AWS News Blog
Scaling Science: 1 Million Compute Hours in 1 week
For many scientists, the computer has become as important as the test tube, the centrifuge or the grad student in delivering ground breaking research. Whether screening for active cancer treatments or colliding atoms, the availability of compute cycles can significantly affect the time it takes for scientists to crunch their numbers. Indeed, compute resources are […]
App Developers – Get Ready for Japan!
Millions of our customers have used the Amazon Appstore in the US to discover and buy Android applications for their phones and tablets. We have recently expanded distribution beyond the US into the United Kingdom, Italy, France, Germany, and Spain. Continuing our international expansion, I’m pleased to announce that app developers can submit mobile apps […]
Mailbox Simulator for the Amazon Simple Email Service
Our customers have found Amazon SES to be straightforward to use, powerful, and cost effective. They are making heavy use of it! Amazon Simple Email Service (Amazon SES) greatly simplifies the task of sending bulk or transactional emails. You can send the same email to millions of recipients within minutes. Or, you can send personalized […]
Customize Elastic Beanstalk Using Configuration Files
Saad Ladki of the Elastic Beanstalk team is back with another guest post. Today, Saad talks about a customization feature that will allow you to customize the run-time configuration of your applications by installing packages and libraries, running commands, and editing files. — Jeff; A few weeks ago, we announced Python support for AWS Elastic […]
Amazon RDS – Now Available in the AWS Free Usage Tier
I’m a big fan of the Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS). I enjoy showing people just how easy it is to create, scale, and backup a DB Instance running MySQL, SQL Server, or Oracle Database with just a few clicks in the AWS Management Console. Our customers appreciate the fact that they can launch DB […]
AWS Week in Review – September 24, 2012
Let’s take a quick look at what happened in AWS-land last week: Monday, September 24 The good folks at Newvem published an article on Getting Started with AWS Direct Connect. Tuesday, September 25 NASDAQ OMX announced FinQloud, a cloud solution for the financial services industry. We introduced Provisioned IOPS for Amazon RDS. Wednesday, September 26 We announced that Amazon RDS now […]
Get Started With Oracle Applications Now With Our New Test Drive Program
One of the key advantages that customers and partners are telling us they really appreciate about AWS is its unique ability to cut down the time required to evaluate new software stacks. These “solution appliances” can now be easily deployed on AWS and evaluated by customers in hours or days, rather than in weeks or […]
Amazon RDS for Oracle Database – Now Starting at $30/Month
You can now create Amazon RDS database instances running Oracle Database on Micro instances. This new, option will allow you to build, test, and run your low-traffic database-backed applications at a cost starting at $30 per month ($0.04 per hour) using the License Included option. If you have a more intensive application, the micro instance […]