AWS News Blog
Category: Compute
Available Now: Beta release of AWS Diagnostics for Microsoft Windows Server
Over the past few years, we have seen tremendous adoption of Microsoft Windows Server in AWS. Customers such as the Department of Treasury, the United States Tennis Association, and Lionsgate Film and Entertainment are building and running interesting Windows Server solutions on AWS. To further our efforts to make AWS the best place to run […]
CloudWatch Monitoring Scripts Updated
We have added three new features to the CloudWatch Monitoring Scripts for Linux. These scripts can be run in the background to periodically report system metrics to Amazon CloudWatch, where they will be stored for two weeks When you install the scripts you can choose to report any desired combination of the following metrics: Memory […]
AWS Marketplace – Support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
The AWS Marketplace now supports software running on Red Hat Enterprise Linux, commonly known as RHEL. If you use RHEL on AWS, you can now find, buy, and then one-click deploy an ever-growing set of applications from top-tier software vendors. The AWS MarketplaceAs you may know, the AWS Marketplace makes it easy for you to […]
EC2’s M3 Instances Go Global; Reduced EC2 Charges and Lower Bandwidth Prices
We continue to work to make AWS more powerful and less expensive, and to pass the savings on to you. To that end, I have three important announcements: EC2’s M3 instance family is now available in all AWS Regions including AWS GovCloud (US). On-Demand prices for EC2 instances in the M1, M2, M3, and C1 […]
EC2 for In-Memory Computing – The High Memory Cluster Eight Extra Large Instance
Our new High Memory Cluster Eight Extra Large (cr1.8xlarge) instance type is designed to host applications that have a voracious need for compute power, memory, and network bandwidth such as in-memory databases, graph databases, and memory intensive HPC. Here are the specs: Two Intel E5-2670 processors running at 2.6 GHz with Intel Turbo Boost and […]
Webinar – Scalable Database Architectures
Ok, there you are, about to build an application that has to store lots and lots of data in cost-effective yet scalable fashion. Should you use a relational model or should you go NoSQL? Should you use DynamoDB, Redshift, RDS, ElastiCache, or more than one? We’ve set up webinar for later this week to help […]
Amazon CloudWatch – Alarm Actions
As you probably know, Amazon CloudWatch provides monitoring services for your cloud resources and your applications. You can track cloud, system, and application metrics, see them visually, and arrange to be notified (via a CloudWatch alarm) if they go beyond a value that you specify. For example, you can track the CPU load of your […]
AWS Management Console Improvements – Tablet and Mobile Support
Managing your AWS resources has become easier and more direct over the years! Let’s do a quick recap before we dig in: We launched Amazon SQS (2004) and Amazon S3 (2006) as pure APIs, with no tool support whatsoever. Developers were quick to build all sorts of interesting tools around the web service APIs. Later […]