AWS News Blog

I am happy to announce that the Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) is now available to all current and future Amazon EC2 customers. VPC users are charged only for VPN connection hours and for data transfer, making this a very cost-efficient way to create a secure and seamless bridge between a company’s existing IT infrastructure […]

We have a whole new way for you to request access to Amazon EC2 processing power! Using our new Spot Instances, you can bid for one or more EC2 instances at the price you are willing to pay. Your Spot Instance request consists of a number of parameters including the maximum bid that you are […]

You can now run Microsoft Windows Server 2008, SQL Server 2008 Express, and SQL Server Standard 2008 on Amazon EC2. There has been a lot of demand for this particular feature and I’m happy to be able to make this announcement! You can launch these instances in all three AWS Regions (US East, US West, […]

AWS Import/Export is a fast and reliable alternative to sending large volumes of data across the internet. You can send us a blank storage device and we’ll copy the contents of one or more Amazon S3 buckets to it before shipping it back to you. Or, you can send us a storage device full of […]

For the past several years, many people have claimed that cloud computing can reduce a company’s costs, improve cash flow, reduce risks, and maximize revenue opportunities. Until now, prospective customers have had to do a lot of leg work to compare the costs of a flexible solution based on cloud computing to a more traditional […]

I’d like to say a few words about our pricing strategy, and then share some price reductions with you. Here are the most important tenets of our pricing strategy: We are always working to drive our costs (and thus, our prices) down for the benefit of our customers. The scale of AWS provides us with […]

Many Web 2.0 applications include a substantial amount of dynamic content. The pages of these applications generally cannot be generated once and then saved for reuse, and must be built from scratch in response to each request. In order to make a Web 2.0 application run with an acceptable degree of efficiency, it is often […]

A new AWS Region is online and available for use! Our new Northern California (US-West) Region supports Amazon EC2, Amazon S3, SimpleDB, SQS, Elastic MapReduce, Amazon CloudWatch, Auto Scaling, and Elastic Load Balancing. The AWS documentation contains the new endpoints for each service. The existing Amazon S3 US Standard Region provides good, cost-effective performance for […]