AWS News Blog
New – AWS Management Console Support for the Simple Email Service
The Amazon Simple Email Service gives you a simple and cost-effective way to send any volume of bulk or transactional email. We send millions of emails on behalf of thousands of Amazon SES customers each and every day. You can now access Amazon SES through the AWS Management Console. The new SES tab provides you […]
Read MoreElastic Load Balancing: More IPv6 Support, More Metrics, More IP Addresses
We have made some improvements to our Elastic Load Balancing product: IPv6 is now supported in the Asia Pacific (Singapore) and Asia Pacific (Tokyo) regions. Each Elastic Load Balancer reports six new metrics to Amazon CloudWatch. The DNS entry associated with an Elastic Load Balancer can now return up to eight IP addresses. IPv6 SupportEarlier […]
Read MoreNew – Use Your Microsoft BizSpark Licenses on AWS
It is a great time to be a software developer with an entrepreneurial mindset. You can get access to development tools, startup resources, and much more at no charge or at a very low cost these days. You don’t need to get venture capital or max out your credit cards in order to get started. […]
Read MoreIT-Lifeline – Disaster Recovery Using AWS
Matt Gerber,CEO of managed service provider IT-Lifeline spent some time talking about AWS on camera. Here’s the full video: Matt enumerates the three main benefits that AWS provides him: cost, elasticity, and time to market (sometimes saving 6 months to a year for a new offering). He also talks about security and compliance, and about […]
Read MoreRun Microsoft SQL Server 2012 (\Denali\) on AWS Now
Microsoft SQL Server 2012 (code named “Denali”) has a lot of really intriguing features including high availability, columnstore indexes, self-service Business Intelligence, faster full-text search, data visualization, and improved security and compliance. Consult the feature guide for more information. In order to make it as easy as possible for you to test your applications with […]
Read MoreAmazon Simple Queue Service: Batch Operations, Delay Queue, and Message Timers
We have added some nice new features to the Simple Queue Service. You can now use batch operations to send and delete messages with greater efficiency and at a lower cost. You can make any of your queues into a delay queue for message queuing, and you can also use message timers to set […]
Read MoreFree Live Stream of AWS GovCloud Summit II
Due to an overwhelming response, the live registration for tomorrow’s AWS GovCloud Summit has been closed. We will be streaming the entire event and I invite you to sign up now. The event will feature keynote addresses by GSA CIO Casey Coleman and Amazon.com CTO Werner Vogels, customer presentations, how-to sessions, information on FISMA and […]
Read MoreLaunch EC2 Spot Instances in a Virtual Private Cloud
Over the past two months, we have had the opportunity to share several exciting developments regarding Spot Instances. We have told you how to Run Amazon Elastic MapReduce on EC2 Spot Instances, we published Four New Amazon EC2 Spot Instance Videos, and we outlined the excitement around Scientific Computing with EC2 Spot Instances. Others in […]
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