| Jun 23, 2009 |
AWS Management Console Adds Support for Amazon CloudFrontWe’re excited to announce today that we’ve added support for Amazon CloudFront, the cost-effective, low-latency content delivery service, to the AWS Management Console. Now you can use a simple, point-and-click web interface to configure and manage Amazon CloudFront. With AWS Management Console support, you can get started with Amazon CloudFront faster than ever. Access to the AWS Management Console is provided free of charge at http://console.aws.amazon.com. |
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| Jun 08, 2009 |
New AWS Security Center and Security WhitepaperThe AWS Security Center is a central location from which you can obtain the latest versions of our security whitepaper, receive security updates and where you can report any security concerns. In addition, we’ve published the June 2009 version of our AWS: Overview of Security Processes whitepaper, which should help answer additional questions about physical and operational security processes for network infrastructure controlled by AWS. |
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| May 20, 2009 |
Introducing AWS Import/Export for Physical Data TransferAmazon Web Services has announced the limited beta of AWS Import/Export, a new offering that accelerates moving large amounts of data into and out of AWS using portable storage devices for transport. For significant data sets, AWS Import/Export is often faster than Internet transfer and more cost effective than upgrading your connectivity. You can use AWS Import/Export for migrating data into the cloud, sending backups to AWS, and interchanging data with others. To be considered for participation, please see the AWS Import/Export Detail Page. |
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| May 20, 2009 |
New Amazon SimpleDB Query Enhancements and WSDLIn response to customer requests for additional querying capabilities, Amazon SimpleDB today released several upgrades for the SELECT API. Developers may now perform “contains” queries via the LIKE operator, enabling them to search for an attribute value within any part of a string. In addition, queries may now be executed on and sorted by the itemName. Query sorts have also been upgraded to allow “is null” as the predicate. Finally, the limit on the number of items returned by a Select has been increased to 2500. These new features are available with the new Amazon SimpleDB WSDL 2009-04-15. Visit the Amazon SimpleDB detail page to learn more and to get started with SimpleDB. |
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| May 17, 2009 |
Now Available: Monitoring, Auto Scaling and Elastic Load Balancing for Amazon EC2AWS today announced the public beta of new features for Amazon EC2: Amazon CloudWatch for monitoring AWS cloud resources, Auto Scaling for automatically growing and shrinking capacity based on demand, and Elastic Load Balancing for distributing incoming traffic across Amazon EC2 compute instances. Together, these capabilities provide businesses and developers with greater visibility into the health and usage of AWS compute resources, and allow them to further improve performance of their applications and operate more efficiently. To learn more about these capabilities, visit the Amazon EC2 detail page. |
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| May 13, 2009 |
IBM Releases New Development AMIs for Amazon EC2Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) has been working in conjunction with IBM to expand our AMI Catalog. Last week, IBM released IBM Lotus Forms Turbo and IBM Mashup Center Development AMIs. The IBM Lotus Forms Turbo AMI will help you quickly create web-based eForms. IBM Mashup Center enables you to aggregate and “mashup” enterprise, Web, personal, and departmental data into other consumable forms. These AMIs are available at no additional fee beyond Amazon EC2 charges for developers building commercial Software-as-a-Service IBM-based applications. For more information about these AMIs, please visit the IBM Featured Partner Page. |
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| May 07, 2009 |
Amazon CloudFront Adds Access Logging CapabilityAWS today released access logs for Amazon CloudFront. Access logs are activity records that show you details about every request delivered through Amazon CloudFront. They contain a comprehensive set of information about requests for your content, including the object requested, the date and time of the request, the edge location serving the request, the client IP address, the referrer and the user agent. It’s easy to get started using access logs: you just specify the name of the Amazon S3 bucket you want to use to store the logs when you configure your Amazon CloudFront distribution. There are no fees for using the access logs, beyond normal Amazon S3 charges to write, store and retrieve the logs. The Amazon Elastic MapReduce team has also built a sample application, CloudFront LogAnalyzer, that will analyze your Amazon CloudFront access logs. This tool lets you use the power of Amazon Elastic MapReduce to quickly turn Access Logs into the answers to the most commonly asked questions about your business. Additionally, several partners have also built solutions that help you analyze these access logs; you can find more information about these in the AWS Solutions Catalog. Learn more about Amazon CloudFront and Amazon Elastic MapReduce. |
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| Apr 29, 2009 |
AWS Goes To School With Programs For Educators, Researchers, and StudentsAmazon.com, Inc. announces AWS in Education, a set of programs that enable the academic community to easily leverage the benefits of Amazon Web Services for teaching and research. With AWS in Education, educators, academic researchers, and students worldwide can obtain free usage credits to tap into the on-demand infrastructure of Amazon Web Services to teach advanced courses, tackle research endeavors and explore new projects – tasks that previously would have required expensive investments in infrastructure. AWS in Education also provides self-directed learning resources on cloud computing for students. To sign up and begin using Amazon Web Services, and to apply for grants for usage credits, visit: http://aws.amazon.com/education |
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| Apr 22, 2009 |
Amazon EC2 Running IBM Now AvailableAmazon EC2 running IBM now offers Amazon EC2 instances combined with popular IBM applications that you can pay for by the hour with no need for licenses or long term upfront commitments. You can now flexibly scale your IBM applications up and down and only pay for what you use. If you already have an existing IBM license, you may also have the ability to run that license in Amazon EC2 as well and you simply pay our normal Amazon EC2 hourly prices for On-Demand or Reserved Instances. The hourly prices for Amazon EC2 running IBM are as follows:
Amazon EC2 running IBM requires no commitments or long-term contracts, and allows you to get up and running quickly with IBM’s proven technologies paying only for the hours you use. To get started, you can find Amazon EC2 running IBM AMIs in the AWS Management Console or ElasticFox by searching for them with the keyword “ec2-paid-ibm-amis”. For more details on pricing or using Amazon EC2 with IBM-based technologies please go to http://aws.amazon.com/ibm |
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| Apr 15, 2009 |
Amazon EC2 Reserved Instances Now Available in EuropeAmazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) Reserved Instances are now available in Europe. Reserved Instances give you the option to make a low, one-time payment for each instance you want to reserve and in turn receive a significant discount on the hourly usage charge for that instance. After the one-time payment for an instance, that instance is reserved for you, and you have no further obligation; you may choose to run that instance for the discounted usage rate for the duration of your term, or if and when you do not use the instance, you will not pay usage charges on it. |
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| Apr 09, 2009 |
Announcing Amazon SQS WSDL Version 2009-02-01 and Amazon SQS in EuropeAmazon SQS now includes shared queue access which, among other things, will give you the ability to grant access to your queue to anonymous users and enable you to integrate non-AWS applications with AWS applications. In addition, we’ve added the ability to change the timeout of a received message, which will allow you to accommodate applications that require longer processing time for items in your queues. These new features are available with Amazon SQS WSDL 2009-02-01 which is fully backwards compatible with WSDL 2008-01-01. If you’d like to take advantage of these new features please review our Technical Documentation, which gives detailed information about the new APIs. Also, Amazon SQS is now available in the EU region, which means that resources for Amazon EC2, Amazon S3, and Amazon SQS can now be accessed locally in the EU. Developers now have a local EU end-point that supports all of the Amazon SQS functionality at the same pricing as in the US region. |
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| Apr 06, 2009 |
Creating HIPAA-Compliant Medical Data Applications With AWSU.S. companies that are handling healthcare information, specifically personally identifiable information, are subject to the security and privacy regulations of Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). To help companies building applications in the AWS cloud meet HIPAA standards, we have released a whitepaper, Creating HIPAA-Compliant Medical Data Applications with AWS (PDF). In addition to the whitepaper, read how several customers have used AWS to build applications and manage HIPPA compliance: DiskAgent, TC3 Health and MedCommons. |
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| Apr 02, 2009 |
Announcing Amazon Elastic MapReduceAmazon Web Services has announced the beta launch of Amazon Elastic MapReduce a web service that enables businesses, researchers, data analysts, and developers to easily and cost-effectively process vast amounts of data. It utilizes a hosted Hadoop framework running on the web-scale infrastructure of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) and Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3). Using Amazon Elastic MapReduce, you can instantly provision as much or as little capacity as you like to perform data-intensive tasks for applications such as web indexing, data mining, log file analysis, machine learning, financial analysis, scientific simulation, and bioinformatics research. Amazon Elastic MapReduce lets you focus on crunching or analyzing your data without having to worry about time-consuming set-up, management or tuning of Hadoop clusters or the compute capacity upon which they sit. You can learn more and sign up at http://aws.amazon.com/elasticmapreduce. |
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| Mar 30, 2009 |
Celebrating 3 Years of Amazon S3 with 3 Months of Transfer-In for 3 Cents/GBThree years ago this month, Amazon Web Services launched Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) as “storage for the internet,” providing “highly scalable, reliable, low-latency storage at very low costs.” Since that time, Amazon S3 has experienced dramatic growth, expanded into Europe, and lowered pricing multiple times as we’ve been able to achieve ever greater economies of scale and pass them on to our customers. Today, the service has grown to store over 52 billion objects and serve over 1 trillion requests per year from customers in over 90 countries. Whether you’ve used Amazon S3 to back up files, host static website content, securely share files with your external business partners, or store scientific, financial, or website data for processing via Amazon EC2, you’ve contributed to this growth. We owe the success of the service to you, and on the 3rd anniversary of Amazon S3, we’ve decided to say “thank you” with a few more “3s.” We’ll be offering “data transfer in” to Amazon S3 for only $0.03 per GB (vs. the standard $0.10) for the next 3 months, April through June. As always, data transfer between Amazon S3 and EC2 within regions remains free, and all other pricing dimensions are unchanged. At the beginning of July, prices will return to normal, so if you’ve been thinking about moving a new project into Amazon S3, now might be the time. More information on Amazon S3 and its pricing can be found here: http://aws.amazon.com/s3 After three years, we continue to be excited and honored to be on this journey with you. Thank you. |
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| Mar 25, 2009 |
Announcing the AWS Toolkit for EclipseThe AWS Toolkit for Eclipse is a plug-in for the Eclipse Java IDE that makes it easier for developers to develop, deploy, and debug Java applications using Amazon Web Services. With the AWS Toolkit for Eclipse, you’ll be able to get started faster and be more productive when building AWS applications. To learn more about the AWS Toolkit for Eclipse, go to: http://aws.amazon.com/eclipse |
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| Mar 24, 2009 |
Write Your SimpleDB Data Faster With Batch PutAWS today released a new batch put API for Amazon SimpleDB. Developers can now perform multiple PutAttribute operations in a single call. The BatchPutAttributes operation offers developers the ability to optimize the number of requests submitted to SimpleDB while increasing overall throughput. |
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| Mar 12, 2009 |
Amazon EC2 Introduces Reserved InstancesWe are excited today to introduce Reserved Instances, an additional pricing option for Amazon EC2 that gives you an option to make a low, one-time payment for an instance to reserve capacity and further reduce hourly usage charges. Reserved Instances are complementary to existing Amazon EC2 On-Demand Instances and give businesses even more flexibility to reduce computing costs. As with On-Demand Instances, you will still pay only for the compute capacity that you actually consume, and if you do not use an instance, you will not pay usage charges for it. To learn more about Reserved Instances, go to http://aws.amazon.com/ec2 |
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| Mar 03, 2009 |
Amazon EC2 Expands Windows and EU Region OfferingsWe are excited to announce several new features for the Amazon EC2 European Region. Starting today, you can launch Amazon EC2 running Windows or SQL Server instances in the EU Region, enabling you to locate your Windows computing resources close to your European customers/partners, as well as to other AWS computing services (e.g. Amazon S3, Amazon CloudFront, etc.). Pay-as-you-go pricing for Amazon EC2 running Windows Server in the EU Region begins at $0.135 per compute hour. To make it even easier to get started and to manage Amazon EC2, the AWS Management Console has been extended to the Amazon EC2 European Region and provides the same features as in the US Region, including provisioning and managing Linux/UNIX and Windows instances, Amazon EBS volumes, and Elastic IP addresses. Finally, Amazon EC2 has also launched an additional Availability Zone for Windows instances in the US Region, making it possible for you to build Windows-based systems that are resilient to failure in a single location. We are excited to share these new features with you and invite you to visit the Windows Detail Page or the AWS Management Console to get started. |
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| Feb 19, 2009 |
New Features for Amazon SimpleDBAWS today released two upgrades to the SELECT API for Amazon SimpleDB. With Select Count, developers may now count the number of items that meet the condition(s) specified by the predicate(s) in a query. And rather than timing out when queries run long, now when using the Select API, SimpleDB will return the partial result set accumulated at the 5 second mark together with a NextToken to restart precisely from the point previously reached, until the full result set has been returned. |
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| Feb 11, 2009 |
Start Using IBM in the Cloud Today
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| Feb 05, 2009 |
Amazon FPS Exits Beta and Announces Limited Time Free Payment ProcessingAmazon Flexible Payments Service (Amazon FPS) is now generally available and has been made easier to use with Amazon FPS Quick Starts. Amazon FPS Quick Starts aggregate various Amazon FPS APIs into a simplified set of APIs that substantially reduce the steps you must take to enable payment processing on your website. Also, with a limited time offer from Amazon Payments, you can get started free! Build an application using Amazon FPS and get free payment processing for the first 90 days until total transaction volume reaches $500,000. Learn more. |
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| Jan 28, 2009 |
New Lower Pricing Tiers for Amazon CloudFrontToday, AWS is announcing new pricing tiers for Amazon CloudFront, our high-performance, pay-as-you-go content delivery service. The new pricing tiers decrease the price of delivering content to as low as $0.05 per gigabyte delivered for high volume users. You can see the new pricing tiers, which are effective February 1st, on the CloudFront detail page. |
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| Jan 09, 2009 |
AWS Wins 2008 Crunchie Award for Best Enterprise Startup
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| Jan 08, 2009 |
Announcing the AWS Management ConsoleWe’re excited to announce the initial beta release of our AWS Management Console, a web-based, point-and-click, graphical user interface that makes it even easier to access and manage AWS Infrastructure Web Services. The initial release provides an online interface for Amazon EC2, with additional AWS services scheduled to be added in the coming months. The console presents an intuitive, global picture of your cloud computing environment so that you can control your AWS resources without programming directly to an API. You do not need to write any code or install any software if you access Amazon EC2 via the AWS Management Console. You simply log in to the console after signing up for Amazon EC2 and immediately begin managing your resources through the point-and-click interface. Within minutes, you will be able to configure your application environment and begin launching and managing Amazon EC2 instances, mounting Amazon Elastic Block Store volumes, and listing your Amazon Machine Images (AMIs). Access to the AWS Management Console is provided free of charge at https://console.aws.amazon.com. |
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| Jan 05, 2009 |
InformationWeek names Amazon CTO Werner Vogels Chief of the Year
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