Category: Compute

Max Spevack of the AWS Kernel and Operating Systems (KaOS) team brings news of the latest Amazon Linux AMI. — Jeff; Its been another six months, so its time for a fresh release of the Amazon Linux AMI.  Today, we are pleased to announce that the Amazon Linux AMI 2013.09 is available. This release marks […]

By making good use of Amazon EC2’s Reserved Instances (perhaps guided by the recommendations of the AWS Trusted Advisor or equally capable third-party tools) you can lower your compute costs while also reserving capacity. Today we are making the Reserved Instance model even more flexible by giving you the power to modify your Reserved Instances […]

I’m happy to announce that the AWS Free Usage Tier now includes 750 hours of SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) usage on a t1.micro instance. If you are eligible for the free usage tier you now have the option to run SLES as part of your 750 hours of monthly Linux usage. You can use […]

Chris Barclay sent me a nice guest post to announce that AWS OpsWorks is now available in the Virtual Private Cloud. — Jeff; I am pleased to announce support for using AWS OpsWorks with Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC). AWS OpsWorks is a DevOps solution that makes it easy to deploy, customize and manage […]

VPC So FarThe Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) lets you provision a logically isolated section of the AWS Cloud where you can launch AWS resources in a virtual network that you define. Earlier this year, in my post Virtual Private Clouds for Everyone, I outlined some important changes to Amazon EC2 which combine its ease […]

As the third installement in our series of white papers that are designed to show you how to run popular relational and NoSQL databases on AWS, I am pleased to tell you that our new Couchbase on AWS white paper is now available. Written by AWS Solution Architects Kyle Lichtenberg and Miles Ward, this detailed […]

My colleague Lesley Mbogo is a Senior Product Manager on the Elastic Load Balancing team. She sent along the post below to tell you all about an important new feature — support for the Proxy Protocol. — Jeff; Starting today, Elastic Load Balancing (ELB) supports Proxy Protocol version 1. You can now identify the originating […]

With AWS Elastic Beanstalk, you can deploy, monitor, and grow your application quickly and easily. Its management console is an essential piece of the overall experience and helps make complex tasks simple. Today, Im happy to introduce a redesign of the Elastic Beanstalk management console that streamlines common tasks further and adds new functionality that […]

I’m happy to announce that we are reducing the prices for Amazon EC2 Dedicated Instances. Launched in 2011, Dedicated Instances run on hardware dedicated to a single customer account. They are ideal for workloads where corporate policies or industry regulations dictate physical isolation from instances run by other customers at the host hardware level. Like […]

With AWS being put to use in an ever-widening set of use cases across organizations of all shapes and sizes, the need for additional control over the permissions granted to users and to applications has come through loud and clear.  This need for control becomes especially pronounced at the enterprise level. You don’t want the […]