AWS News Blog
CloudCamp coming to Seattle
In just two short weeks CloudCamp is coming to Seattle…more specifically, to Amazon! We’re hosting the Camp at our new facilities in South Lake Union. If you’ve never been to CloudCamp before, now’s the perfect opportunity to experience one. Unlike traditional conferences, you — the attendees — get to decide the topics of the meeting. […]
Read MoreAWS Receives ISO 27001 Certification
We announced the successful completion of our first SAS 70 Type II audit just about a year ago. Earlier this year I talked about an application that had successfully completed the FISMA Low assessment and then received the necessary Authority to Operate. Today I am happy to announce that we have been awarded ISO 27001 […]
Read MoreNew EC2 Instance Type – The Cluster GPU Instance
If you have a mid-range or high-end video card in your desktop PC, it probably contains a specialized processor called a GPU or Graphics Processing Unit. The instruction set and memory architecture of a GPU are designed to handle the types of operations needed to display complex graphics at high speed. The instruction sets typically […]
Read MoreFedora 14 AMIs for Amazon EC2
Earlier this month the Fedora Community released Fedora 14. At that time they also released an Amazon Machine Image (AMI) for EC2. This is pretty big news — Fedora is one of the most popular Linux distributions around, with millions of copies running worldwide. The new version of Fedora includes new desktop, system administration, and […]
Read MoreAWS Office Hours – December 8, 2010 – Topic: Amazon RDS
The first AWS Office Hours session focused on Amazon EC2. Although I was scheduled to host the event, a sudden need for dental surgery made room for Jinesh Varia and Steve Riley to step in! Here’s a screen shot from the event (click on it to watch a replay): From all accounts the event went […]
Read MoreCloud Licensing Models That Exist Today
The topic of “Licensing in the Cloud” is probably the most interesting business-technology topic, according to me. If you are an enterprise customer looking to migrate your applications to the cloud, licensing is probably one of the first topics you would want to discuss. The Amazon Web Services team is working with many third-party ISVs […]
Read MoreConverting an S3-Backed Windows AMI to an EBS-Backed AMI
If you are running a Windows Server 2003 AMI it is most likely S3-backed. If you’d like to migrate it to an EBS-backed AMI so that you can take advantage of new features such as the ability to stop it and then restart it later, I’ve got some good news for you. We’ve just put […]
Read MoreSecurity, compliance, and governance in the cloud with AWS and Freedom OSS
Freedom OSS, one of our solutions integrators, specializes in helping enterprise customers and Federal agencies build and deploy secure, compliant applications on AWS. On Tuesday 16 November, AWS and Freedom OSS are joining forces in a half-day event in Chicago. Presenters include: Werner Vogels, Amazon Web Services CTO Max Yankelevich, Freedom OSS Chief Cloud Architect […]
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