Category: News

We have received tremendous positive feedback from customers and partners since we launched Amazon DynamoDB two months ago. Amazon DynamoDB enables customers to offload the administrative burden of operating and scaling a highly available distributed database cluster while only paying for the actual system resources they consume. We also received a ton of great feedback […]

A few days ago we launched a simple, yet very important new feature on our AWS website: the self-service AWS AMI catalog. As you know, AMIs are disk images that contain a pre-configured operating system and virtual application software, and they serve as the required base to launch an EC2 instance. Before this change in […]

We held our first-ever AWS Summit in New York in early 2011 (I snapped the picture at right before the audience filed in for the keynote). Due to the great response we received the first time, we’re doing it again, this time bigger, louder, and with even more content. After registering, you’ll be able to […]

We’ve put together a pair of new Getting Started Guides for Linux and Microsoft Windows. Both guides will show you how to use EC2, Elastic Load Balancing, Auto Scaling, and CloudWatch to host a web application. The Linux version of the guide (HTML, PDF) is built around the popular Drupal content management system. The Windows […]

We are excited to announce that we have added several new AWS Identity Access and Management (IAM) features aimed at providing you more flexibility and control when managing your IAM users. With todays launch you can now: Grant your IAM users access to the Account Activity page and Usage Reports page on the AWS website. […]

Big NewsI have three important announcements for EC2 users: We have introduced a new instance type, the Medium (m1.medium). You can now launch 64-bit operating systems on the m1.small and c1.medium instances. You can now log in to an EC2 instance from the AWS Management Console using an integrated SSH client. New Instance TypeThe new […]

Update (January 6, 2016) – The scripts described in this blog post have been deprecated and are no longer available. For updated information on how to perform the same tasks in a more modern fashion, please take a look at Sending Performance Counters to CloudWatch and Logs to CloudWatch Logs, Configuring a Windows Instance Using […]

Today’s guest blogger is Adam Gray. Adam is a Product Manager on the Elastic MapReduce Team. — Jeff; Were always excited when we can bring features to our customers that make it easier for them to derive value from their dataso its been a fun month for the EMR team. Here is a sampling of […]