Category: Compute

The AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS) provides you with seamless, centralized control over your encryption keys. As I noted when we launched the service (see my post, New AWS Key Management Service, for more information), this service gives you a new option for data protection and relieves you of many of the more onerous […]

We have added another AWS Quick Start Reference Deployment. The new SAP Business One, Version for SAP HANA document will show you how to get on the fast track to plan, deploy, and configure this enterprise resource planning (ERP) solution. It is powered by SAP HANA, SAP’s in-memory database. This deployment builds on our existing […]

The guest blog post below was written by Jaehyun Wie while he was a developer intern on the AWS Elastic Beanstalk Team. It shows you how to run your Docker apps locally using the Elastic Beanstalk Command Line Interface (CLI). — Jeff; The Elastic Beanstalk command line interface (EB CLI) makes it easier for developers, […]

The skills and techniques needed to create, store, process, and manage data sets that start in the hundreds of gigabytes and grow to multiple terabyte size are all too rare. It is time to change that! We have teamed up with the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) to create the new AstroCompute in the Cloud grant […]

Enterprise IT architects and system administrators often ask me how to go about moving their existing compute infrastructure to AWS. Invariably, they have spent a long time creating and polishing their existing system configurations and are hoping to take advantage of this work when they migrate to the cloud. We introduced VM Import quite some […]

The GPU-powered G2 instance family is home to molecular modeling,  rendering, machine learning, game streaming, and transcoding jobs that require massive amounts of parallel processing power. The NVIDIA GRID GPU includes dedicated, hardware-accelerated video encoding; it generates an H.264 video stream that can be displayed on any client device that has a compatible video codec. […]

We have added a new AWS Quick Start Reference Deployment. The new MongoDB on the AWS Cloud document will show you how to design and configure a MongoDB (an open source NoSQL database) cluster that runs on AWS. The MongoDB cluster (version 2.6 or 3.0) makes use of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) and […]

We launched AWS Lambda in preview form at last year’s AWS re:Invent conference (see my post, AWS Lambda – Run Code in the Cloud for more information). As I said at the time, Lambda is a zero-admin compute platform; you don’t have to configure, launch, or, monitor Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances, think […]