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Amazon CloudWatch monitors your AWS cloud resources and the applications that you run on AWS. The basic unit of monitoring is a metric. Amazon EC2, Amazon RDS, and other AWS services collect metrics and forward them to CloudWatch, where they are stored for two weeks. The metrics can be graphed, and they can also be […]

The Amazon Elastic MapReduce (EMR) team has been hard at work on a series of updates and new features. You now have access to Hadoop 2.2 and new versions of Hive,Pig, HBase, and Mahout.  Cluster startup time has been reduced, S3DistCp (for data movement), has been augmented, and MapR M7 is now supported. If you […]

In the latest episode of The AWS Report, I spoke with Chris Langway of Optaros to learn how they use AWS to meet the demanding and time-critical needs of B2B, B2C, and mobile e-commerce while dealing with multiple brands and channels. Co-host Lee Zen chatted with Product Manager Pavan Pothukuchi to learn more about how […]

Let’s take a quick look at what happened in AWS-land last week: Monday, October 21 The AWS .Net Development Blog talked aobut Using Elastic IP Addresses. The new AWS Application Management Blog talked about Elastic Beanstalk and the DynamoDB Session Manager for Tomcat. We announced that the AWS Console for iOS / Android Now Supports […]

In the latest episode of The AWS Report, I spoke with my colleague Michael Fuller to get an update on the AWS Marketplace. We talked about the value proposition for ISVs, the on-boarding process, and the business model. Co-host Lee Zen chatted with EC2 Product Manager Luis Wang to get his take on the Marketplace […]

Let’s take a quick look at what happened in AWS-land last week: Monday, October 14 We introduced Federated Users and Temporary Security Credentials for AWS CloudFormation. Tuesday, October 15 We added Content Uploading Support to Amazon CloudFront. Wednesday, October 16 The AWS .Net Developer Blog talked about Drag and Drop in the AWS Toolkit for […]

As a regular reader of this blog you probably know a thing or two about Amazon CloudFront and have a decent understanding of the basic value proposition: it is a scalable, easy to use web service for content delivery, with a pay-as-you-go pricing model and the ability to accelerate the delivery of static and dynamic […]

Let’s take a quick look at what happened in AWS-land last week: Monday, October 7 We introduced the Alfresco Test Drive Labs with complimentary access to five apps for education and demo purposes. We introduced a bunch of new Japanese-language case studies including Consumer First, DIP. Intage, Misawa, Roland, Smaregi, UEC Tokyo, Tokyu Hands, and […]