• CloudFormation + Amazon VPC + XenApp = Secure Cost-effective Application Delivery Within Minutes

    Updated: 2011-05-28 01:00:49
    Today, I spoke at the Citrix Synergy 2011 Conference in San Francisco where they announced Citrix's Support for XenApp - On-demand Application Delivery Solution - on Amazon Web Services Cloud. I am particularly excited about this announcement because now you...

  • Moving Ahead With Amazon Route 53

    Updated: 2011-05-25 02:54:25
    As you may know from my previous post, Amazon Route 53 is a highly available and highly scalable DNS service. Today we have some big news for users and fans of Route 53: You can use a new alias feature...

  • Elastic Load Balancing - IPv6, Zone Apex Support, Additional Security

    Updated: 2011-05-25 02:53:55
    We've added three new features to EC2's Elastic Load Balancing feature: IPv6 Support - All Elastic Load Balancers in the US East (Northern Virginia) and EU (Ireland) regions now have publicly routable IPv6 addresses in addition to their existing IPv4...

  • Now Available Amazon RDS for Oracle Database

    Updated: 2011-05-24 12:35:24
    A few months ago I told you that we were planning to support Oracle Database 11g (Release 2) via the Relational Database Service (RDS). That support is now ready to go, and you can start launching Database Instances today. We've...

  • Updated AWS Security White Paper; New Risk and Compliance White Paper

    Updated: 2011-05-18 17:56:23
    We have updated the AWS Security White Paper and we've created a new Risk and Compliance White Paper. Both are available now. The AWS Security White Paper describes our physical and operational security principles and practices. It includes a description...

  • New - Custom Metrics for Amazon CloudWatch

    Updated: 2011-05-11 01:39:00
    You can now store your business and application metrics in Amazon CloudWatch. You can view graphs, set alarms, and initiate automated actions based on these metrics, just as you can for the metrics that CloudWatch already stores for your AWS...

  • How to Use the New CloudWatch User-Defined Metrics Feature With PHP

    Updated: 2011-05-11 01:37:44
    I thought it would be fun to show the new CloudWatch User-Defined metrics in action so I spent a couple of hours cooking up a little example. I launched an EC2 Micro instance, installed PHP, Emacs, the MySQL development package,...

  • AWS Mobile SDKs Now Support Additional Services

    Updated: 2011-05-09 18:19:47
    The AWS SDK for Android and the AWS SDK for iOS now support even more AWS services: Amazon EC2 Amazon CloudWatch Amazon Simple Email Service Elastic Load Balancing Auto Scaling The SDKs already support Amazon S3, Amazon SimpleDB, Amazon Simple...

  • AWS Elastic Beanstalk Now Supports Tomcat 7

    Updated: 2011-05-05 23:46:32
    We've added a second container type to AWS Elastic Beanstalk. Version 7 of Apache Tomcat is now available for use and is the default for all new environments (you can still choose version 6 if you'd like). Tomcat 7 includes...

  • Identity and Access Management in the AWS Management Console

    Updated: 2011-05-04 02:09:00
    The AWS Management Console now includes support for Identity and Access Management (IAM). You can create and manage users, groups, and policies with a couple of mouse clicks. Read on to learn more about this new feature, or read my...

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