AWS News Blog
DynamoDB – Price Reduction and New Reserved Capacity Model
We’re making Amazon DynamoDB an even better value today, with a price reduction and a new reserved capacity pricing model. Behind the scenes, we’ve worked hard to make this happen. We have fine-tuned our storage and our processing model, optimized our replication pipeline, and taken advantage of our scale to drive down our hardware costs. […]
Read MoreWindows Wednesday – AWS Implementation Guide for Microsoft SQL Server 2012 AlwaysOn Availability Groups
Tom Rizzo is back with another guest post. Today he brings news of an implementation guide and some CloudFormation templates to show you how to implement SQL Server AlwaysOn Availability Groups. — Jeff; Welcome to another installment of Windows Wednesday! Last week we announced the beta of our AWS Diagnostics for Microsoft Windows Server which […]
Read MoreAWS at the University Hacker Olympics
We were pleased to be able to sponsor the University Hacker Olympics event earlier this year. Held in San Francisco, the event attracted 100 student scholars from 25 universities. The students competed for a chance to win over $150,000 in travel and other prizes. As a platium sponsor, we provided AWS credits to all contestants, […]
Read MoreMeet the AWS Team at SxSW
Several of my colleagues on the AWS team are heading to South by Southwest (SxSW) this year. If you are planning to be there, they’d be overjoyed to meet you. We have a booth, two AWS sessions, and some special events: Amazon BoothThe AWS team will be at the Austin Convention Center during SxSW Interactive […]
Read MoreModulus – Scalable Hosting of Node.js Apps With MongoDB Support
Charlie from Modulus wrote in to tell me that their new platform is now available, and that it runs on AWS. Modulus was designed to let you build and host Node.js applications in a scalable fashion. Node.js is a server-side JavaScript environment built around an event-driven, non-blocking I/O model. Web applications built on Node.js are […]
Read MoreAWS Special Hiring Event in Berlin
We’re hiring in Berlin! We are scaling up the existing AWS OpsWorks team and we’re building a new Machine Learning team as well. We are setting up a recruiting event in Berlin that will run from the 11th to the 17th of March. If you are interested in attending the event or just want to […]
Read MoreReserved Instance Price Reduction for Amazon EC2
The AWS team is always exploring ways to reduce costs and to pass the savings along to our customers. We’re more than happy to continue this tradition with our latest price reduction. Starting today, we are reducing prices for new EC2 Reserved Instances running Linux/UNIX, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, and SUSE Linux Enterprise Server by […]
Read MoreAmazon RDS – Easier Access to Database Log Files
You can now access the log files generated by your Amazon RDS DB Instances running MySQL, Oracle Database, or SQL Server via the AWS Management Console and the Amazon RDS APIs. You can use these logs to identify, troubleshoot, and repair configuration errors and sub-optimal performance. You can view the logs as of a certain […]
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