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Today, I spoke at the Citrix Synergy 2011 Conference in San Francisco where they announced Citrix’s Support for XenApp – On-demand Application Delivery Solution – on Amazon Web Services Cloud. I am particularly excited about this announcement because now you can spin up a Secure XenApp Farm in the cloud within minutes that instantly delivers […]

As you may know from my previous post, Amazon Route 53 is a highly available and highly scalable DNS service. Today we have some big news for users and fans of Route 53: You can use a new alias feature to map the root or apex of your hosted zone to your Elastic Load Balancer. […]

Update (September, 2017) – The IPv6 information in this blog post has grown outdated over time. For current information, take a look at Internet-Facing Classic Load Balancers. We’ve added three new features to EC2’s Elastic Load Balancing feature: IPv6 Support – All Elastic Load Balancers in the US East (Northern Virginia) and EU (Ireland) regions […]

I thought it would be fun to show the new CloudWatch User-Defined metrics in action so I spent a couple of hours cooking up a little example. I launched an EC2 Micro instance, installed PHP, Emacs, the MySQL development package, and the AWS SDK for PHP. The first step is to include the master file […]

The AWS Management Console now includes support for Identity and Access Management (IAM). You can create and manage users, groups, and policies with a couple of mouse clicks. Read on to learn more about this new feature, or read my other post to learn more about IAM. There’s a new IAM tab on the AWS […]

We have updated the AWS Management Console with support for three important CloudFront features: The ability to set a custom origin for a CloudFront distribution (docs). The option to make a distribution accessible solely via HTTPS (docs). The ability to set a default root object (docs). With this update, functionality that was previously available only […]

We have just announced our first set of AWS training classes. Each session will be held in Seattle and will run for four full days. The classes are designed for developers with experience building Java applications and there will be coding exercises in class. Attendance is limited to 20 students per session and attendees are […]

Our customers are doing all sorts of interesting work on AWS. We’ve been working with them to produce a number of AWS Case Studies so as to better spread the word about how cloud computing and AWS are changing the world. Here are the latest case studies:   European Space Agency – The Data User […]