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I’m happy to announce that the AWS Free Usage Tier now includes 750 hours of SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) usage on a t1.micro instance. If you are eligible for the free usage tier you now have the option to run SLES as part of your 750 hours of monthly Linux usage. You can use […]

Let’s take a quick look at what happened in AWS-land last week: Monday, September 2 This was a US holiday and nothing of note happened in AWS-land. Tuesday, September 3 We launched the New AWS Command Line Interface. The AWS .NET Developer Blog discussed the EC2Metadata utility. Wednesday, September 4 We announced that Amazon ElastiCache […]

To build on the recent launch of AWS ElastiCache for Redis, Development Manager Enno Brehm sent me a guest post to show you how to set it up for use in AWS Opsworks. — Jeff; With the launch of Amazon ElastiCache for Redis it is now easier than ever to use Redis with your AWS […]

I love to demo Amazon RDS. It is really cool to be able to launch a relational database instance in minutes, and to show my audiences how it manages scaling, backups, restores, patches, and availability so that they can focus on their application. After my demo, I invariably get questions about data migration. The audiences […]

Have you ever thought about building an application that is location-based? Perhaps you want to display maps, or you want to show the bus stops or restaurants that are closest to the user as they roam about an unfamiliar city. What’s Here?Like many types of programming and data representation problems, it turns out that efficiently […]

Chris Barclay sent me a nice guest post to announce that AWS OpsWorks is now available in the Virtual Private Cloud. — Jeff; I am pleased to announce support for using AWS OpsWorks with Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC). AWS OpsWorks is a DevOps solution that makes it easy to deploy, customize and manage […]

If you are a regular reader of this blog, you know that I am a huge fan of the Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS). Over the course of the last couple of years, I have seen that my audiences really appreciate the way that RDS obviates a number of tedious yet mission-critical tasks that are […]

We launched Amazon ElastiCache about two years ago, and have steadily added features ever since. In the last two years we have added auto discovery, additional cache node types, and reserved cache nodes. We’ve reduced prices several times and we have added support for additional AWS Regions and VPC. Today we are taking a big […]