Category: Amazon EC2

We launched Amazon EC2 Container Service last fall at AWS re:Invent and made it available in production form this past April. We’ve made a lot of enhancements since then and I thought it would be a good time to recap them for you. AWS customers are already making good use of EC2 Container Service and […]

Auto Scaling helps you to build systems that respond to changes in the demand for compute power by launching additional Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances or terminating existing ones. As I was thinking about this post, I thought it would be fun to deconstruct Auto Scaling to ensure that I (and you) have […]

EC2’s R3 instances are designed to provide you with the best price per GiB of RAM, along with high memory performance. I am happy to be able to announce that they are now available in the South America (São Paulo) region, in two sizes. Here are the specs: Instance Name vCPU Count RAM SSD Storage […]

I often point to EC2 Spot Instances as a feature that can only be implemented at world-scale with any degree of utility. Unless you have a massive amount of compute power and a multitude of customers spread across every time zone in the world, with a wide variety of workloads, you simply won’t have the […]

We launched the T2 instances last summer (see my post, New Low Cost EC2 Instances with Burstable Performance for more information). These instances give you a generous amount of baseline capacity and the ability to automatically and transparently scale up to full-core processing power on an as-needed basis. The bursting model is based on “CPU […]

You can now launch SQL Server Enterprise Edition on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) using a new, pre-configured AMI (Amazon Machine Image). This edition of SQL Server offers some new and unique features including: High Availability – You can configure a primary database and up to four active, readable secondary databases into an Always-On […]

We launched Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) with a single instance type (m1.small) way back in 2006! Since then, we have added many new types in response to customer demand, enabled by improvements in memory and processor technology (see my recent post, EC2 Instance History, for a look back in time). Today we are […]

I received an interesting tweet last night. Steve Goldsmith of ITOC Australia (an APN Advanced Consulting Partner and recipient of an AWS Customer Obsession award earlier this year) asked me if I had a historical timeline of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instance launches: I didn’t have one, but it seemed like a worthwhile […]