AWS News Blog

The CloudFormation Circle of Life : Part 1

Today we have a blog post from Chris Whitaker of the AWS CloudFormation team. Chris brings word of an important new CloudFormation feature, the ability to evolve a running stack by incrementally adding or removing resource definitions from the template. — Jeff; AWS CloudFormation makes it easier for you to create, update, and manage your […]

Reserved Cache Nodes for Amazon ElastiCache

Amazon ElastiCache makes it easy for you to deploy, scale, and run a cloud-based in-memory cache that is protocol-compliant with Memcached. ElastiCache improves the performance of web applications and reduces the load on your databases by retrieving data from a fast, managed, Memcached-compatible, in-memory caching system, instead of relying entirely on disk-based storage. It can […]

Amazon S3 – 905 Billion Objects and 650,000 Requests/Second

At the end of the first quarter of 2012, there were 905 billion objects in Amazon S3. We routinely handle 650,000 requests per second for those objects with occasional peaks substantially above that number. Here is the latest chart: The S3 object count continued to grow at a rapid clip even after we added object […]

The AWS Report – Episode 1 – Rob Frederick of Gripwire

I am pleased as punch (whatever that means) to share the first episode of The AWS Report with you! In the inaugural episode, I interview Rob Frederick, Co-founder and CEO of Seattle-based Gripwire: Future episodes will feature interviews with members of the teams that bring you AWS, as well as more interviews with startups and […]

New Amazon EC2 Fresh Servers

Let’s face it. Sometimes you just need a local server. Perhaps your office is too cold, or you have the urge to pull the cover off and reseat the memory. Or, you might have some data on floppy disks that you simply cannot live without. Because we will leave no stone unturned in our efforts […]