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Cloudkick – Server Management and Monitoring
Alex Polvi gave me a demo of the newest release of Cloudkick last week. Cloudkick lets you manage and monitor server instances running on Amazon EC2 and other cloud providers using a single, unified interface. Instances can be tagged, and the tags can be used to perform collective actions. Using a small, low-overhead agent installed […]
Read MoreJob Openings in AWS Developer Resources
I’d like to highlight a few of the nearly one hundred open positions on the AWS team. If you are a software engineer, manager, technical writer, program manager, or product manager and you like to work on cutting-edge projects with world-scale impact, you owe it to yourself to look at these positions. If you are […]
Read MoreCloud MapReduce from Accenture
Accenture is a Global Solution Provider for AWS. As part of their plan to help their clients extend their IT provisioning capabilities into the cloud, they offer a complete Cloud Computing Suite including the Accenture Cloud Computing Accelerator, the Cloud Computing Assessment Tool, the Cloud Computing Data Processing Solution, and the Accenture Web Scaler. Huan […]
Read MoreAmazon RDS Tech Tips
The Amazon RDS team will be publishing a series of tech tips this year. Tech Tip I covers the creation and use of on-demand test databases and Tech Tip II describes best practices for the use of RDS security groups. You can also follow the RDS team on Twitter as @amazonrds . If you have […]
Read MoreNew Whitepaper: Architecting for the Cloud: Best Practices
Update (November 11, 2020) – New link for the whitepaper. I am very happy to announce our new AWS whitepaper “Architecting for the Cloud: Best Practices.” For several years, software architects have discovered and implemented several concepts and best practices to build highly scalable applications. Today, these concepts are even more applicable because of ever-growing […]
Read MoreMore on ADFS with Amazon EC2
Thanks to those who wrote to me with ideas about using ADFS to federate with Windows instances running on Amazon EC2. My original post was picked up by a couple other blogs, which Id like to acknowledge here: ADFS / WIF on Amazon EC2 by Eugenio Pace (part of the ClaimsID Project) A […]
Read MoreUpcoming webinar: \Cloud Security for Dummies\ hosted by SIIA
Good day, everyone. The Software and Information Industry Association (SIIA) is hosting a webinar about cloud security on Tuesday 19 January 2010 at 12:30 PM EST/9:30 AM PST. I’m one of the panelists. Here’s a brief blurb and a list of the participants: Cloud webinar series: Cloud Security for Dummies Security and cloud computing have […]
Read MoreNew Job Positions in Singapore for Amazon Web Services APAC
As you know, Amazon Web Services is rapidly expanding in the Asia Pacific region. We have a number of open positions with base in Singapore. Here are the links to the positions: Solution Architect Sales Account Manager Data Center Technician Data Center Manager If you’re interested and want to join our fast-growing AWS family, apply […]
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