wondering what the buzz is all about? In his new book, The Lean Startup, author and entrepreneur Eric Ries (co-founder of IMVU) outlines key principles of the ideal lean startup:...
Oct 07, 2011
The AWS Management Console now supports the Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS). You can create, inspect, and modify queues. You can post new messages to queues and you can peek at the messages in the queues. Here is a tour:...
Oct 06, 2011
You can now create custom IAM (Identity and Access Management) policy documents from the IAM tab of the AWS Management Console. You can use a custom policy document to gain access to a number of advanced IAM features such as...
Oct 05, 2011
A lot of technical tasks that seem simple in theory are often very complex to implement. For example, let's say that you want to encrypt all of the data that you store in Amazon S3. You need to choose an...
Oct 05, 2011
Our customers continue to make very heavy use of Amazon S3. We now process up to 370,000 S3 requests per second. Many of these are PUT requests, representing new data that is flowing in to S3. As of the end...
Oct 03, 2011
We've created three new documents to make it even easier for you to get started with AWS: The first two documents (Getting Started Guide: AWS Web Application Hosting for Linux and Getting Started Guide: AWS Web Application Hosting for Microsoft...
Oct 03, 2011
This is what we have on our calendars for October: Webinars: October 4 - Demystifyng the Cloud - 11:00 AM October 5 - Provide details of CloudFront & Route 53 - 5:00 PM October 11 - Setting up your first...
Sep 30, 2011
I've been making a point of telling my live audiences about AWS CloudFormation lately. Many large-scale AWS customers are starting to appreciate the fact that they can describe and instantiate entire application stacks using parameterized templates (see my original CloudFormation...
Sep 30, 2011
We've just added an edge location in Brazil (number 20 to be precise) to Amazon CloudFront and Amazon Route 53. This is our first edge location in South America. The new location will speed up references to static and streamed...
Sep 28, 2011
I'll be running a Big Data Hackathon at the SPLASH/OOPSLA Conference in Portland, Oregon next month. Hackathons are participatory event. You don't show up to watch or to hang out; you show up to lead or to join a team...
Sep 27, 2011
I never get tired of writing posts that announce price decreases on the various AWS services! Today, we are reducing the price to host a set of DNS records for a domain (which we call a hosted zone) using Amazon...
Sep 26, 2011
We introduced the Amazon Linux AMI in beta form about a year ago with the goal of providing a simple, stable, and secure Linux environment for server-focused workloads. We've been really happy with the adoption we've seen so far, and...
Sep 25, 2011
Today, I am speaking with Stuart Hall, CTO of Filter Squad, a lean startup, and creator of, among others, the Discovr App and Discovr Music for the iPhone & iPad.
Sep 22, 2011
We crunched some numbers and found out that 70% of the 50 most Facebook apps leverage one or more AWS services. Many of their developers rely on AWS to provide them with compute, network, storage, database and messaging services on a pay-as-you-go basis. In addition to Zynga’s popular FarmVille and CafeWorld, Playfish and Wooga, many of the most exciting and popular Facebook apps are also running on AWS. Here are some examples: RootMusic, Funzio, and 50Cubes.
Sep 22, 2011
Within Amazon, we often use the phrase "drinking our own champagne" to describe our practice of using our own products and services to prove them out under actual working conditions. We build products that we can use ourselves. We believe...
Sep 21, 2011
Do you use EC2 Spot Instances in your application? Do you understand how they work and how they can save you a lot of money? If you answered no to any of these questions, then you are behind the times...
Sep 21, 2011
Over the summer months, we'd like to share a few stories from startups around the world: what are they working on and how they are using the cloud to get things done. Today I’m speaking to Jonathan and Thomas, two...
Sep 21, 2011
We've made two important updates to Amazon RDS for Oracle Database: A new minor version (containing some critical security fixes) is now available. Additional access privileges are now available (via the new minor version) to applications. New Minor Version Oracle...
Sep 20, 2011
About ShowNearby
ShowNearby is a leading location-based service in Singapore and an early adopter of the Android platform. Unlike many mobile apps out there, ShowNearby started with deployment on Android and then moved on to the iPhone by mid 2010 and Blackberry by fall of 2010. Today, the ShowNearby flagship app is available on Android, iPhone and Blackberry and reports approximately 100 Million mobile searches conducted across all its platforms.
I spoke to Stephen Bylo, Senior Cloud Architect at ShowNearby, who added a bit of color to the experience of running, planning, and meeting the requirements of a popular mobile app. If you're not from Singapore and would like to see the app, here's a quick video demo of ShowNearby.
Sep 19, 2011
You can now run Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 on the EC2 Cluster Compute and Cluster GPU instances using new Windows 2008 R2 and Windows 2008 R2 SQL Server AMIs. To reiterate, here are the specs for these compute-intensive instance...
Sep 16, 2011
Although Summer is starting to ebb into Autumn in the northern hemisphere, it's just getting going south of the equator, so there is still time to profile another start-up in our on-going series of profiles! Introducing Mendeley Today I'm very...
Sep 15, 2011
Our compliance team has been working non-stop to make sure that AWS qualifies for and receives a number of important certifications and accreditations. In the last year or so I have blogged about SAS 70 Type II, FISMA Low, and...
Sep 14, 2011
Over the summer months, we'd like to share a few stories from startups around the world: what are they working on and how they are using the cloud to get things done. Today, we're profiling Classle, from Chennai, India! I...
Sep 13, 2011
We are hosting an AWS Media and Entertainment Summit at the Sofitel hotel in Los Angeles in early October.This half-day event will give you the information that you need to use AWS on your own cloud computing projects. We've put...
Sep 09, 2011
We're very excited to announce this year's AWS Start-up Challenge VC judges: Accel Partners, Andreessen Horowitz (A16Z), Draper Fisher Jurvetson (DFJ), Madrona Venture Group, NEA, and Sequoia ! Representatives from all these firms will be present at our final event...
Sep 09, 2011
Here's what we are doing this month in AWS-land: Webinars: September 7 - Introducing AWS GovCloud (US) - 1:00 PM EST September 13 - Microsoft License Mobility for Windows Server Applications on the AWS Cloud - 9:00 AM PST September...
Sep 09, 2011
If you are the kind of developer who likes to live in your IDE, you'll really appreciate the new AWS Toolkit for Visual Studio. We've provided you with enough power and control to allow you to develop, test, deploy, and...
Sep 08, 2011
We introduced AWS Direct Connect last month and invited AWS users with a need for a dedicated network connection to the US East (Northern Virginia) Region to give it a try. The service is geared for those who have big...
Sep 08, 2011
I will be keynoting an Amazon Technology Open House at our South Lake Union offices on October 4, 2011. You'll have the opportunity to meet and to hang out with the leaders of the various AWS services, learn about recent...
Sep 08, 2011
We have updated the AWS SDK for iOS and the AWS SDK for Android to make it easier for you to build applications that need to make calls to AWS using your AWS credentials. Until now, your AWS credentials would...
Sep 07, 2011
Do you have an idea for a cool and powerful Android application that can make use of one or more AWS services (preferably using the AWS SDK for Android)? If so, now is the time to design and code the...
Sep 06, 2011
The AWS team is growing by leaps and bounds. Existing teams are expanding, new teams are being formed, and we're pushing into new territories. There are so many jobs that our official job site can be a bit difficult to...
Sep 02, 2011
We have added three new features to the Amazon S3 tab of the AWS Management Console: Easier Access - You no longer need to install Adobe Flash or provide outbound access to port 843 on your network in order to...
Sep 01, 2011
Last night I delivered the following presentation to the Seattle AWS User Group to review and summarize some of the additions we've made to AWS over the last couple of quarters: AWS Q3 2011 Update - Seattle AWS User Group...
Sep 01, 2011
Over the summer months, we'd like to share a few stories from startups around the world: what are they working on and how they are using the cloud to get things done. Today, we're profiling one of last year's finalists from the AWS Start-up Challenge - TellApart, from Burlingame, California!
Aug 31, 2011
We've added some additional flexibility to Amazon EC2's Elastic Load Balancing feature: You can now terminate SSL sessions at the load balancer and then re-encrypt them before they are sent to the back-end EC2 instances. You can now configure the...
Aug 26, 2011
Over the summer months, we'd like to share a few stories from startups around the world: what are they working on and how they are using the cloud to get things done. Today, we're profiling Appscend, from Bucharest, Romania!
Aug 25, 2011
I woke up today and realized that today is the 5th anniversary of launch of Amazon EC2. I published the initial announcement in the summer of 2006 while on vacation with my family. We (the AWS Marketing Team) have put...
Aug 25, 2011
We've extended EC2's VM Import feature to handle additional image formats and operating systems. The first release of VM Import handled Windows 2008 images in the VMware ESX VMDK format. You can now import Windows 2003 and Windows 2008 images...
Aug 23, 2011
Today we are introducing Amazon ElastiCache so that you can easily add caching logic to your application. You can now create Cache Clusters, each comprised of one or more Cache Nodes, in a matter of minutes. Each Cache Cluster is...
Aug 19, 2011
If you have read about the Amazon EC2 Spot Instances but are not quite sure how to get started, how to make cost-effective bids, or how to build applications that can manage interruptions, I've got a treat for you. We've...
Aug 19, 2011
We've combined two popular Amazon EC2 features — Spot Instances and Elastic MapReduce —to allow you to launch managed Hadoop clusters using unused EC2 capacity. You will be able to run long-running jobs, cost-driven workloads, data-critical workloads, and application testing...
Aug 18, 2011
Every since we announced the availability of the first set of Oracle applications on Amazon EC2, we've been working to add additional instance types, locations, and applications. We've made some really good progress; you can now run a wide variety...
Aug 16, 2011
A New Region Our new AWS GovCloud (US) Region was designed to meet the unique regulatory requirements of the United States Government. The US federal government, state and local governments, and the contractors who support their mission now have access...
Aug 16, 2011
We have added a number of handy and useful features to the popular AWS Toolkit for Eclipse. The toolkit includes the AWS SDK for Java; you can use it to develop AWS applications for deployment directly on Amazon EC2 or...
Aug 08, 2011
Over the summer months, we'd like to share a few stories from startups around the world: what are they working on and how they are using the cloud to get things done. Today, we're profiling the last year's winner of...
Aug 04, 2011
I often see blog posts that start by saying "with the announcement of ____, it is clear that AWS is now targeting the enterprise." These posts mention recent developments such as Reserved Instances, Dedicated Instances, VM Import, support for Oracle...
Aug 04, 2011
The new AWS Direct Connect service allows enterprises to create a connection to an AWS Region via a dedicated network circuit. In addition to enhancing privacy, dedicated circuits will generally result in more predictable data transfer performance and will also...
Aug 04, 2011
In the past 6 months we have launched several AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) features that have made it easier for our customers to control access to their AWS account. For example, we’ve launched support for IAM in the...
Aug 04, 2011
Today we are marking the Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) as Generally Available, and we are also releasing a big bundle of new features (see my recent post, A New Approach to Amazon EC2 Networking for more information on the last...
Aug 02, 2011
Here's what's happening in AWS-land for August of 2011: Webinars: August 3 - Game Development in the Cloud: Live Q&A With Featured Customer - 11:00 AM August 18 - Introduction to Amazon Web Services - 9:00 AM PST August 18...
Aug 01, 2011
I am pleased to announce that the 2011 AWS Start-Up Challenge is now On! If you are part of promising young start-up and you use (or plan to use) one or more of the Amazon Web Services, please read the...
Jul 30, 2011
Over the summer months, we'd like to share a few stories from startups around the world: what are they working on and how they are using the cloud to get things done. Today, we're profiling Yottaa from Cambridge, MA! I...
Jul 26, 2011
We've made some important updates to EC2's Auto Scaling feature. You now have additional control of the auto scaling process, and you can receive additional information about scaling operations. Here's a summary: You can now elect to receive notification from...
Jul 22, 2011
Over the summer months, we'd like to share a few stories from startups around the world: what are they working on and how they are using the cloud to get things done. Today, we're profiling Mediology Software from India! The...
Jul 21, 2011
I spent yesterday morning working in a coffee shop while waiting to have an informal discussion with a candidate for an open position. From my vantage point in the corner I was able to watch the shop's "processing pipeline" in...
Jul 19, 2011
As of the end of the second quarter of 2011, Amazon S3 holds more than 449 billion objects and processes up to 290,000 requests per second for them at peak times. Here's a chart: No matter how you look at...
Jul 19, 2011
Next week (July 27th to be precise) I will be speaking at a special event in Hollywood, California. Titled Enabling Content Workflows in the Cloud, the event is sponsored by AWS and Aspera. I'll be presenting, as willl Michelle Munson...
Jul 19, 2011
You can now use the Amazon Simple Email Service to send email message that include attachments such as images or documents. There are no new "attachment" APIs. Instead, you simply use the existing SendRawEmail function to send a message that...
Jul 18, 2011
Christie from Jinfonet emailed to tell me about their newest video, Cloud Reporting from Amazon EC2: Per their recent press release, their JReport product can be installed on one or more EC2 instances with linear scaling as additional instances are...
Jul 15, 2011
Here's what we have in store for the month of July (these are late; I was on vacation): Webinars: July 13 - AWS Office Hours: Development and Test - 9:00 AM PST July 21 - Introduction to Amazon Web Services...
Jul 14, 2011
Ruby is a wonderful programming language. Optimized for 'developer joy', it is an object oriented playground for building simple domain specific languages, orchestration tools, and most famously, web applications. In many ways, the Ruby language and Amazon cloud services such...
Jul 14, 2011
Over the summer months, we'd like to share a few stories from startups around the world: what are they working on and how they are using the cloud to get things done. Today, we're profiling Sportaneous from New York City!...
Jul 13, 2011
Earlier in the month, Microsoft announced Microsoft License Mobility with Software Assurance Program. This allows you to move Windows Server applications licenses between your on-premises environment and the cloud. Today, I am really excited to announce that AWS and Microsoft...
Jul 11, 2011
We have made an important change to the way pricing works for EC2 Spot Instances. We are replacing the original Region-based pricing information with more detailed information that is specific to each Availability Zone. This change ensures that both the...
Jul 08, 2011
I am very excited to announce support for importing data into Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) using AWS Import/Export. Until now, AWS Import/Export allowed you to move large amounts of data into and out of Amazon S3 using portable storage...
Jul 01, 2011
AWS is a pay-as-you-use mix of tools and services that help businesses of all sizes build innovative products. Over the summer months, we'd like to share a few stories from startups around the world: what are they working on and...
Jun 30, 2011
We just released two new capabilities for AWS Elastic Beanstalk that help you save your preferred environment settings and deploy changes to your applications with minimal downtime. Configuration Persistence Using the AWS Management Console, you can now save an environment’s...
Jun 30, 2011
We are continuously working hard to drive down our costs and pass those savings back to our customers. And indeed, AWS has reduced pricing more than a dozen times in the last 4 years. See the list of AWS' announcements...
Jun 24, 2011
The AWS global footprint continues to grow! We've just opened up an Amazon CloudFront and Route 53 edge location in Stockholm, Sweden. This is our 19th edge location worldwide and our 6th in Europe. You don't need to do anything...
Jun 24, 2011
There are now more than 500,000 Mechanical Turk Workers in 190 countries on the Mechanical Turk marketplace. These Workers are ready and eager to work on a wide variety of tasks (Human Intelligence Tasks or HITS) including data cleansing, image...
Jun 21, 2011
We continue to add options to AWS in order to give our customers the freedom and flexibility that they need to build and run applications of all different shapes and sizes. I'm pleased to be able to tell you that...
Jun 08, 2011
We have a lot going on in June; here's the scoop: Webinars: June 16 - Introduction to Amazon Web Services - 9:00 AM PST June 30 - AWS Office Hours: Disaster Recovery - 9:00 AM PST Talks: June 7 -...
May 31, 2011
We'll be holding a technology open house at our new South Lake Union campus on the North end of Seattle. The event is free but space is limited and you will need to pre-register. The welcome and the keynote will...
May 28, 2011
Today, I spoke at the Citrix Synergy 2011 Conference in San Francisco where they announced Citrix's Support for XenApp - On-demand Application Delivery Solution - on Amazon Web Services Cloud. I am particularly excited about this announcement because now you...
May 25, 2011
As you may know from my previous post, Amazon Route 53 is a highly available and highly scalable DNS service. Today we have some big news for users and fans of Route 53: You can use a new alias feature...
May 25, 2011
We've added three new features to EC2's Elastic Load Balancing feature: IPv6 Support - All Elastic Load Balancers in the US East (Northern Virginia) and EU (Ireland) regions now have publicly routable IPv6 addresses in addition to their existing IPv4...
May 24, 2011
A few months ago I told you that we were planning to support Oracle Database 11g (Release 2) via the Relational Database Service (RDS). That support is now ready to go, and you can start launching Database Instances today. We've...
May 18, 2011
We have updated the AWS Security White Paper and we've created a new Risk and Compliance White Paper. Both are available now. The AWS Security White Paper describes our physical and operational security principles and practices. It includes a description...
May 11, 2011
You can now store your business and application metrics in Amazon CloudWatch. You can view graphs, set alarms, and initiate automated actions based on these metrics, just as you can for the metrics that CloudWatch already stores for your AWS...
May 11, 2011
I thought it would be fun to show the new CloudWatch User-Defined metrics in action so I spent a couple of hours cooking up a little example. I launched an EC2 Micro instance, installed PHP, Emacs, the MySQL development package,...
May 09, 2011
The AWS SDK for Android and the AWS SDK for iOS now support even more AWS services: Amazon EC2 Amazon CloudWatch Amazon Simple Email Service Elastic Load Balancing Auto Scaling The SDKs already support Amazon S3, Amazon SimpleDB, Amazon Simple...
May 05, 2011
We've added a second container type to AWS Elastic Beanstalk. Version 7 of Apache Tomcat is now available for use and is the default for all new environments (you can still choose version 6 if you'd like). Tomcat 7 includes...
May 04, 2011
The AWS Management Console now includes support for Identity and Access Management (IAM). You can create and manage users, groups, and policies with a couple of mouse clicks. Read on to learn more about this new feature, or read my...
May 04, 2011
Our customers use AWS in many creative and innovative ways, continuously introducing new use cases and driving us to solve unexpected and complex problems. We are constantly improving our capabilities to make sure that we support a very wide variety...
May 03, 2011
We've got some interesting events and webinars planned for May of 2011. Here's the most recent list: Live Events, Conferences, and Conference Talks: May 9: AWS 101 for the Government - Herndon, Virginia May 10-11: Streaming Media East - New...
May 02, 2011
We have updated the AWS Management Console with support for three important CloudFront features: The ability to set a custom origin for a CloudFront distribution (docs). The option to make a distribution accessible solely via HTTPS (docs). The ability to...
Apr 29, 2011
Our new AWS Architecture Center was designed to provide you with the information and best practices that you need to build cloud-based applications. We will also be conducting a number of webinars to review and expand on the material found...
Apr 22, 2011
We have just announced our first set of AWS training classes. Each session will be held in Seattle and will run for four full days. The classes are designed for developers with experience building Java applications and there will be...
Apr 19, 2011
Our customers have been asking us for additional in-depth knowledge so that they can architect, develop, secure, and deploy all types of AWS applications. Our new AWS Summit events will take place in New York (June 10), London (June 14),...
Apr 19, 2011
You can now stream live audio or video through AWS using the Adobe Flash Media Server using a cost-effective pay-as-you-go model that makes uses of Amazon EC2, Amazon CloudFront, and Amazon Route 53, all configured and launched via a single...
Apr 15, 2011
We've added a new bookmarking feature to the AWS Management Console. You can now construct a URL that will open the console with a specific AMI (Amazon Machine Image) or CloudFormation Template selected and ready to launch. EC2 AMI Launch...
Apr 15, 2011
Our customers have become very adept at using Amazon Elastic MapReduce to chew through vast amounts of data in short order. As a switch from the corporate examples that I usually provide, I'd like to tell you about a slightly...
Apr 11, 2011
I launched my first "production" EC2 instance almost three years ago, on July 15, 2008. For my purposes, production includes hosting my personal blog and writing code for my AWS book, as well as a host for random development projects...
Apr 09, 2011
Our customers are doing all sorts of interesting work on AWS. We've been working with them to produce a number of AWS Case Studies so as to better spread the word about how cloud computing and AWS are changing the...
Apr 07, 2011
The newest version of the AWS SDK for Java has a very convenient client-side encryption feature. Once enabled, the SDK will automatically encrypt data before sending it to Amazon S3, and decrypt it before returning it to your application. You...
Apr 07, 2011
Today we are coupling two popular aspects of Amazon EC2: Cluster computing and Spot Instances! More and more of our customers are finding innovative ways to use EC2 Spot Instances to save up to two-thirds off the On-Demand price. Batch...
Apr 04, 2011
The AWS team will be participating in and putting on a number of live events and webinars this month. Here's a full list. Live events: April 4 - East Bay Java User Group (Oakland, CA). April 5 - SugarCRM Customer...
Apr 01, 2011
As I've blogged about in the past, we love to listen to our customers, and what we hear from them has a direct and very visible influence on our development process. I can literally watch as the information flows from...
Mar 28, 2011
Our hearts go out to those who have suffered through the recent events in Japan. I was relieved to hear from my friends and colleagues there in the days following the earthquake. I'm very impressed by the work that the...
Mar 28, 2011
We continue to listen to our customers, and we work hard to deliver the services, features, and business models based on what they tell us is most important to them. With hundreds of thousands of customers using Amazon EC2 in...
Mar 22, 2011
We've created a new video tutorial, which describes how to setup a cluster of high performance compute nodes in under 10 minutes. Follow along with the tutorial to get a feel for how to provision high performance systems with Amazon...
Mar 17, 2011
We released an updated version of the Amazon Linux AMI earlier this week. It is available in all AWS Regions for all instance types. Here's what's new: Default compiler upgraded from GCC 4.1 to GCC 4.4. The AMI kernel is...
Mar 16, 2011
Amazon's cloud computing platform makes it easy to provision infrastructure resources quickly. Spinning up a single server is straightforward, but larger deployments of multiple tier applications often require a little co-ordination. Join me for the next of our monthly technical...
Mar 16, 2011
Today we are adding new options for our customers running Windows and SQL Server environments on Amazon EC2. In addition to running Windows Server 2003 and 2008, you can now run now run Windows Server 2008 R2. Sharing the kernel...
Mar 15, 2011
You've been able to use the Amazon Virtual Private Cloud to construct a secure bridge between your existing IT infrastructure and the AWS cloud using an encrypted VPN connection. All communication between Amazon EC2 instances running within a particular VPC...
Mar 11, 2011
You can now use AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) to regulate access to the Amazon CloudFront APIs.For example, you could easily create three separate IAM groups with names and permissions as follows: Group CloudFrontManagement - Access to all CloudFront...
Mar 10, 2011
'Building powerful web applications in the AWS cloud' is a (fictional) love story about scalability. Once upon a time, not so very long ago, there was a boy named Andy. Andy, like other 25-year olds, was having a tough time...
Mar 09, 2011
We've added some new features to the EC2 tab of the AWS Management Console to make it even more powerful and even easier to use. You can now change the instance type of a stopped, EBS-backed EC2 instance. This means...
Mar 09, 2011
You can now run SUSE Linux Enterprise Server on EC2's Cluster Compute and Cluster GPU instances. As I noted in the post that I wrote last year when this distribution became available on the other instance types, SUSE Linux Enterprise...
Mar 08, 2011
We've teamed up with JumpBox to make it even easier and less expensive for you to host a WordPress blog, publish a web site with Drupal, run a Wiki with MediaWiki, or publish content with Joomla. You can benefit from...
Mar 08, 2011
The folks at ActiveState have cooked up an ActivePython AMI to make it easy for you to build and deploy web application written in Python.You can get started in minutes without having to download, install, or configure anything. The AMI...
Mar 04, 2011
The new Amazon EC2 VM Import Connector is a virtual appliance (vApp) plug-in for VMware vCenter. Once installed, you can import virtual machines from your VMware vSphere infrastructure into Amazon EC2 using the GUI that you are already familiar with....
Mar 04, 2011
When you create an Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) DB Instance you need to specify the desired times for the daily backup window and the weekly maintenance window: If you have enabled backups for a particular DB Instance (by setting...
Mar 02, 2011
I have made many visits to Japan over the last several years to speak at conferences and to meet with developers. I really enjoy the people, the strong sense of community, and the cuisine. Over the years I have learned...
Mar 01, 2011
We have a plethora of trade shows, live events and webinars on our calendar for March of 2011. First, the trade shows and live events: March 1 - Chicago AWS User Group Meetup. March 2-4 - Game Developers Conference (San...
Feb 25, 2011
My wife's "famous" Greek Easter Bread! My family does a lot of cooking and baking. Sometimes we start out with a goal, a menu, and some recipes. Other times we get a bit more creative and do something interesting with...
Feb 25, 2011
The AWS Management Console now includes full support for AWS CloudFormation. You can create stacks from templates, monitor the creation process, access the parameters and the outputs, and terminate the stack when you are done with it. As is my...
Feb 23, 2011
I'm very pleased to invite you all to join the AWS team in London, for our first Tech Summit of 2011. We'll take a quick, high level tour of the Amazon Web Services cloud platform before diving into the technical...
Feb 19, 2011
Attend the Amazon Web Services Workshop at Cloud Connect Knowing all the AWS services is one thing – knowing when and where to use which one is a completely different issue. This workshop will not only help you understand different...
Feb 18, 2011
We've added two new features to the AWS Management Console: forced detach of EBS volumes and termination protection. Forced Detach From time to time an Elastic Block Storage (EBS) volume will refuse to cleanly detach itself from an EC2 instance....
Feb 18, 2011
I love to meet with start-ups. There's always energy, enthusiasm, creativity and a desire to change the world in some interesting way. Over the years I've also read and reviewed many of the applications for the AWS Start-Up Challenge. The...
Feb 18, 2011
We've added some new features to Amazon S3 to make it even better at hosting static websites. Customers have been hosting their images and video for their websites on Amazon S3 for a long time. However, it was not that...
Feb 15, 2011
The AWS Management Console now recognizes Users created via AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM). IAM users can now log in to the console and manage resources within an AWS account. IAM Users can be assigned individual Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA)...
Feb 09, 2011
For this post, I am turning the keyboard over to my colleague Chris Wheeler. He's the Technical Program Manager for the Amazon Simple Email Service... A few weeks have passed and the dust has settled a bit. If you haven’t...
Feb 08, 2011
I had a very pleasant phone call with Erica and Daniel of BitNami just yesterday. They gave me a complete briefing on their new BitNami Cloud Hosting product, which they just announced a few minutes ago. BitNami Cloud Hosting is...
Feb 08, 2011
The new SOASTA CloudTest Pro product gives organizations the ability to launch test clouds of any size on public, private, or shared cloud infrastructure including Amazon EC2 instances. Developers and performance engineers building, running, and scaling enterprise-class applications can now...
Feb 08, 2011
We've just opened a new Amazon CloudFront and Amazon Route 53 location. The new location in Paris is our fifth in Europe and should result in even better performance and response time for users in that part of the world....
Feb 07, 2011
AWS Elastic Beanstalk manages your web application via Java, Tomcat and the Amazon cloud infrastructure. This means that in addition to Java, Elastic Beanstalk can host applications developed with languages compatible with the Java VM. This includes tools such as...
Feb 04, 2011
We have just opened up some new positions on the AWS Marketing Team: Product Marketing Manager (Seattle, Job 133399) - Support the ongoing marketing needs of product teams, ie. managing launches, reviewing launch content, driving product-specific campaigns, and managing Customer...
Feb 03, 2011
The Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) now supports version 5.5 of MySQL. This new version of MySQL includes InnoDB 1.1, and offers a number of performance improvements including enhanced use of multiple cores, better I/O handling with multiple read and...
Feb 01, 2011
As part of our continued effort to make AWS even more powerful and flexible, we are planning to support Oracle Database 11g Release 2 via the Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) beginning in the second quarter of 2011. Amazon RDS...
Feb 01, 2011
Amazon Web Services has teamed up with Binpress, a marketplace where developers buy and sell source code from one another, to sponsor a developer contest for the most useful source-code packages. The line-up for prizes is enticing — a mix...
Jan 31, 2011
We've got a lot of interesting live events and webinars planned for February of 2011. First, the live events: Feb 1 - Silicon Valley Cloud Computing Group - What's new with AWS - Mountain View, CA. Feb 1 - AWS...
Jan 28, 2011
The number of objects stored in Amazon S3 continues to grow: Here are the stats, measured at the end of the fourth quarter of each year: 2006 - 2.9 billion objects 2007 - 14 billion objects 2008 - 40 billion...
Jan 26, 2011
The AWS Management Console now includes support for the new Amazon CloudWatch features described in my other posts. The new CloudWatch tab on the console gives you complete access to all of the metrics collected for your EC2 instances, EBS...
Jan 25, 2011
Like most technical endeavors, sending email is a lot harder than it looks! The simple solutions that are entirely adequate when you have to send a couple of dozen daily emails simply don't work when you need to send out...
Jan 19, 2011
I've been looking forward to being able to tell you about this new part of AWS for quite a while. Perhaps I'm biased, but I do think that this is a pretty big deal! I think we've managed to balance...
Jan 19, 2011
The default configuration settings for your AWS Elastic Beanstalk application were chosen to work well under a wide variety of conditions. However, rest assured that you have the ability to view and to edit the settings as you'd like if...
Jan 19, 2011
You can create, test, debug, and deploy an AWS Elastic Beanstalk application from within the comfort of the Eclipse IDE. The newest version of the AWS Toolkit for Eclipse includes a brand-new plug-in that lets you deploy Java web applications...
Jan 19, 2011
The AWS Management Console includes support for AWS Elastic Beanstalk. If you already have a Java WAR file that you want to use to try out Elastic Beanstalk, you can do so through its browser-based interface. If you don't happen...
Jan 19, 2011
Let's talk about the way that your design your application for use within AWS Elastic Beanstalk.. As I have already mentioned, Elastic Beanstalk will handle the nitty-gritty day-to-day details associated with running and scaling your application. You get to focus...
Jan 19, 2011
Just like every other part of AWS, Elastic Beanstalk is programmable. A complete set of Elastic Beanstalk command line tools is available. You can use the Elastic Beanstalk APIs or the command line tools to integrate Elastic Beanstalk into your...
Jan 19, 2011
In this post I would like to introduce you to some of the principal concepts behind AWS Elastic Beanstalk. This information should be helpful to you as you read the remaining blog posts in this collection. Here are the terms...
Jan 18, 2011
Earlier this week I spent some time on the phone with Eric Fontaine of HeyWatch. Eric gave me some background information on their video encoding and sharing platform and I thought I would share it with you. HeyWatch has been...
Jan 14, 2011
From aeronautics to genomics to financial services, High Performance Computing is becoming a common requirement in many fields of industry and academia. Traditionally, the barrier to entry into this area has remained high, with the expertise and cost needed to...
Jan 14, 2011
As part of a new, monthly ‘hands on’ series of webinars, I'll be giving a technical review of building, managing and maintaining high availability websites and web applications using Amazon’s cloud computing platform. Hosting websites and web applications is a...
Jan 12, 2011
I blogged about our new AWS SDK for Android a few weeks ago. The response to the SDK has been quite good and I expect to start hearing about some great apps and success stories before too long. If you...
Jan 12, 2011
I've created a Coming Soon box at the top right of the blog to make it easier for you to learn about upcoming AWS events. Here's a summary of our plans for January 2011 (not 2010 as originally titled): January...
Jan 07, 2011
I have a number of Elastic MapReduce updates for you: Support for S3's Large Objects and Multipart Upload Upgraded Hive Support JDBC Drivers for Hive A tutorial on the use of Squirrel SQL with Elastic MapReduce Support for S3's Large...
Jan 06, 2011
I've got some really important news about our AWS Premium Support offering. We've added new Bronze and Platinum plans, reduced our prices, and increased our responsiveness. New Support Plans We are introducing two new support plans. The new Bronze plan...
Jan 04, 2011
The new AWS Policy Generator simplifies the process of creating policy documents for the Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS), Amazon S3, the Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS), and AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM). You begin by selecting the type...
Jan 04, 2011
On January 27, 2010, Deepak Singh, PhD (Senior Business Development Director for AWS and author of the Business, Bytes, Genes, and Molecules blog) will discuss Analytics in the Cloud in a live webinar. Deepak will explain how businesses of any...
Jan 03, 2011
On Wednesday, January 12th we will be conducting an interactive "office hours" session at 9:00 AM PST. The topic will be PHP and how you can use it with AWS. You'll get to chat with me (Jeff Barr) and AWS...
Dec 29, 2010
You can now use the AWS Import/Export service to import and export data into and out of Amazon S3 buckets in the Asia Pacific (Singapore) Region via portable storage devices with eSATA USB 2.0, and SATA interfaces. You can ship...
Dec 28, 2010
Do you own the rights to some interesting structured or semi-structured data? If so, you may find AWS-powered WebServius to be of interest. They make it easy for you to monetize your data by providing you the ability to sell...
Dec 27, 2010
We've made some improvements to the AWS Portal to make it easier for you to find and access the information that you need to build even more AWS-powered applications. We've added content in several new languages, improved the search features,...
Dec 23, 2010
You can now purchase Relational Database Service Reserved DB Instances using the AWS Management Console. Reserved DB Instances allow you to reduce your costs if you plan to run your database for all or most of a one or three...
Dec 22, 2010
Felix Geisendörfer of Debuggable wrote in to tell me about Transloadit. He told me that they now support real-time video encoding using a number of Amazon EC2 instances. Whereas prior transcoding solutions waited for the entire video to be uploaded,...
Dec 21, 2010
We've just opened up an additional edge location for Amazon CloudFront and Amazon Route 53. Located in picturesque Jacksonville, Florida, this new edge location enjoys long walks on the beach and responding to requests for content (CloudFront) and IP addresses...
Dec 17, 2010
Earlier this year I discussed our plans to allow you to run a wide variety of Oracle applications on Amazon EC2 in the near future. The future is finally here; the following applications are now available as AMIs for use...
Dec 15, 2010
If you have invested in virtualization to meet IT security, compliance, or configuration management requirements and are now looking at the cloud as the next step toward the future, I've got some good news for you. VM Import lets you...
Dec 14, 2010
I became aware of DNS30 during the private beta test of Amazon Route 53.I own quite a few personal domains for use by me and my family and I was looking forward to managing all of the DNS entries from...
Dec 13, 2010
Colin Percival (developer of Tarsnap) wrote to tell me that the FreeBSD operating system is now running on Amazon EC2 in experimental fashion. According to his FreeBSD on EC2 blog post, version 9.0-CURRENT of FreeBSD is now available in the...
Dec 10, 2010
A number of our customers want to store very large files in Amazon S3 -- scientific or medical data, high resolution video content, backup files, and so forth. Until now, they have had to store and reference the files as...
Dec 09, 2010
The Mechanical Turk now has a blog of its very own. The new Mechanical Turk blog will be used to share information with Mechanical Turk Requesters, Workers, and fans of the Mechanical Turk marketplace. It will include product announcements, how-to...
Dec 09, 2010
We want to make it easier for developers to build AWS applications on mobile devices. Today we are introducing new SDKs for AWS Development on devices that run the Google's Android and Apple's iOS operating systems (iPhones, iPads, and the...
Dec 07, 2010
If your application needs to process, store, or transmit credit card data, you are probably familiar with the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard, otherwise known as PCI DSS. This standard specifies best practices and security controls needed to keep...
Dec 06, 2010
In 1995 I registered my first domain name and put it online. Back then, registration was expensive and complex. Before you could even register a domain you had to convince at least two of your friends to host the Domain...
Dec 04, 2010
We just added a new BatchDeleteAttributes call to Amazon SimpleDB and you can read all about it in the SimpleDB Developer Guide. This new call will make it easier and quicker for you to delete multiple attributes or multiple items...
Dec 03, 2010
The Amazon CloudWatch team has put together a really impressive set of new features. Too many, in fact, to fit on this page. I've written a series of posts with all of the information. Here's a summary, with links to...
Dec 03, 2010
You can now use Amazon CloudWatch to monitor your EC2 instances at no additional charge. CPU load, disk I/O, and network I/O metrics are collected at five minute intervals and stored for two weeks. We call this Basic Monitoring. You...
Dec 03, 2010
Auto Scaling can now take advantage of the instance health information collected by the associated Elastic Load Balancer. Specifically, once a load balancer determines that an instance is unhealthy (using the health checks that were established when the load balancer...
Dec 03, 2010
The new CloudWatch Alarms feature allows you to watch CloudWatch metrics and to receive notifications when the metrics fall outside of the levels (high or low thresholds) that you configure. You can attach multiple Alarms to each metric and each...
Dec 03, 2010
The development team likes to call this feature the "Big Red Button." You can use CloudWatch's Auto Scaling feature to scale your EC2 capacity up and down according to conditions that you define. You do this by creating an AutoScaling...
Dec 03, 2010
Perhaps you expect a lot of traffic as part of a planned announcement and you want to increase the size of your EC2 fleet just ahead of your press release. Maybe your site is busy once a day because you...
Dec 03, 2010
The new release of Auto Scaling gives you better control over the policies used to modify the number of EC2 instances running in one of your AutoScaling groups. Auto Scaling now emits metrics for each AutoScalingGroup. You can use CloudWatch...