AWS News Blog
Auto Scaling – Notifications, Recurrence, and More Control
We’ve made some important updates to EC2’s Auto Scaling feature. You now have additional control of the auto scaling process, and you can receive additional information about scaling operations. Here’s a summary: You can now elect to receive notification from Amazon SNS when Auto Scaling launches or terminates EC2 instances. You can now set up […]
Read MoreAWS Summer Startups: Mediology
Over the summer months, we’d like to share a few stories from startups around the world: what are they working on and how they are using the cloud to get things done. Today, we’re profiling Mediology Software from India! The Story2010 was the first year when we allowed countries from Asia Pacific to enter the […]
Read MoreAdditional CloudWatch Metrics for Amazon SQS and Amazon SNS
I spent yesterday morning working in a coffee shop while waiting to have an informal discussion with a candidate for an open position. From my vantage point in the corner I was able to watch the shop’s “processing pipeline” in action. There were three queues and three types of processing! The customers were waiting to […]
Read MoreAmazon S3 – More Than 449 Billion Objects
As of the end of the second quarter of 2011, Amazon S3 holds more than 449 billion objects and processes up to 290,000 requests per second for them at peak times. Here’s a chart: No matter how you look at it, that’s a lot of objects! Here are a few ways to put it into […]
Read MoreContent Workflow in the Cloud – Hollywood, California
Next week (July 27th to be precise) I will be speaking at a special event in Hollywood, California. Titled Enabling Content Workflows in the Cloud, the event is sponsored by AWS and Aspera. I’ll be presenting, as willl Michelle Munson (President, CEO, and co-founder of Aspera). If you work in media, digital media, or entertainment […]
Read MoreAmazon Simple Email Service Now Supports Attachments
You can now use the Amazon Simple Email Service to send email message that include attachments such as images or documents. There are no new “attachment” APIs. Instead, you simply use the existing SendRawEmail function to send a message that includes one or more MIME parts. Each part of the message must be of a […]
Read MorejReport on EC2
Christie from Jinfonet emailed to tell me about their newest video, Cloud Reporting from Amazon EC2: Per their recent press release, their JReport product can be installed on one or more EC2 instances with linear scaling as additional instances are added. A clustered installation of JReport can include hundreds of EC2 nodes and is able […]
Read MoreAWS Events for July 2011
Here’s what we have in store for the month of July (these are late; I was on vacation): Webinars: July 13 – AWS Office Hours: Development and Test – 9:00 AM PST July 21 – Introduction to Amazon Web Services – 9:00 AM PST July 25 – Predicting Costs on Amazon Web Services – 9:00 […]
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