AWS News Blog
CloudSearch Update – Price Reduction, Hebrew & Japanese Support, Partitioning, CloudTrail
I’ve got some good news for current and potential users of Amazon CloudSearch. As you may already know, CloudSearch is a a fully-managed service that makes it easy to setup, operate, and scale a search service for your website or application. If you use CloudSearch, you will benefit from a price reduction, additional language support, […]
AWS Week in Review – November 10, 2014
Let’s take a quick look at what happened in AWS-land last week. I have augmented selected items with links to their re:Invent presentations. Monday, November 10 We announced CloudTrail Integration With CloudWatch Logs. We updated Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL with Read Replicas, 9.3.5 Support, Migration, and Three New Extensions. We announced a new AWS Direct Connect […]
Larger and Faster Elastic Block Store (EBS) Volumes
As Werner just announced from the stage at AWS re:Invent, we have some great news for users of Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS). We are planning to support EBS volumes that are larger and faster than ever before! Here are the new specs: General Purpose (SSD) – You will be able to create volumes […]
New Compute-Optimized EC2 Instances
Our customers continue to increase the sophistication and intensity of the compute-bound workloads that they run on the Cloud. Applications such as top-end website hosting, online gaming, simulation, risk analysis, and rendering are voracious consumers of CPU cycles and can almost always benefit from the parallelism offered by today’s multicore processors. The New C4 Instance […]
New Event Notifications for Amazon S3
Many AWS customers have been building applications that use Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) for cost-efficient and highly scalable persistent or temporary object storage. Some of them want to initiate processing on the objects as they arrive; others want to capture information about the objects and log it for tracking or security purposes. These […]
AWS Lambda – Run Code in the Cloud
We want to make it even easier for you to build applications that run in the Cloud. We want you to be able to focus on your code, and to work within a cloud-centric environment where scalability, reliability, and runtime efficiency are all high enough to be simply taken for granted! Today we are launching […]
Amazon EC2 Container Service (ECS) – Container Management for the AWS Cloud
Earlier this year I wrote about container computing and enumerated some of the benefits that you get when you use it as the basis for a distributed application platform: consistency & fidelity, development efficiency, and operational efficiency. Because containers are lighter in weight and have less memory and computational overhead than virtual machines, they make […]
Coming Soon – AWS Service Catalog
Running an IT department in a large organization is not easy. On the one hand, you want to provide your internal users with access to the latest and greatest technology so that they can be as efficient and as productive as possible. On the other hand, you, as the IT professional, need to set and […]