AWS News Blog
New Location for Route 53 and CloudFront + Route 53 Tool Roundup + Jobs
We’ve just opened a new Amazon CloudFront and Amazon Route 53 location. The new location in Paris is our fifth in Europe and should result in even better performance and response time for users in that part of the world. You don’t have to make any changes to your application or your configuration to take […]
Rack and the Beanstalk
AWS Elastic Beanstalk manages your web application via Java, Tomcat and the Amazon cloud infrastructure. This means that in addition to Java, Elastic Beanstalk can host applications developed with languages compatible with the Java VM. This includes tools such as Clojure, Scala and JRuby – in this post we start to think out of the […]
Open Positions on the AWS Marketing Team
We have just opened up some new positions on the AWS Marketing Team: Product Marketing Manager (Seattle, Job 133399) – Support the ongoing marketing needs of product teams, ie. managing launches, reviewing launch content, driving product-specific campaigns, and managing Customer Advisory Board. Marketing Communications Manager (Seattle, Job 133423) – Manage content development/approval/publication process, author website […]
Amazon RDS: MySQL 5.5 Now Available
The Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) now supports version 5.5 of MySQL. This new version of MySQL includes InnoDB 1.1, and offers a number of performance improvements including enhanced use of multiple cores, better I/O handling with multiple read and write threads, and enhanced monitoring. InnoDB 1.1 includes a number of improvements over the prior […]
Coming Soon – Oracle Database 11g on Amazon Relational Database Service
As part of our continued effort to make AWS even more powerful and flexible, we are planning to support Oracle Database 11g Release 2 via the Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) beginning in the second quarter of 2011. Amazon RDS makes it easy for you to create, manage, and scale a relational database without having […]
Binpress Programming Contest
Amazon Web Services has teamed up with Binpress, a marketplace where developers buy and sell source code from one another, to sponsor a developer contest for the most useful source-code packages. The line-up for prizes is enticing a mix of cash and other awards with a total value of $40,000. AWS is offering $3,500 in […]
AWS Events for February 2011
We’ve got a lot of interesting live events and webinars planned for February of 2011. First, the live events: Feb 1 – Silicon Valley Cloud Computing Group – What’s new with AWS – Mountain View, CA. Feb 1 – AWS 101 Cloud Computing Seminar: Making the Case for Cloud – Sydney, Australia. Feb 1 – […]
Amazon S3 – Bigger and Busier Than Ever
The number of objects stored in Amazon S3 continues to grow: Here are the stats, measured at the end of the fourth quarter of each year: 2006 – 2.9 billion objects 2007 – 14 billion objects 2008 – 40 billion objects 2009 – 102 billion objects 2010 – 262 billion objects The peak request rate […]