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In our continuing quest to ensure that Amazon EC2 is applicable to an incredibly broad array of use cases, we are launching a new instance family today. The High Storage Eight Extra Large (hs1.8xlarge) instances are a great fit for applications that require high storage depth and high sequential I/O performance. Each instance includes 117 […]

In the latest episode of The AWS Report, I spoke with Jeff Lawson of Twilio to learn more about what they do and how they use AWS: As Jeff noted, Twilio has a presence in six AWS Regions and their service is available in 40 countries. He told me that none of their developers or […]

AWS Elastic Beanstalk can now provision and configure AWS resources to power your application. In conjunction with a new version of our PHP runtime, you get more control and more flexibility with less code. In October, we announced the Elastic Beanstalk configuration files and talked about how they can help you configure EC2 instances without […]

To make it even easier for you to build AWS applications that span regions, we’re introducing a new EBS Snapshot Copy feature today. You can now copy EBS snapshots between EC2 Regions. Why Copy? So, why would you want to copy an EBS Snapshot from one AWS Region to another? Here are some of the […]

Let’s take a quick look at what happened in AWS-land last week: Monday, December 10 We announced the results of the first EC2 Spotathon. Congratulations to the winners! Wednesday, December 12 We added a number of new customer case studies: BioSense 2.0 from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, MPS Technologies (creation and […]

At AWS we place a high value on the “Voice of the Customer.” We do our best to listen and to learn, and to make sure that our plans line up with what we are hearing. We’ve had a number of requests for better access to more detailed billing data. We took the first step […]

Let’s take a quick look at what happened in AWS-land last week: Monday, December 3 We announced that Amazon DynamoDB is now avaiable in the AWS GovCloud (US). Tuesday, December 4 We announced that there are now Windows products in the AWS Marketplace. We introduced the AWS SDK for Node.js. Wednesday, December 5 We introduced […]

Last week at the AWS re:Invent conference, we announced the results of the first-ever Amazon EC2 Spotathon. Stephen Elliott, Senior Product Manager on the Amazon EC2 team, provided us with a very informative guest post with a full recap of the proceedings. — Jeff; We set up the Spotathon to publicly recognize some of the […]