Author: Jeff Barr

New – SaaS Contract Upgrades and Renewals for AWS Marketplace

Posted on May 29, 2020 by Jeff Barr

AWS Marketplace currently contains over 7,500 listings from 1,500 independent software vendors (ISVs). You can browse the digital catalog to

MSP360 – Evolving Cloud Backup with AWS for Over a Decade

Posted on May 19, 2020 by Jeff Barr

Back in 2009 I received an email from an AWS developer named Andy. He told me that he and his

Adventures in Scaling in Changing Times

Posted on May 14, 2020 by Jeff Barr

I don’t know about you, but the last two months have been kind of crazy for me due to the

AWS Inter-Region Data Transfer (DTIR) Price Reduction

Posted on May 11, 2020 by Jeff Barr

If you build AWS applications that span two or more AWS regions, this post is for you. We are reducing

New – AWS Elemental Link – Deliver Live Video to the Cloud for Events & Streams

Posted on May 4, 2020 by Jeff Barr

Video is central to so many online experiences. Regardless of the origin or creator, today’s viewers expect a high-resolution, broadcast-quality

Join the FORMULA 1 DeepRacer ProAm Special Event

Posted on April 30, 2020 by Jeff Barr

The AWS DeepRacer League gives you the opportunity to race for prizes and glory, while also having fun & learning

New – Use CloudWatch Synthetics to Monitor Sites, API Endpoints, Web Workflows, and More

Posted on April 23, 2020 by Jeff Barr

Today’s applications encompass hundreds or thousands of moving parts including containers, microservices, legacy internal services, and third-party services. In addition

AWS Chatbot – ChatOps for Slack and Amazon Chime

Posted on April 22, 2020 by Jeff Barr

Last year, my colleague Ilya Bezdelev wrote Introducing AWS Chatbot: ChatOps for AWS to launch the public beta of AWS

Capacity-Optimized Spot Instance Allocation in Action at Mobileye and Skyscanner

Posted on April 16, 2020 by Jeff Barr

Amazon EC2 Spot Instances were launched way back in 2009. The instances are spare EC2 compute capacity that is available

AWS Snowball Edge Update – Faster Hardware, OpsHub GUI, IAM, and AWS Systems Manager