Category: Amazon EC2

AWS customers love to share their plans and their infrastructure needs with us. We, in turn, love to listen and to do our best to meet those needs. A look at the EC2 instance history should tell you a lot about our ability to listen to our customers and to respond with an increasingly broad […]

Update July 2021 – Spot Instances with a defined duration (also known as Spot blocks) are no longer available to new customers as of July 1, 2021. For customers that have previously used the feature, we will continue to support Spot Instances with a defined duration until December 31, 2022. If your workload is interruption […]

Sometimes business enables technology, and sometimes technology enables business! If you are migrating from an existing environment to AWS, you may have purchased volume licenses for software that is licensed for use on a server with a certain number of sockets or physical cores. Or, you may be required to run it on a specific […]

There’s a lot of buzz about Spot instances these days. Customers are really starting to understand the power that comes with the ability to name their own price for compute power! After launching the Spot fleet API in May to allow you to manage thousands of Spot instances with a single request, we followed up […]

My colleague Max Spevack runs the team that produces the Amazon Linux AMI. He wrote the guest post below to announce the newest release! — Jeff; The Amazon Linux AMI is a supported and maintained Linux image for use on Amazon EC2. We offer new major versions of the Amazon Linux AMI after a public […]

During my trip to the AWS Loft earlier this month, I spoke to 8 startups for the AWS Podcast.  Almost all of them told me that they are making use of Docker on AWS, either directly or via Amazon EC2 Container Service. They love the flexibility that it gives them, and appreciate the ease with […]

Last week I spoke to a technically-oriented audience at the Pacific Northwest PHP Conference. As part of my talk, I described cloud computing as a mix of technology and business, and made my point by talking about Spot instances. The audience looked somewhat puzzled at first, but as I explained further I could see their […]

Many AWS applications use Elastic Load Balancing to distribute traffic to a farm of EC2 instances. An architecture of this type is highly scalable since instances can be added, removed, or replaced in a non-disruptive way. Using a load balancer also gives the application the ability to keep on running if an instance encounters an […]