AWS News Blog
AWS Week in Review – January 21, 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. Wednesday, January 23 The AWS Mobile Blog posted part 3 of an article on using […]
Read MoreThe AWS Report – Michelle Munson of Aspera
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;
Read MoreEC2 for In-Memory Computing – The High Memory Cluster Eight Extra Large Instance
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 […]
Read MoreAWS Week in Review – January 14, 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 app. Tuesday, January 15 We introduced endpoint renaming for Amazon RDS. Wednesday, January 16 We […]
Read More2012 Year in Review: New AWS Technical Whitepapers, Articles and Videos Published – Give Us Your Feedback!
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 […]
Read MoreEndpoint Renaming for Amazon RDS
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 […]
Read MoreWebinar – Scalable Database Architectures
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 […]
Read MoreThe AWS Report – Lisa Green of Common Crawl
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, […]
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