• New from Cirrhus9 and SecuCloud: Integrated DB Security and Compliance on Demand

    Updated: 2010-05-27 18:36:52
    Mike from Cirrhus9 wrote to tell me that they've teamed up with SecuCloud to produce a new database security and compliance solution which just happens to be available as a DevPay AMI for use on Amazon EC2. The solution has...

  • AWS Management Console Now Supports the Relational Database Service

    Updated: 2010-05-25 03:51:32
    The AWS Management Console now supports the Amazon Relational Database Service: You can now create, manage, and scale DB Instances with point and click ease. Let's start by launching an instance using the Launch DB Instance Wizard. Click on the...

  • Webinar: The Need for IT Speed…and Security…and Control

    Updated: 2010-05-20 16:37:29
    On Thursday, May 27th I'll be participating in Cloud Computing for the Enterprise Webinar hosted by NewScale. I'll provide a business and technical introduction to AWS and then NewScale's Jamie MacQuarrie will talk about their policy-based approval and governance system...

  • enStratus Adds Support for Amazon SNS and Amazon RDS

    Updated: 2010-05-19 14:43:00
    My friends over at Minneapolis-based enStratus Networks emailed me yesterday to give me a heads-up on their newest release of their Cloud Management Solution. They have had full support for Amazon EC2 instances, S3 storage, Elastic IP Addresses, CloudWatch, Elastic...

  • New: Amazon S3 Reduced Redundancy Storage (RRS)

    Updated: 2010-05-19 06:16:47
    I've got a cool new Amazon S3 feature to tell you about, but I need to start with a definition! Let's define durability (with respect to an object stored in S3) as the probability that the object will remain intact...

  • Amazon RDS - Multi-AZ Deployments For Enhanced Availability & Reliability

    Updated: 2010-05-18 06:04:21
    Amazon RDS simplifies many of the common tasks associated with the deployment, operation, and scaling of a relational database. You don't have to worry about acquiring and installing hardware, loading an operating system, installing and configuring MySQL, or managing backups....

  • Upcoming Webinar - Amazon Mechanical Turk and Statera

    Updated: 2010-05-18 04:30:38
    Would you like to learn more about the Amazon Mechanical Turk and how you can make use of an on-demand workforce to add a human element to your application? Do you need to identify objects in a photo, remove duplicate...

  • Amazon CloudFront Now Supports Streaming Access Logs

    Updated: 2010-05-14 02:52:12
    You can now enable logging for an Amazon CloudFront Streaming distribution (see my recent post for more information about CloudFront Streaming). Once enabled for a particular distribution, CloudFront logs all accesses to a designated Amazon S3 bucket.The information in the...

  • Upcoming webinar - Application security in the cloud

    Updated: 2010-05-11 22:50:28
    Amazon Web Services is teaming with RightScale and HyperStratus to deliver a webinar on cloud security. In survey after survey, and just about everywhere I travel, potential cloud computing users mention security as their number one concern. This webinar presents...

  • Amazon RDS Now Available on the West Coast

    Updated: 2010-05-07 00:38:45
    The Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) is now available in our US West (Northern California) Region. With this release, Amazon RDS is now available in the US East (Northern Virginia), US West (Northern California), EU (Ireland), and Asia Pacific (Singapore)...

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