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Update (November 2011): The information in this post is no longer relevant. Read our post Extending Microsoft Licensing Mobility to the AWS Cloud: Now You Can Run Several Windows Server Applications on AWS for an update. When we talk about AWS with potential users, they often ask if Windows Server is available. As you know, […]

Kimbro and Sean at JumpBox have been breaking a lot of new ground as they strive to make it even easier to run a wide variety of open source applications in a service-oriented fashion. I spent some time talking to Sean yesterday and he walked me through their latest step into the self-service, push-button world […]

I am very happy to announce the new AWS SDK for Java. Java Developers can use this SDK to build powerful AWS applications. We have also updated our AWS Toolkit for Eclipse and together with the SDK, developers can easily use the powerful Eclipse IDE to build new AWS-powered Java applications. The SDK includes: An […]

Amazon S3‘s new Versioning feature has now graduated to production status! Once you have enabled versioning for a particular S3 bucket, you can create a new version of an object by simply uploading it. The old versions continue to exist and remain accessible. Versioning’s MFA Delete feature has also graduated to production status. Once enabled […]

There are all sorts of interesting events coming up this spring. Here’s a sampling; check out the AWS Events page and our newsletters for a more complete list: Learn how to manage Grid Processing for Financial Institutions (March 17, 8:00 AM PST) Register for this webinar to learn how to effectively manage large grid processing […]

We’ve made two improvements to AWS Import/Export. You can now send us a “raw” or internal SATA drive all by itself, with no need for an enclosure. You don’t have to send connectors, cables, or power cords. Raw SATA drives appear to be the most cost-effective way to send large amounts of data from place […]

Late last week I met Jim Kaskade of SIOS at a Seattle-area Starbucks for a meeting and a product demo. With the very cool (and appropriate) title “Chief of Cloud”, Jim was the right person to demonstrate his company’s new cloud-powered high availability and disaster recovery solution. Jim’s Mac laptop was running Centos. He used […]

We’ve added two new features to Amazon SimpleDB to make it even easier for you to implement several different data storage and retrieval scenarios. The first new feature allows you to do a consistent read. Up until now, SimpleDB implemented eventually consistent reads. You now have the option to choose the type of read which […]

It seems to me that every time we release a new service or feature, our customers come up with ideas and requests for at least two more! As they begin to “think cloud” and to get their minds around all that they can do with AWS, their imaginations start to run wild and they aren’t […]

We’ve added a new EC2 instance type to our repertoire. It is called the High Memory Extra Large (m2.xlarge) and has the following specs: 17.1 GB of RAM. 420 GB of local storage. 64-bit platform. 6.5 ECU (EC2 Compute Units), 2 virtual cores each with 3.25 ECU. You can leverage this new instance type as […]