You can now manage the listeners, SSL certificates, and SSL ciphers for an existing Elastic Load Balancer from within the AWS Management Console. This enhancement makes it even easier to get started with Elastic Load Balancing and simpler to maintain a...
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IntroductionAmazon CloudFront's network of edge locations (currently 30, with more in the works) gives you the ability to distribute static and streaming content to your users at high speed with low latency.
Today we are introducing a set of featur...
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IntroductionBecause the AWS Cloud operates on a pay-as-you-go model, your monthly bill will reflect your actual usage. In situations where your overall consumption can vary from hour to hour, it is always a good idea to log in to the AWS portal and che...
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We are continuing to simplify the Windows development experience on AWS, and today we are excited to announce Amazon RDS for SQL Server and .NET support for AWS Elastic Beanstalk. Amazon RDS takes care of the tedious aspects of deploying, scaling, pat...
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As you might know, you can use official Windows AMIs (Amazon Machine Images) to launch Amazon EC2 instances with Microsoft SQL Server, inside or outside a VPC (Virtual Private Cloud).
Many customers are taking advantage of this possibility to run diffe...
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Using the new AWS Marketplace, you can easily find, compare, and start using an array of software systems and products. We've streamlined the discovery, deployment, and billing steps to make the entire process of finding and buying software quick, ...
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We have just published the Microsoft SharePoint Server on AWS Reference Architecture White Paper.
This white paper discusses general concepts regarding how to use SharePoint services on AWS and provides detailed technical guidance on how to configure, ...
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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 w...
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We have received tremendous positive feedback from customers and partners since we launched Amazon DynamoDB two months ago. Amazon DynamoDB enables customers to offload the administrative burden of operating and scaling a highly available distributed d...
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We've just released version 2012.03 of the Amazon Linux AMI. Coming six months after our previous major release, this version of the AMI is loaded with new features that EC2 users will enjoy.
One of our goals for this release has been to make avai...
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There's a new coding challenge on CloudSpokes with a top prize of $2000 and other prizes ranging from $1000 to $100.
The goal: Create tools to help more people to make use of Amazon EC2 Spot Instances!
This is an opportunity to be imaginative and c...
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We’ve received great feedback from customers on the recent AWS price reductions. I’ve personally received a number of great stories from customers who are using AWS to reduce the cost of running their business.
We’ve written up two of these recen...
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A few days ago we launched a simple, yet very important new feature on our AWS website: the self-service AWS AMI catalog.As you know, AMIs are disk images that contain a pre-configured operating system and virtual application software, and they serve a...
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We've put together a pair of new Getting Started Guides for Linux and Microsoft Windows. Both guides will show you how to use EC2, Elastic Load Balancing, Auto Scaling, and CloudWatch to host a web application.
The Linux version of the guide (HTML,...
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We’ve gotten great feedback on the EC2 Instance Status checks that we introduced back in January. As I said at the time, we expect to add more of these checks throughout the year. Our goal is to get you the information that you need in order to under...
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Big NewsI have three important announcements for EC2 users:
We have introduced a new instance type, the Medium (m1.medium).
You can now launch 64-bit operating systems on the m1.small and c1.medium instances.
You can now log in to an EC2 instance fro...
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The Amazon CloudWatch team has just released new sample scripts for monitoring memory and disk space usage on your Amazon EC2 instances running Linux.You can run these scripts on your instances and configure them to report memory and disk space usage m...
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We like to distinguish our Cluster Compute instances from the other instance types by providing details about the actual processor (CPU) inside. When we launched the CC2 (Cluster Compute Eight Extra Large) instance type last year we were less specific ...
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AWS works hard to lower our costs so that we can pass those savings back to our customers. We look to reduce hardware costs, improve operational efficiencies, lower power consumption and innovate in many other areas of our business so we can be more ef...
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Esri is a leading provider of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) software and geo-database management applications. Their powerful mapping solutions have been used by Governments, industry, academics, and NGOs for nearly 30 years (read their histor...
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It’s always exciting to find out that an app that has changed how I consume news and blog content on my mobile devices is using AWS to power some of their most engaging features. Such is the case with Pulse, a visual news reading app for iPhone, iPad...
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Earlier today, GigaOM published a cost comparison of self-hosting vs. hosting on AWS. I wanted to bring to your attention a few quick issues that we saw with this analysis:
Lower Costs in Other AWS Regions - The comparison used the AWS costs for the US...
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You can now add up to 10 tags to any of your Auto Scaling Groups. You can also, if you'd like, propagate the tags to the EC2 instances launched from your groups.
Adding tags to your Auto Scaling groups will make it easier for you to identify and distin...
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Today's guest blogger is Adam Gray. Adam is a Product Manager on the Elastic MapReduce Team.
-- Jeff;
Apache Hadoop and NoSQL databases are complementary technologies that together provide a powerful toolbox for managing, analyzing, and monetizing...
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Warning: If you don't have a data center, or if all of your IT infrastructure is already in the cloud, you may not need to read this post! But feel free to pass it along to your friends and colleagues.
The Storage GatewayOur new AWS Storage Gatewa...
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