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Amazon RDS for MySQL – Promote Read Replica
As I described in my original blog post, you can easily create and manage read replicas using Amazon RDS for MySQL. From the AWS Management Console, you simply right-click on the database instance of interest and choose the Create Read Replica option: Adding one or more Read Replicas gives you the ability to handle an […]
Amazon RDS – SQL Server SSL Support
As you can probably tell from the pace of releases on this blog, the Amazon RDS team has been designing, implementing, and deploying new features at a very rapid clip. They’ve added a number of data protection and security features to create a product that’s a great match for enterprise deployments. Today, we’re announcing SSL […]
Lots of New Features for AWS GovCloud (US)
AWS GovCloud (US) is a gated community cloud designed to support the compliance needs of customer workloads with direct or indirect ties to U.S. Government functions, services, or regulations. The AWS GovCloud (US) framework adheres to U.S. International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) requirements. Workloads that are appropriate for the AWS GovCloud (US) region include […]
The AWS Report – Balan Subramanian, Amazon Simple Workflow Service
For today’s episode of The AWS Report, I chatted with Balan Subramanian, Product Manager for the Amazon Simple Workflow Service. We discussed the Simple Workflow concept, and how it is possible to use it to build scalable, fault-tolerant application workflows. We started out easy, with the “hello world” of workflows; Balan told me how it […]
AWS Week in Review – October 1, 2012
Let’s take a quick look at what happened in AWS-land last week: Monday, October 1 We launched the AWS Test Drive program to make it easier for you to get started with Oracle applications. My UK counterpart Ryan Shuttleworth posted the slides from his AWS for the Retail Industry webinar. Tuesday, October 2 We released a new version of […]
Identity and Access Management for the AWS Marketplace
AWS Marketplace now supports role-based permissions and management via AWS Identity and Access Management. Let’s review the key terms before diving in to the details: AWS Marketplace makes it easy to find, buy, and 1-click deploy software to the cloud, featuring hundreds of popular commercial and open-source software products for developers, IT admins, and business […]
AWS Global Start-Up Challenge – How’s Your Application Coming Along?
With just over one month until the entries close for the AWS Global Start-Up Challenge, theres still plenty of time to submit your start-up for consideration. This year, we are seeing lots of great applications in the Consumer Applications and Business Applications categories, but not as many for Gaming and Big Data and HPC. This […]
Amazon S3 – Support for Website Redirects
Our friends at Boostability have been using Amazon S3 to help their clients build websites hosted on Amazon S3. Boostability provides search engine optimization technology and fulfillment services to agencies, media companies and phone book providers. I recently chatted with Jared Turner, CTO for Boostability. He told me that they needed a solution that was […]