AWS News Blog

One of the key advantages that customers and partners are telling us they really appreciate about AWS is its unique ability to cut down the time required to evaluate new software stacks.  These “solution appliances” can now be easily deployed on AWS and evaluated by customers in hours or days, rather than in weeks or […]

You can now create Amazon RDS database instances running Oracle Database on Micro instances. This new, option will allow you to build, test, and run your low-traffic database-backed applications at a cost starting at $30 per month ($0.04 per hour) using the License Included option. If you have a more intensive application, the micro instance […]

For today’s episode of The AWS Report, I spoke to Billy Cox, Director of Cloud Strategy for Intel. We discussed the genesis of cloud computing, some historical trends, and ways that Intel is optimizing their processors for cloud-style workloads. I really enjoyed speaking with Billy and I think you’ll be able to see this in […]

The Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) now supports SQL Server 2012.You can now launch the Express, Web, and Standard Editions of this powerful database from the comfort of the AWS Management Console. SQL Server 2008 R2 is still available, as are multiple versions and editions of MySQL and Oracle Database. If you are from the […]

I spent some time in Silicon Valley last week and late one afternoon I spoke to a group of Engineering VPs drawn from area companies. Although many of them were already AWS customers, it turned out that not everyone knew about the Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) so I spent some time showing them […]

NASDAQ OMX‘s new FinQloud is a cloud solution designed to serve the needs of the regulated financial services industry. By building FinQloud on top of AWS, NASDAQ was able to create a protected environment for regulated data that meets very stringent security, reliability, and durability requirements. Financial services firms operate in a very complex global […]

Let’s take a quick look at what happened in AWS-land last week: Monday, September 17 We added four new checks to the AWS Trusted Advisor including EC2 Reserved Instance Optimization, VPN Tunnel Redundancy, RDS Backup, and RDS Multi-AZ. Tuesday, September 18 We introduced Auto Scaling termination policies to give you additonal control over the scale-down process. Friday, September 21 Developer Andy […]

UPDATE (May 5, 2018) The capacity management capabilities of Amazon DynamoDB were enhanced after this blog post was published. As a result, the post references information that may no longer be the most accurate or a best practice. Pease read the DynamoDB documentation on Best Practices for Designing and Using Partition Keys Effectively to learn […]