Category: News

Amir of Diversion, Inc. wrote to tell me about his company’s newest release, an AWS-powered Facebook game called FameTown. FameTown lets you play the role of a movie star in a digital version of Hollywood. You can start on the D-List (a total unknown) and attempt to progress to the A-List, earning points by completing […]

We added SSL support to the Elastic Load Balancer a couple of weeks ago. This met the needs of many of our users, but not all of them. Some of our users wanted to be able to tell if the HTTP requests arriving at their EC2 servers had been transmitted across the Internet using HTTPS. […]

A critical aspect of the value proposition for the Amazon Web Services revolves around choice. This takes many forms, each of which gives you the freedom to choose the best fit for your particular situation: A wide variety of services that you can choose to use, or not, as determined by your needs. Ten EC2 […]

We’ve added some new workforce management tools to Amazon Mechanical Turk. If you are are a current or potential Mechanical Turk Requester, these features are for you. These features were designed to make it easier for you to find and reward the Workers who are doing good work on your HITs (Human Intelligence Tasks). The […]

We’ve added an oft-requested feature to AWS. You can now download printable, PDF-format invoices from the AWS Portal. Invoices are available for the month that has just passed (I can access my August invoice now) and for all prior months. You can find the invoices in the Account Activity section of the AWS Portal. Scroll […]

We’ve got a really nice new AWS SDK for PHP. Like our existing .NET and Java toolkits, this one was designed to be a high-quality SDK with comprehensive feature coverage, documentation, and tutorials. The first release supports a large subset of our infrastructure services including the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), the Amazon Simple Storage […]

We’ve just introduced four cool new features for Amazon EC2. Instead of trying to squeeze all of the information in to one ridiculously long post, I’ve written four separate posts. Here’s what we introduced: Resource Tagging -Tag the following types of resources: EC2 instances, Amazon Machine Images (AMIs), EBS volumes, EBS snapshots, and Amazon VPC […]

Many of our customers create large numbers of EC2 resources. Some of them run hundreds or thousands of EC2 instances, create thousands of EBS volumes, and retain tens of thousands of EBS volume snapshots. This growth has meant that the corresponding Describe APIs (DescribeInstances, DescribeVolumes, and DescribeSnapshots, to name a few) can return results that […]

It is really easy to start up that first Amazon EC2 instance, and then another, and another as you find more and more ways to put it to use. It is really easy to create some EBS volumes, attach them to your instances, and to store lots and lots of data on them. The same […]

The Amazon EC2 API includes functions which create resources such as instances, disk volumes and snapshots, IP addresses, and key pairs. Some of these functions create the resources in a synchronous fashion and you can determine the success or failure of the request by examining the value returned by the call. Other functions work in […]