• Amazon S3 Growth for 2011 - Now 762 Billion Objects

    Updated: 2012-01-31 03:15:44
    As of the end of 2011, there are 762 billion (762,000,000,000) objects in Amazon S3. We process over 500,000 requests per second for these objects at peak times. Here's the annual growth chart: This represents year-over-year growth of 192%; S3...

  • New AWS Premium Support Features: Third-Party Software Support and AWS Trusted Advisor

    Updated: 2012-01-30 17:01:10
    We have added two new benefits to the Gold and Platinum levels of AWS Premium Support. The following features are now in beta testing: We now offer third-party support for popular operating systems running on Amazon EC2. We also support...

  • New Tagging for Auto Scaling Groups

    Updated: 2012-01-27 03:29:48
    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...

  • AWS HowTo: Using Amazon Elastic MapReduce with DynamoDB (Guest Post)

    Updated: 2012-01-26 01:42:55
    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 Big Data. That’s...

  • The AWS Storage Gateway - Integrate Your Existing On-Premises Applications with AWS Cloud Storage

    Updated: 2012-01-25 08:56:12
    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....

  • Launch Relational Database Service Instances in the Virtual Private Cloud

    Updated: 2012-01-25 01:34:38
    You can now launch Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) DB instances inside of a Virtual Private Cloud (VPC). Some Background The Relational Database Service takes care of all of the messiness associated with running a relational database. You don't have...

  • AWS Toolkits for Eclipse and Visual Studio Now Support DynamoDB

    Updated: 2012-01-20 08:12:33
    The AWS Toolkit for Eclipse and and the AWS Toolkit for Visual Studio now support Amazon DynamoDB.You can create tables, insert and edit data, initiate table scans, and more. Here are some screen shots from the AWS Toolkit for Visual...

  • Identity Federation to the AWS Management Console

    Updated: 2012-01-20 03:47:43
    In August, we announced that AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) added support for Identity Federation. This enabled customers to use their existing identities (e.g. users) to securely access AWS APIs and resources using IAM's fine-grained access controls, without the...

  • Guest Post: Geo-Blocking Content With Amazon CloudFront

    Updated: 2012-01-20 01:15:48
    Today's guest blogger is Nihar Bihani, a Product Manager on the Amazon CloudFront team. -- Jeff; After we launched Amazon CloudFront in November 2008, customers began asking for a way to block access to their content being delivered. We heard...

  • Amazon DynamoDB - Internet-Scale Data Storage the NoSQL Way

    Updated: 2012-01-18 17:32:23
    We want to make it very easy for you to be able to store any amount of semistructured data and to be able to read, write, and modify it quickly, efficiently, and with predictable performance. We don't want you to...

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