Updated: 2011-08-31 03:31:50
We've added some additional flexibility to Amazon EC2's Elastic Load Balancing feature: You can now terminate SSL sessions at the load balancer and then re-encrypt them before they are sent to the back-end EC2 instances. You can now configure the...
Updated: 2011-08-26 15:16:22
Over the summer months, we'd like to share a few stories from startups around the world: what are they working on and how they are using the cloud to get things done. Today, we're profiling Appscend, from Bucharest, Romania!
Updated: 2011-08-26 07:04:00
: asymptotic tight bound I like to solve application problems using the Web statelessness , hypermedia , self-descriptive representations , and uniform interfaces to produce an asymptotically tight bound solution Thursday , August 25, 2011 Managing source code repositories There are few areas in software engineering that get programmers and managers as actively engaged as the source code management processes . Naturally , it has evolved rapidly over the last decade or so as we went from RCS and Visual Source Safe to Git Mercurial and SVN . As these tools have come and gone , so also have good and bad practices . In an effort to keep up with current practices , I came across this article on using Git for source code management What I like about this article is its simplicity and the ease
Updated: 2011-08-25 23:20:37
I woke up today and realized that today is the 5th anniversary of launch of Amazon EC2. I published the initial announcement in the summer of 2006 while on vacation with my family. We (the AWS Marketing Team) have put...
Updated: 2011-08-25 04:58:08
We've extended EC2's VM Import feature to handle additional image formats and operating systems. The first release of VM Import handled Windows 2008 images in the VMware ESX VMDK format. You can now import Windows 2003 and Windows 2008 images...
Updated: 2011-08-23 04:55:41
Today we are introducing Amazon ElastiCache so that you can easily add caching logic to your application. You can now create Cache Clusters, each comprised of one or more Cache Nodes, in a matter of minutes. Each Cache Cluster is...
Updated: 2011-08-19 03:49:13
If you have read about the Amazon EC2 Spot Instances but are not quite sure how to get started, how to make cost-effective bids, or how to build applications that can manage interruptions, I've got a treat for you. We've...
Updated: 2011-08-19 03:46:04
We've combined two popular Amazon EC2 features — Spot Instances and Elastic MapReduce —to allow you to launch managed Hadoop clusters using unused EC2 capacity. You will be able to run long-running jobs, cost-driven workloads, data-critical workloads, and application testing...
Updated: 2011-08-18 02:43:21
Every since we announced the availability of the first set of Oracle applications on Amazon EC2, we've been working to add additional instance types, locations, and applications. We've made some really good progress; you can now run a wide variety...
Updated: 2011-08-16 20:52:09
A New Region Our new AWS GovCloud (US) Region was designed to meet the unique regulatory requirements of the United States Government. The US federal government, state and local governments, and the contractors who support their mission now have access...
Updated: 2011-08-16 00:48:48
We have added a number of handy and useful features to the popular AWS Toolkit for Eclipse. The toolkit includes the AWS SDK for Java; you can use it to develop AWS applications for deployment directly on Amazon EC2 or...
