Category: Compute

We’ve brought AWS Elastic Beanstalk to both of the US West regions, bringing the total to five: US East (Northern Virginia) Asia Pacific (Tokyo) EU (Ireland) US West (Oregon) US West (Northern California) I have recently spent some time creating and uploading some PHP applications to Elastic Beanstalk using Git and the new ‘eb’ command. […]

Amazon EC2 instances within a Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) can now have multiple IP addresses. This oft-requested feature builds upon several other parts of AWS including Elastic IP Addresses and Elastic Network Interfaces. Use CasesHere are some of the things that you can do with multiple IP addresses: Host multiple SSL websites on a single […]

I would like to welcome eb (pronounced ee-bee) to the family of Elastic Beanstalk command line tools! Eb simplifies the development and deployment tasks from the terminal on Linux, Mac OS, and Microsoft Windows. Getting started using Elastic Beanstalk from the command line is now as simple as: eb init to set up credentials, choose […]

Our friends at Netflix have embraced AWS whole-heartedly. They have shared much of what they have learned about how they use AWS to build, deploy, and host their applications. You can read the Netflix Tech Blog benefit from what they have learned. Earlier this week they released Asgard, a web-based cloud management and deployment tool, […]

The Cluster Compute Eight Extra Large (cc2.8xl) instance type is now available in our EU West (Ireland) Region. These instances are perfect for your compute and memory intensive HPC jobs. Each instance includes a pair of Intel Xeon processors, 60.5 GB of RAM, and 3.37 TB of instance storage. Each processor has 8 cores and […]

Today’s guest post comes to you courtesy of Spencer Dillard, Product Manager for AWS Elastic Load Balancing. — Jeff; One of the challenges weve heard about many times from customers is the challenge of load balancing between tiers of an application. While Elastic Load Balancing addresses many of the complexities of building a highly available […]

I have three exciting news items for Amazon EC2 users: You can now use Auto Scaling to place bids on the EC2 Spot Market on your behalf. Similarly, you can now place Spot Market bids from within an AWS CloudFormation template. We have a new article to show you how to track Spot instance activity […]

The Amazon Appstore for Android has a really cool Test Drive feature. It allows you to instantly try select applications through your computer browser or Android phone before you elect to install them. There’s some interesting technology behind the Test Drive, and I’d like to tell you a little bit more about it. Let’s start […]