AWS News Blog
The New Cloud TCO Comparison Calculator for Web Applications
I have been having discussions related to the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) of running workloads in the cloud as it compares to running them on-premises. One consistent conclusion is that weighing the financial considerations of owning and operating a data center or co-located facility versus employing a cloud infrastructure or a cloud service requires […]
Read MoreThe AWS Report – Matt Lull of Citrix
In this episode of The AWS Report, I spoke with Matt Lull, Managing Director, Global Strategic Alliances, for Citrix to learn more about their cloud strategy. We talked about their line of virtualization products including Xen, XenServer, CloudBridge, and the Citrix NetScaler. After that we talked about the concept of desktop virtualization, and Matt told […]
Read MoreAWS Storage Gateway – Now Generally Available and New Support for Gateway-Cached Volumes
The AWS Storage Gateway is a service that connects an on-premises software appliance with cloud-based storage. We launched the Storage Gateway earlier this year. The initial release supported on-premises iSCSI volume storage (what we call Gateway-Stored volumes), with snapshot backups to the cloud. Volume data stored locally is pushed to Amazon S3, where it is […]
Read MoreAWS Week in Review – October 15, 2012
Let’s take a quick look at what happened in AWS-land last week: Monday, October 15 AWS CloudFormation now supports RDS DB Parameter Groups and Provisioned IOPS. Tuesday, October 16 SAP Hana One is now certified for production use on AWS. New AWS Report posted – Patrick McBride of Xceedium. Friday,October 19 You can now launch EC2 Micro Instances […]
Read MoreThe AWS Report – Michael Crandell of RightScale
For today’s episode of the AWS Report, I spoke to Michael Crandell, co-founder and CEO of RightScale. RightScale was founded shortly after Amazon S3 and Amazon EC2 were introduced, with the goal of taking advantage of pay-as-you-go infrastructure as service. In this four minute video, Michael describe’s RightScale’s role as Cloud Management Platform (CMP). He […]
Read MoreThe AWS Report – Matt Wood Discusses Big Data and re:Invent
In this episode of The AWS Report, I spoke with AWS Evangelist Matt Wood to learn about his track on Big Data and Analytics at AWS re:Invent. The track sounds awesome and I hope to be able to attend some of the sessions: See you at re:Invent! — Jeff;
Read MoreLaunch EC2 Micro Instances in a Virtual Private Cloud
Judging from the number of requests that I have had for this particular combination of EC2 features, I’m expecting this to be a very popular post. You can now launch EC2 micro (t1.micro) instances within a Virtual Private Cloud (VPC). The AWS Free Usage Tier now extends to t1.micro instances running inside of a VPC. […]
Read MoreSAP HANA One – Now Available for Production Use on AWS
Earlier this year I briefly mentioned SAP HANA and the fact that it was available for developer use on AWS. Today, SAP announced HANA One, a deployment option for HANA that is certified for production use on AWS available now in the AWS Marketplace. You can run this powerful, in-memory database on EC2 for just […]
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