Category: Compute

It is really easy to start up that first Amazon EC2 instance, and then another, and another as you find more and more ways to put it to use. It is really easy to create some EBS volumes, attach them to your instances, and to store lots and lots of data on them. The same […]

The Amazon EC2 API includes functions which create resources such as instances, disk volumes and snapshots, IP addresses, and key pairs. Some of these functions create the resources in a synchronous fashion and you can determine the success or failure of the request by examining the value returned by the call. Other functions work in […]

You can now import your own RSA keypair (or the public half, to be precise) for use with your Amazon EC2 instances. Why would you want to do this? Here are a couple of reasons: Trust – By importing your own keypair you can ensure that you have complete control over your keys. Security -You […]

It is great to see our customers putting EC2’s new Cluster Compute instance type to use in High Performance Computing (HPC) scenarios. Here are two example applications: MathWorks / MATLAB The MATLAB team at MathWorks tested performance scaling of the backslash (“\”) matrix division operator to solve for x in the equation A*x = b. […]

Yes, you read that right. We now have a Linux AMI tuned for AWS! Many of our customers have asked us for a simple starting point for launching their Linux applications inside of Amazon EC2 that is easy to use, regularly maintained, and optimized for the Amazon EC2 environment. Starting today, customers can use Amazon […]

I cant tell you how many of you have told me youd like to run smaller applications at lower cost on EC2. These applications are typically low traffic/low throughputweb applications, web site hosting, various types of periodic cron jobs and the like. Im happy to say we have now built an instance type exactly for […]

The AWS Management Console now supports the Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC). You can now create and manage a VPC and all of the associated resources including subnets, DHCP Options Sets, Customer Gateways, VPN Gateways and the all-important VPN Connection from the comfort of your browser. Put it all together and you can create a […]

We’re always looking for ways to make AWS an even better value for our customers. If you’ve been reading this blog for an extended period of time you know that we reduce prices on our services from time to time. Effective September 1, 2010, we’ve reduced the On-Demand and Reserved Instance prices on the m2.2xlarge […]