Category: Compute

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 […]

Continuing with our theme of publishing white papers to show you how to run popular relational and NoSQL databases on AWS, I am pleased to tell you that our new Riak on AWS white paper is now available. Authored by AWS Solutions Architect Brian Holcomb (a one-time member of the Obama for America campaign), this […]

You have a plethora of options when you want to run a relational or NoSQL databases on AWS. On the relational side, you can use the Relational Database Service (RDS) to run a MySQL, Oracle, or SQL Server database. RDS will take care of the scaling, backup, maintenance, patching, and failover for you so that […]

The EBS Snapshot Copy feature gives you the power to copy EBS snapshots across AWS Regions. Effective today, we have made the snapshot copy even faster than before with support for incremental copies between Regions. It is now practical to copy snapshots to other regions more frequently, making it easier for you to develop applications […]

I’m happy to announce that the following EC2 instance types are now available in the Asia Pacific (Tokyo) Region and that you can start using them today: Cluster Compute Eight Extra Large (cc2.8xlarge) – With 60.5 GiB of RAM, a pair of Intel Xeon E5-2670 processors, and 3.3 TB of instance storage, the very high […]

I’m happy to announce that Route 53 DNS Failover now supports Elastic Load Balancing (ELB) endpoints. Route 53 launched DNS Failover on February 11, 2013. With DNS Failover, Route 53 can detect an outage of your website and redirect your end users to alternate or backup locations that you specify. Route 53 DNS Failover relies […]

Chris Barclay of the AWS OpsWorks team has put together a really nice guest post to introduce you to three new AWS OpsWorks features. — Jeff; We are pleased to announce three new AWS OpsWorks features that make it even easier to manage your applications: Elastic Load Balancing support, a monitoring view of your stacks […]

Over the past six or seven years I have had the opportunity to see customers of all sizes use Amazon EC2 to power their applications, including high traffic web sites, Genome analysis platforms, and SAP applications. I have learned that the developers of the most successful applications and services use a rigorous performance testing and […]