AWS News Blog
Category: Compute
New – EC2 Spot Instance Termination Notices
When potential users of AWS ask me about ways that it differs from their existing on-premises systems, I like to tell them about EC2 Spot Instances and the EC2 Spot Market. When they learn that they can submit bids for spare EC2 instances at the price of their choice, their eyes widen and they start […]
AWS GovCloud (US) Update – Glacier, VM Import, CloudTrail, and More
I am pleased to be able to announce a set of updates and additions to AWS GovCloud (US). We are making a number of new services available including Amazon Glacier, AWS CloudTrail, and VM Import. We are also enhancing the AWS Management Console with support for Auto Scaling and the Service Limits Report. As you […]
Rapid Auto Scaling with Amazon SQS
Earlier this month an AWS user named Andy emailed the following question to me: We’re interested in using the number of items in our sqs queue as criteria for autoscaling our ec2 workers. The 5 minute delay is really way too long for this application, it would have to keep track of the queue in […]
AWS Console Mobile App Update – Support for Elastic Beanstalk
We have updated the AWS Console mobile app with support for AWS Elastic Beanstalk. I’ll let the app’s update notice tell you what’s new: Let’s take a quick look at the new features! The main screen of the app includes a new Beanstalk Applications section: I can see all of my Elastic Beanstalk applications: From […]
Resource Groups and Tagging for AWS
For many years, AWS customers have used tags to organize their EC2 resources (instances, images, load balancers, security groups, and so forth), RDS resources (DB instances, option groups, and more), VPC resources (gateways, option sets, network ACLS, subnets, and the like) Route 53 health checks, and S3 buckets. Tags are used to label, collect, and […]
EC2 Container Service In Action
We announced the Amazon Amazon EC2 Container Service at AWS re:Invent and invited you to join the preview. Since that time, we’ve seen a lot of interest and a correspondingly high signup rate for the preview. With the year winding down, I thought it would be fun to spend a morning putting the service through […]
AWS OpsWorks Update – Support for Existing EC2 Instances and On-Premises Servers
My colleague Chris Barclay sent a guest post to introduce two powerful new features for AWS OpsWorks. — Jeff; New Modes for OpsWorks I have some good news for users that operate compute resources outside of AWS: you can now use AWS OpsWorks to deploy and operate applications on any server with an Internet connection […]
AWS Data Transfer Price Reduction
I am happy to announce that we are reducing the rates for several types of AWS data transfers, effective December 1, 2014, as follows: Outbound Data Transfer – Pricing for data transfer from AWS to the Internet is now 6% to 43% lower, depending on the Region and the amount of data transferred per month. […]