AWS News Blog
AWS Trusted Advisor Update – Free Trial + New Features
The AWS Trusted Advisor is a really cool but relatively little-known part of AWS. It inspects your AWS environment and makes recommendations to help you save money, improve performance, or close security gaps. Because the AWS Trusted Advisor draws upon the aggregated operational history of hundreds of thousands of AWS customers, you can be confident […]
Price Reductions & Expanded Free Tier for the Simple Queue Service (SQS) and the Simple Notification Service (SNS)
We launched the Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS) in 2004 and the Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS) in 2010. Our customers have constantly discovered powerful new ways to build more scalable, elastic and reliable applications with these building blocks. We learned, for example, that some customers use SQS as a buffer ahead of databases and […]
Available Now: Beta release of AWS Diagnostics for Microsoft Windows Server
Over the past few years, we have seen tremendous adoption of Microsoft Windows Server in AWS. Customers such as the Department of Treasury, the United States Tennis Association, and Lionsgate Film and Entertainment are building and running interesting Windows Server solutions on AWS. To further our efforts to make AWS the best place to run […]
AWS OpsWorks – One Week Report
Its been an exciting first week for AWS OpsWorks. We appreciate all the product feedback through Twitter, blogs, forums and email. We wanted to share a few common questions that were hearing and explain a little more about our plans for the service. We also invite you to join our Introduction to AWS OpsWorks webinar […]
AWS Week in Review – February 18, 2013
Let’s take a quick look at what happened in AWS-land last week: Monday, February 18 We updated and improved a number of pages on the AWS site including Cloud Computing on AWS, the AWS Free Usage Tier, Enterprise on AWS, Start-ups on AWS, and Government & Education on AWS, and the AWS Economics Center. We […]
CloudWatch Monitoring Scripts Updated
We have added three new features to the CloudWatch Monitoring Scripts for Linux. These scripts can be run in the background to periodically report system metrics to Amazon CloudWatch, where they will be stored for two weeks When you install the scripts you can choose to report any desired combination of the following metrics: Memory […]
Three New Features for AWS CloudFormation
AWS CloudFormation gives you an easy way to create and manage a collection of related AWS resources. You define a template (or use one of ours) and hand it over to CloudFormation. It will take care of creating all of the necessary AWS resources (a stack), in the proper order. Today we are introducing three […]
AWS Marketplace – Support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
The AWS Marketplace now supports software running on Red Hat Enterprise Linux, commonly known as RHEL. If you use RHEL on AWS, you can now find, buy, and then one-click deploy an ever-growing set of applications from top-tier software vendors. The AWS MarketplaceAs you may know, the AWS Marketplace makes it easy for you to […]