Author: Jeff Barr

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 the specs: Two Intel E5-2670 processors running at 2.6 GHz with Intel Turbo Boost and […]

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 app. Tuesday,  January 15 We introduced endpoint renaming for Amazon RDS. Wednesday, January 16 We […]

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 but also provide guidance on economics, cross-service architectures, reference implementations, best practices and details on […]

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 for all of the database engines supported by Amazon RDS. There are two main uses […]

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, ElastiCache, or more than one? We’ve set up webinar for later this week to help […]

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 Public Data Set. If you are planning to process this large (81 TB) data set, […]

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 Amazon SNS now supports payloads up to 64KB. Thursday, January 10 We announced the finalists […]

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 and small business profiles to improve decision making. Mortar Data (USA) – Open source framework […]

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 a value that you specify. For example, you can track the CPU load of your […]

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 PHP. Friday, January 4 We announced AWS Management Console improvements, including tablet and mobile support. […]