Category: Amazon EC2

Over the past six or seven years I have had the opportunity to see customers of all sizes use Amazon EC2 to power their applications, including high traffic web sites, Genome analysis platforms, and SAP applications. I have learned that the developers of the most successful applications and services use a rigorous performance testing and […]

Tom Rizzo is back with another Windows Wednesday post, announcing a new feature that will make it even easier for you to monitor your EC2 instances running Windows. — Jeff; With our continuing investment in making AWS the best place to run Windows and Windows workloads, we are making an announcement today that makes running […]

I am happy to announce that EBS Provisioned IOPS volumes now support up to 4,000 IOPS. This represents a fourfold increase from the original Provisioned IOPS volume performance since last year’s launch. You can now dial it up to 4,000 IOPS and up to 1 TB of storage per Provisioned IOPS volume. You no longer […]

Amazon Coins are a new virtual currency that will be made available to Kindle Fire users this coming May. They can be used to pay for apps and for most in-app purchases. If your app runs on the Kindle Fire, it is eligible for Amazon Coins with no further work on your part. If it […]

Version 6.4 of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) is now available as an Amazon Machine Image (AMI) for use on all EC2 instance types in all AWS Regions. With this release, AMIs are available for 32 and 64-bit PVM (paravirtualized) and 64-bit HVM (hardware-assisted virtualization). The new HVM support means that you can now run […]

AWS Elastic Beanstalk for .NET now supports the Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), seamlessly integrates with the Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS), and can be customized using configuration files. Elastic Beanstalk allows you to easily deploy and manage .NET applications on AWS. Because Elastic Beanstalk leverages Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows Server 2012, you […]

The AWS team has been working hard to build powerful and exciting new features for Windows on AWS. In the last month we have released  support for SQL Server AlwaysOn Availability Groups, a beta of the AWS Diagnostics for Microsoft Windows Server, and new drivers for our virtual instances that improve performance and increase the […]

The AWS tagging feature helps you to label and identify your cloud resources. In today’s guest post, Senior Product Manager Derek Lyon reveals the details of a new Tags page in the EC2 console. — Jeff; We are adding a new Tags page in the EC2 Console that will help you browse your EC2 resources […]