Category: Compute

For many scientists, the computer has become as important as the test tube, the centrifuge or the grad student in delivering ground breaking research. Whether screening for active cancer treatments or colliding atoms, the availability of compute cycles can significantly affect the time it takes for scientists to crunch their numbers. Indeed, compute resources are […]

Saad Ladki of the Elastic Beanstalk team is back with another guest post. Today, Saad talks about a customization feature that will allow you to customize the run-time configuration of your applications by installing packages and libraries, running commands, and editing files. — Jeff; A few weeks ago, we announced Python support for AWS Elastic […]

The Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) gives you the power to create a private, isolated section of the AWS Cloud. You have full control of network addressing. Each of your VPCs can include subnets (with access control lists), route tables, and gateways to your existing network and to the Internet. You can connect your VPC […]

As you can tell from some of my recent posts, we’re adding new features to the Virtual Private Cloud and to the Relational Database Service at a very rapid clip. Today’s release involves both of these services! You can now use launch RDS database instances running Microsoft SQL Server inside of a Virtual Private Cloud […]

We announced an AWS Region in Tokyo about 18 months ago. In the time since the launch, our customers have launched all sorts of interesting applications and businesses there. Here are a few examples: Cookpad.com is the top recipe site in Japan. They are hosted entirely on AWS, and handle more than 15 million users […]

The Amazon RDS team is rolling out new features at a very rapid clip. Here’s the latest and greatest: Oracle Data Pump Customers have asked us to make it easier to import their existing databases into Amazon RDS. We are making it easy for you to move data on and off of the DB Instances […]

EC2 OptionsI often tell people that cloud computing is equal parts technology and business model. Amazon EC2 is a good example of this; you have three options to choose from: You can use On-Demand Instances, where you pay for compute capacity by the hour, with no upfront fees or long-term commitments. On-Demand instances are recommended […]

AWS Elastic Beanstalk is now available in the Asia Pacific (Singapore) region. You can now use Elastic Beanstalk to deploy, manage, and scale Java, .NET, PHP, and Python applications in the following AWS regions: US East (Northern Virginia) US West (Northern California) US West (Oregon) Asia Pacific (Tokyo) Asia Pacific (Singapore) EU (Ireland) After you […]