AWS News Blog
Category: Compute
X1 Instances for EC2 – Ready for Your Memory-Intensive Workloads
Many AWS customers are running memory-intensive big data, caching, and analytics workloads and have been asking us for EC2 instances with ever-increasing amounts of memory. Last fall, I first told you about our plans for the new X1 instance type. Today, we are announcing availability of this instance type with the launch of the x1.32xlarge […]
EC2 Run Command Update – Manage & Share Commands and More
The EC2 Run Command allows you to manage your EC2 instances in a convenient, scalable fashion (see my blog post, New EC2 Run Command – Remote Instance Management at Scale, for more information). Today we are making several enhancements to this feature: Document Management and Sharing -You can now create custom command documents and share […]
They’re Here – Longer EBS and Storage Gateway Resource IDs Now Available
Last November I let you know that were were planning to increase the length of the resource IDs for EC2 instances, reservations, EBS volumes, and snapshots in 2016. Early this year I showed you how to opt in to the new format for EC2 instances and EC2 reservations. Effective today you can now opt in […]
Machine Learning, Recommendation Systems, and Data Analysis at Cloud Academy
In today’s guest post, Alex Casalboni and Giacomo Marinangeli of Cloud Academy discuss the design and development of their new Inspire system. — Jeff; Our Challenge Mixing technology and content has been our mission at Cloud Academy since the very early days. We are builders and we love technology, but we also know content is […]
New – Managed Platform Updates for AWS Elastic Beanstalk
AWS Elastic Beanstalk simplifies the process of deploying and running web applications and web services. You simply upload your code and Elastic Beanstalk will take care of the details. This includes provisioning capacity, setting up load balancing and auto scaling, and arranging for application health monitoring. You can build Elastic Beanstalk applications using a variety […]
Experiment that Discovered the Higgs Boson Uses AWS to Probe Nature
My colleague Sanjay Padhi is part of the AWS Scientific Computing team. He wrote the guest post below to share the story of how AWS provided computational resources that aided in an important scientific discovery. — Jeff; The Higgs boson (sometimes referred to as the God Particle), responsible for providing insight into the origin of […]
New – CloudWatch Metrics for Spot Fleets
You can launch an EC2 Spot fleet with a couple of clicks. Once launched, the fleet allows you to draw resources from multiple pools of capacity, giving you access to cost-effective compute power regardless of the fleet size (from one instance to many thousands). For more information about this important EC2 feature, read my posts: […]
Using Enhanced RDS Monitoring with Datadog
Today’s guest post comes from K Young, Director of Strategic Initiatives at Datadog! — Jeff; AWS recently announced enhanced monitoring for Amazon RDS instances running MySQL, MariaDB, and Aurora. Enhanced monitoring includes over 50 new CPU, memory, file system, and disk I/O metrics which can be collected on a per-instance basis as frequently as once […]