Category: Amazon EC2

Our hearts go out to those who have suffered through the recent events in Japan. I was relieved to hear from my friends and colleagues there in the days following the earthquake. I’m very impressed by the work that the Japan AWS User Group (JAWS) has done to help some of the companies, schools, and […]

We continue to listen to our customers, and we work hard to deliver the services, features, and business models based on what they tell us is most important to them. With hundreds of thousands of customers using Amazon EC2 in various ways, we are able to see trends and patterns in the requests, and to […]

Update (July 2019) – Fixed links to the video tutorial. We’ve created a new video tutorial, which describes how to setup a cluster of high performance compute nodes in under 10 minutes. Follow along with the tutorial to get a feel for how to provision high performance systems with Amazon EC2 – we’ll even cover […]

We released an updated version of the Amazon Linux AMI earlier this week. It is available in all AWS Regions for all instance types. Here’s what’s new: Default compiler upgraded from GCC 4.1 to GCC 4.4. The AMI kernel is now based on 2.6.35.11 release. An HVM AMI was released to support the Cluster Compute […]

Today we are adding new options for our customers running Windows and SQL Server environments on Amazon EC2. In addition to running Windows Server 2003 and 2008, you can now run now run Windows Server 2008 R2. Sharing the kernel with Windows 7, this release of Windows includes additional Active Directory features, support for version […]

You’ve been able to use the Amazon Virtual Private Cloud to construct a secure bridge between your existing IT infrastructure and the AWS cloud using an encrypted VPN connection. All communication between Amazon EC2 instances running within a particular VPC and the outside world (the Internet) was routed across the VPN connection. Today we are […]

We’ve added some new features to the EC2 tab of the AWS Management Console to make it even more powerful and even easier to use. You can now change the instance type of a stopped, EBS-backed EC2 instance. This means that you can scale up or scale down as your needs change. The new instance […]

You can now run SUSE Linux Enterprise Server on EC2’s Cluster Compute and Cluster GPU instances. As I noted in the post that I wrote last year when this distribution became available on the other instance types, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server is a proven, commercially supported Linux platform that is ideal for development, test, and […]