Category: Amazon VPC

If you use or plan to use Amazon EC2, you need to read this post! History LessonWay back in the beginning (OK, 2006) we launched Amazon EC2. When you launched an instance we gave it a public IP address and a DNS hostname. You had the ability to create a Security Group for ingress filtering […]

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 […]

Judging from the number of requests that I have had for this particular combination of EC2 features, I’m expecting this to be a very popular post. You can now launch EC2 micro (t1.micro) instances within a Virtual Private Cloud (VPC). The AWS Free Usage Tier now extends to t1.micro instances running inside of a VPC. […]

The Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) gives you the power to create a private, isolated section of the AWS Cloud. You have full control of network addressing. Each of your VPCs can include subnets (with access control lists), route tables, and gateways to your existing network and to the Internet. You can connect your VPC […]

As you can tell from some of my recent posts, we’re adding new features to the Virtual Private Cloud and to the Relational Database Service at a very rapid clip. Today’s release involves both of these services! You can now use launch RDS database instances running Microsoft SQL Server inside of a Virtual Private Cloud […]

The Amazon RDS team is rolling out new features at a very rapid clip. Here’s the latest and greatest: Oracle Data Pump Customers have asked us to make it easier to import their existing databases into Amazon RDS. We are making it easy for you to move data on and off of the DB Instances […]

Amazon EC2 instances within a Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) can now have multiple IP addresses. This oft-requested feature builds upon several other parts of AWS including Elastic IP Addresses and Elastic Network Interfaces. Use CasesHere are some of the things that you can do with multiple IP addresses: Host multiple SSL websites on a single […]

Today’s guest post comes to you courtesy of Spencer Dillard, Product Manager for AWS Elastic Load Balancing. — Jeff; One of the challenges weve heard about many times from customers is the challenge of load balancing between tiers of an application. While Elastic Load Balancing addresses many of the complexities of building a highly available […]