Category: Compute

We have just published the Microsoft SharePoint Server on AWS Reference Architecture White Paper. This white paper discusses general concepts regarding how to use SharePoint services on AWS and provides detailed technical guidance on how to configure, deploy, and run a SharePoint Server farm on AWS. It illustrates reference architecture for common SharePoint Server deployment […]

Let’s face it. Sometimes you just need a local server. Perhaps your office is too cold, or you have the urge to pull the cover off and reseat the memory. Or, you might have some data on floppy disks that you simply cannot live without. Because we will leave no stone unturned in our efforts […]

We have received tremendous positive feedback from customers and partners since we launched Amazon DynamoDB two months ago. Amazon DynamoDB enables customers to offload the administrative burden of operating and scaling a highly available distributed database cluster while only paying for the actual system resources they consume. We also received a ton of great feedback […]

We’ve just released version 2012.03 of the Amazon Linux AMI. Coming six months after our previous major release, this version of the AMI is loaded with new features that EC2 users will enjoy. One of our goals for this release has been to make available multiple major versions of important packages. This allows code that […]

There’s a new coding challenge on CloudSpokes with a top prize of $2000 and other prizes ranging from $1000 to $100. The goal: Create tools to help more people to make use of Amazon EC2 Spot Instances! This is an opportunity to be imaginative and creative, and to show us what you can do. You […]

We’ve received great feedback from customers on the recent AWS price reductions. I’ve personally received a number of great stories from customers who are using AWS to reduce the cost of running their business. We’ve written up two of these recent cost savings stories as AWS case studies. foursquare Labs, Inc. and Global Blue may […]

A few days ago we launched a simple, yet very important new feature on our AWS website: the self-service AWS AMI catalog. As you know, AMIs are disk images that contain a pre-configured operating system and virtual application software, and they serve as the required base to launch an EC2 instance. Before this change in […]

I’m pleased to be able to tell you that AWS Elastic Beanstalk now supports PHP and Git deployment. Elastic Beanstalk and PHPAWS Elastic Beanstalk makes it easy for you to quickly deploy and manage applications in the AWS cloud. You simply upload your application, and Elastic Beanstalk automatically handles all of the details associated with […]