Author: Jeff Barr

Many of our customers create large numbers of EC2 resources. Some of them run hundreds or thousands of EC2 instances, create thousands of EBS volumes, and retain tens of thousands of EBS volume snapshots. This growth has meant that the corresponding Describe APIs (DescribeInstances, DescribeVolumes, and DescribeSnapshots, to name a few) can return results that […]

It is really easy to start up that first Amazon EC2 instance, and then another, and another as you find more and more ways to put it to use. It is really easy to create some EBS volumes, attach them to your instances, and to store lots and lots of data on them. The same […]

The Amazon EC2 API includes functions which create resources such as instances, disk volumes and snapshots, IP addresses, and key pairs. Some of these functions create the resources in a synchronous fashion and you can determine the success or failure of the request by examining the value returned by the call. Other functions work in […]

You can now import your own RSA keypair (or the public half, to be precise) for use with your Amazon EC2 instances. Why would you want to do this? Here are a couple of reasons: Trust – By importing your own keypair you can ensure that you have complete control over your keys. Security -You […]

It is great to see our customers putting EC2’s new Cluster Compute instance type to use in High Performance Computing (HPC) scenarios. Here are two example applications: MathWorks / MATLAB The MATLAB team at MathWorks tested performance scaling of the backslash (“\”) matrix division operator to solve for x in the equation A*x = b. […]

Yes, you read that right. We now have a Linux AMI tuned for AWS! Many of our customers have asked us for a simple starting point for launching their Linux applications inside of Amazon EC2 that is easy to use, regularly maintained, and optimized for the Amazon EC2 environment. Starting today, customers can use Amazon […]

I’ve got two items that will be of interest to Amazon S3 users: console support for RRS notifications, and AWS Import/Export support for 8TB devices. Console Support for RRS A couple of months ago I blogged about the integration between Amazon S3 and Amazon SNS. This integration allows S3 to send a notification to an […]

I cant tell you how many of you have told me youd like to run smaller applications at lower cost on EC2. These applications are typically low traffic/low throughputweb applications, web site hosting, various types of periodic cron jobs and the like. Im happy to say we have now built an instance type exactly for […]