Category: Compute

Last week one of my colleagues stopped me in the hall and said “Jeff, you have to tell our customers about all of the great work that we are doing with SAP.” I asked him for some details and he was happy to oblige. SAP Business All-in-One is an important piece of enterprise software, a […]

The AWS VM Import service gives you the ability to import virtual machines in a variety of formats into Amazon EC2, allowing you to easily migrate from your on-premises virtualization infrastructure to the AWS Cloud. Today we are adding the next element to this service. You now have the ability to export previously imported EC2 […]

In today’s episode I interview Dave Ward of the EC2 Spot Instance team: Dave describes the Spot Instance concept in detail; I hope it will inspire you to think of ways to use them in your own AWS applications. Stay tuned for future editions of The AWS Report! — Jeff;

You can now manage the listeners, SSL certificates, and SSL ciphers for an existing Elastic Load Balancer from within the AWS Management Console. This enhancement makes it even easier to get started with Elastic Load Balancing and simpler to maintain a highly available application using Elastic Load Balancing. While this functionality has been available via […]

Today we are expanding the availability of AWS Elastic Beanstalk to the EU (Ireland) region. This comes hot on the heels of our recent announcement of .NET support and our launch in Japan, and gives you the ability to choose any one of three regions for deployment (see the AWS Global Infrastructure map for more […]

Post updated on May 11, 2020. Introduction Amazon CloudFront‘s network of edge locations (currently 30, with more in the works) gives you the ability to distribute static and streaming content to your users at high speed with low latency. Today we are introducing a set of features that, taken together, allow you to use CloudFront […]

IntroductionBecause the AWS Cloud operates on a pay-as-you-go model, your monthly bill will reflect your actual usage. In situations where your overall consumption can vary from hour to hour, it is always a good idea to log in to the AWS portal and check your account activity on a regular basis. We want to make […]

We are continuing to simplify the Windows development experience on AWS, and today we are excited to announce Amazon RDS for SQL Server and .NET support for AWS Elastic Beanstalk. Amazon RDS takes care of the tedious aspects of deploying, scaling, patching, and backing up of a relational database, freeing you from time-consuming database administration […]