Author: Jeff Barr

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  m2.2xlarge (new) 500 Mbps  m2.4xlarge 1000 Mbps  m3.xlarge (new) 500 Mbps  m3.2xlarge (new) 1000 Mbps […]

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 AWS Management Console for the iPhone. We announced the new EC2 Cross-Region AMI Copy Feature. […]

In the latest episode of The AWS Report, I spoke with Sebastian Stadil of Scalr to learn more about their cloud management software: — Jeff;

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 of judges. Along the way there’s time for some coaching and a quick lesson in […]

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 a wide variety of appliations. Without RDS, upgrading to a new version of your chosen […]

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 storage space and RDS will take care of the rest. The RDS Provisioned IOPS feature […]

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. This feature gave you the ability to copy a snapshot from Region to Region with […]

Back in January we released our first Management Console mobile app for Android users. Were 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 charges, and AWS Service Health. You can view all of your EC2 instances, filter and […]

Im 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 environment and resources using sensible defaults in order to run your Node.js application. You can […]

If you use or plan to use Amazon EC2, you need to read this post! History LessonWay back in the beginning (OK, 2006) we launched Amazon EC2. When you launched an instance we gave it a public IP address and a DNS hostname. You had the ability to create a Security Group for ingress filtering […]