Category: Amazon EC2

For this episode of The AWS Report, I interviewed Adam Gray, Senior Product Manager on the Amazon EC2 team, to learn more about Elastic MapReduce, Hive, and Pig: As you can see from the video, Seattle’s famous Space Needle was hidden in clouds during our shoot. — Jeff;

Please note: We have updated the Amazon EC2 Spot pricing model as of November, 2017. The new pricing model simplifies purchasing without bidding and with fewer interruptions. Click here to learn more about the updated pricing model. Part of our modus operandi at AWS is to help customers lower the costs of operating their infrastructure. When […]

It is time to expand the AWS footprint once again, with a new Region in Sydney, Australia. AWS customers in Australia can now enjoy fast, low-latency access to the suite of AWS infrastructure services. New Region The new Sydney Region supports the following AWS services: A Tranquil Beach – Shoal Bay, Australia Amazon Elastic Compute […]

Stephen Elliott Talks About EC2 Spot Instances If you have used EC2 Spot Instances in a unique way, you need to enter the Amazon EC2 Spotathon. This is an open-ended coding challenge designed to allow you to show off what you have done (and are doing) with Spot Instances. We’re looking for entrants from a […]

When we launched Provisioned IOPS for EBS earlier this year (blog post, EBS home page) we promised even more IOPS (Input/Output Operations Per second) over time. Time moves fast on the AWS team, and I’m happy to announce that you can now provision up to 2,000 IOPS per EBS volume (double the previous limit of […]

We launched Amazon EC2 with a single instance type (the venerable m1.small) in 2006. Over the years we have added many new instance types in order to allow our customers to run a very wide variety of applications and workloads. The Second Generation Standard InstancesToday we are continuing that practice, with the addition of a […]

In this episode of The AWS Report, I spoke with Matt Lull, Managing Director, Global Strategic Alliances, for Citrix to learn more about their cloud strategy. We talked about their line of virtualization products including Xen, XenServer, CloudBridge, and the Citrix NetScaler. After that we talked about the concept of desktop virtualization, and Matt told […]

In this episode of The AWS Report, I spoke with AWS Evangelist Matt Wood to learn about his track on Big Data and Analytics at AWS re:Invent. The track sounds awesome and I hope to be able to attend some of the sessions: See you at re:Invent! — Jeff;