Category: Launch

The AWS Test Drives give you direct and easy access to a wide variety of enterprise solution stacks, all hosted on the AWS Cloud. These labs are available to you to run for a half-day evaluation period at no charge. Each test drive includes a guided video tour and a lab manual, so you will […]

We have added a very large collection of new features to Amazon Redshift. You now have more options and more ways to organize and query your petabyte-scale data warehouse. Here’s a summary: Distributed Tables – You now have more control over the distribution of a table’s rows across compute nodes. Remote Loading – You can […]

As you may know, Amazon RDS makes it easy for our customers to set up, scale, and operate a relational database in the cloud. Amazon RDS supports MySQL, Oracle (Standard Edition One, Standard Edition and Enterprise Edition) and Microsoft SQL Server (Web, Express, Standard, and Enterprise editions). RDS handles the time-consuming database administration tasks so […]

Do you want to build fast, 3D applications that run in the cloud and deliver high performance 3D graphics to mobile devices, TV sets, and desktop computers? If so, you are going to love our new G2 instance type! The g2.2xlarge instance has the following specs: NVIDIA GRID (GK104 “Kepler”) GPU (Graphics Processing Unit), 1,536 […]

AWS Direct Connect makes it easy for you to establish a dedicated network connection from your premises to AWS. You can do this to reduce your network costs, improve throughput, or to provide a more consistent network experience than is possible with an Internet-based connection. Today we are making AWS Direct Connect even more powerful […]

We launched the first part of the EC2 Reserved Instance Modification feature last month. At that time we gave you the ability to modify the Availability Zone and the Network Platform (EC2-Classic or VPC) of your EC2 Reserved Instances. Today we are giving you the ability to change the instance type of your Linux/UNIX reservations. […]

AWS CloudFormation lets you create and manage a collection of AWS resources (EC2 instances, Elastic IP addresses, RDS DB Instances, and much more), provisioning and updating them in an orderly and predictable fashion. CloudFormation lets you describe stacks of related resources using a template. The template can include runtime parameters, allowing you to customize each […]

By making good use of Amazon EC2’s Reserved Instances (perhaps guided by the recommendations of the AWS Trusted Advisor or equally capable third-party tools) you can lower your compute costs while also reserving capacity. Today we are making the Reserved Instance model even more flexible by giving you the power to modify your Reserved Instances […]