Category: Amazon EC2

Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) lets you create your own logically isolated set of Amazon EC2 instances and connect it to your existing network using an IPsec VPN connection. This new offering lets you take advantage of the low cost and flexibility of AWS while leveraging the investment you have already made in your […]

Our customers are putting the Amazon EC2 Reserved Instances to use in many different ways. Here are some of the usage patterns that they’ve told us about: Steady State Usage – These customers have applications which require a fixed number of servers to be available at all times. Reserved Instances are advantageous for customers who […]

Mike from Cirrhus9 wrote to let me know that they’ll be conducting a webinar on August 12th to discuss their new Qualified Machine Image (QMI) for the Life Science and Pharmaceutical industries. The QMIs are Amazon EC2 AMIs with complete installation and operation documentation. Currently in beta testing, the QMI is designed to help organizations […]

Its always interesting to see what people use Amazon Web Services for. This blog post is on one hand a look at an interesting example; however it is also a chance to participate in a social experiment. Adam Ginsburg from Sydney Australia set up a form to let you vote on what he should do […]

Here are some good resources for current and potential users of our Elastic Load Balancing, Auto Scaling, and Amazon CloudWatch features: Version 1.8a of the popular Boto library for AWS now supports all three of the new features. Written in Python, Boto provides access to Amazon EC2, Amazon S3, Amazon SQS, Amazon Mechanical Turk, Amazon […]

Earlier this year I wrote about Amazon Elastic MapReduce and the ways in which it can be used to process large data sets on a cluster of processors. Since the announcement, our customers have wholeheartedly embraced the service and have been doing some very impressive work with it (more on this in a moment). Today […]

Recently I blogged about The Server Labs, a consultancy that specializes in high-performance computing including on Amazon Web Services. Here’s another story that I found fascinating: nominally it is about how The Server Labs uses Amazon Web Services as a scale-out solution that also implements Oracle databases; however its really about space exploration (or should […]

Amazon Web Services, CohesiveFT, and RightScale will participate in a webinar titled “How to Create Secure Test and Dev Environments on the Cloud.” Along with Michael Crandell and Edward Goldberg of RightScale, Simone Brunozzi of Amazon Web Services and Patrick Kerpan of CohesiveFT will show you how you can save time and money by running […]