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You can launch an EC2 Spot fleet with a couple of clicks. Once launched, the fleet allows you to draw resources from multiple pools of capacity, giving you access to cost-effective compute power regardless of the fleet size (from one instance to many thousands). For more information about this important EC2 feature, read my posts: […]

September 8, 2021: Amazon Elasticsearch Service has been renamed to Amazon OpenSearch Service. See details. Let’s take a quick look at what happened in AWS-land last week: Monday March 14 We announced that the Developer Preview of AWS SDK for C++ is Now Available. We celebrated Ten Years in the AWS Cloud. We launched Amazon […]

It is still a bit of a shock to me to realize that Amazon S3 is now ten years old! The intervening decade has simply flown by. For several years, you have been able to use S3’s Lifecycle Management feature to control the storage class and the lifetime of your objects. As you may know, […]

Amazon Aurora is a fully-managed, MySQL-compatible, relational database engine that combines the speed and availability of high-end commercial databases with the simplicity and cost-effectiveness of open source database (read my post, Amazon Aurora – New Cost-Effective MySQL-Compatible Database Engine for Amazon RDS, to learn more). Aurora allows you create up to 15 read replicas to […]

Do you currently store relational data in an on-premises Oracle, SQL Server, MySQL, MariaDB, or PostgreSQL database? Would you like to move it to the AWS cloud with virtually no downtime so that you can take advantage of the scale, operational efficiency, and the multitude of data storage options that are available to you? If […]

The AWS Partner Network (APN) helps our partners to build successful businesses around AWS. Members of APN provide consulting services (APN Consulting Partners) or software solutions (APN Technology Partners) that are integrated with the AWS platform. I am happy to be able announce that AWS Advanced Technology Partner Splunk (read their APN entry) has named […]

Rob Leidle, Development Manager for Amazon EMR, wrote the guest post below to introduce you to the latest and greatest version! — Jeff; Today we are announcing Amazon EMR release 4.4.0, which adds support for Apache Sqoop (1.4.6) and Apache HCatalog 1.0.0, an upgraded release of Apache Mahout (0.11.1), and upgraded sandbox releases for Presto […]

Let’s take a quick look at what happened in AWS-land last week: Monday March 7 We launched Notifications for AWS CodeCommit. We announced that New AWS Accounts Now Default to Long EC2 Resource IDs. The AWS Security Blog showed you How to Automate Restricting Access to a VPC by Using AWS IAM and AWS CloudFormation. […]