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Category: Amazon EC2
Amazon EC2 High Storage (HS1) Instances Now Available in Sydney and Singapore
The EC2 instances on the Amazon EC2 Instance Types menu are designed to run a wide variety of workloads. You can now launch hs1.8xlarge instances in the Asia Pacific (Sydney) and Asia Pacific (Singapore) Regions using the On-Demand or Reserved Instance pricing models. You can now run your Amazon Redshift clusters, storage-intensive Hadoop jobs, and […]
Amazon Linux AMI 2013.09 Now Available
Max Spevack of the AWS Kernel and Operating Systems (KaOS) team brings news of the latest Amazon Linux AMI. — Jeff; Its been another six months, so its time for a fresh release of the Amazon Linux AMI. Today, we are pleased to announce that the Amazon Linux AMI 2013.09 is available. This release marks […]
New – Modify EC2 Reserved Instance Reservations
By making good use of Amazon EC2’s Reserved Instances (perhaps guided by the recommendations of the AWS Trusted Advisor or equally capable third-party tools) you can lower your compute costs while also reserving capacity. Today we are making the Reserved Instance model even more flexible by giving you the power to modify your Reserved Instances […]
Run SUSE Enterprise Linux Server Using the AWS Free Usage Tier
I’m happy to announce that the AWS Free Usage Tier now includes 750 hours of SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) usage on a t1.micro instance. If you are eligible for the free usage tier you now have the option to run SLES as part of your 750 hours of monthly Linux usage. You can use […]
AWS OpsWorks in the Virtual Private Cloud
Chris Barclay sent me a nice guest post to announce that AWS OpsWorks is now available in the Virtual Private Cloud. — Jeff; I am pleased to announce support for using AWS OpsWorks with Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC). AWS OpsWorks is a DevOps solution that makes it easy to deploy, customize and manage […]
Additional IP Address Flexibility in the Virtual Private Cloud
VPC So FarThe Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) lets you provision a logically isolated section of the AWS Cloud where you can launch AWS resources in a virtual network that you define. Earlier this year, in my post Virtual Private Clouds for Everyone, I outlined some important changes to Amazon EC2 which combine its ease […]
Running Couchbase on AWS – New White Paper
As the third installement in our series of white papers that are designed to show you how to run popular relational and NoSQL databases on AWS, I am pleased to tell you that our new Couchbase on AWS white paper is now available. Written by AWS Solution Architects Kyle Lichtenberg and Miles Ward, this detailed […]
Elastic Load Balancing adds Support for Proxy Protocol
My colleague Lesley Mbogo is a Senior Product Manager on the Elastic Load Balancing team. She sent along the post below to tell you all about an important new feature — support for the Proxy Protocol. — Jeff; Starting today, Elastic Load Balancing (ELB) supports Proxy Protocol version 1. You can now identify the originating […]