AWS News Blog

Over the past two months, we have had the opportunity to share several exciting developments regarding Spot Instances. We have told you how to Run Amazon Elastic MapReduce on EC2 Spot Instances, we published Four New Amazon EC2 Spot Instance Videos, and we outlined the excitement around Scientific Computing with EC2 Spot Instances. Others in […]

Are you thinking about kicking off a lean startup and wondering what the buzz is all about? In his new book, The Lean Startup, author and entrepreneur Eric Ries (co-founder of IMVU) outlines key principles of the ideal lean startup: Customer-centric, rapid iterations on the product. Application of agile software development methodologies. Use of platforms […]

The AWS Management Console now supports the Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS). You can create, inspect, and modify queues. You can post new messages to queues and you can peek at the messages in the queues. Here is a tour: You can see all of your message queues for the current region, along with the […]

You can now create custom IAM (Identity and Access Management) policy documents from the IAM tab of the AWS Management Console. You can use a custom policy document to gain access to a number of advanced IAM features such as limiting access by user agent, time, or IP address, requiring a secure transport, or even […]

A lot of technical tasks that seem simple in theory are often very complex to implement. For example, let’s say that you want to encrypt all of the data that you store in Amazon S3. You need to choose an encryption algorithm, create and store keys (while keeping the keys themselves safe from prying eyes), […]

Our customers continue to make very heavy use of Amazon S3. We now process up to 370,000 S3 requests per second. Many of these are PUT requests, representing new data that is flowing in to S3. As of the end of the third quarter of 2011, there are 566 billion (566,000,000,000) objects in S3. Here’s […]

We’ve created three new documents to make it even easier for you to get started with AWS: The first two documents (Getting Started Guide: AWS Web Application Hosting for Linux and Getting Started Guide: AWS Web Application Hosting for Microsoft Windows) are designed to help you create scalable, robust web applications that handle sophisticated demands […]

This is what we have on our calendars for October: Webinars: October 4 – Demystifyng the Cloud – 11:00 AM October 5 – Provide details of CloudFront & Route 53 – 5:00 PM October 11 – Setting up your first server in the Cloud – 11:00 AM October 17 – Architecting for the Cloud – […]