• Amazon EC2 Price Reduction

    Updated: 2010-09-02 05:49:24
    We're always looking for ways to make AWS an even better value for our customers. If you've been reading this blog for an extended period of time you know that we reduce prices on our services from time to time....

  • FindTheBest - AWS in Action

    Updated: 2010-09-01 00:54:42
    Mike from Cirrhus9 sent me some information about their recent implementation of FindTheBest. With his permission, I am sharing some of the details with you so that you can get a better idea of how a sophisticated developer brings together...

  • New CloudFront Feature: Invalidation

    Updated: 2010-09-01 00:23:24
    Under normal conditions, an Amazon S3 object in a bucket that is part of a CloudFront distribution can be cached at a CloudFront edge location per the object's TTL (Time to Live). In many situations it is possible to come...

  • Appian Anywhere: Authority to Operate

    Updated: 2010-08-29 15:34:00
    After a rigorous and comprehensive assessment, Appian has received an Authority to Operate (ATO) from the U.S .Department of Education for the Department's Appian Anywhere BPM (Business Process Management) application, which is built on AWS. Appian Anywhere provides IT request...

  • Happy 4th Birthday Amazon EC2

    Updated: 2010-08-26 18:31:45
    I almost missed a really important anniversary! Yesterday marked Amazon EC2's fourth birthday. Here are some of the ways that EC2 has grown and changed in the last four years: Category 2006 2010 Regions One Four Availability Zones One Ten...

  • Updated: AWS Security Whitepaper

    Updated: 2010-08-24 17:12:50
    Good news for all those interested in security...we've released the fourth version of our Overview of Security Processes whitepaper. It contains ten pages of new and additional detailed information. Highlights of new content include: A description of the AWS control...

  • AWS SDK for Java Updated

    Updated: 2010-08-23 16:52:26
    We just released version 1.0.8 of theAWS SDK for Java. In addition to some bug fixes, the SDK includes the following new features: Support for the new Reserved DB Instances. Improved constructors for the Amazon RDS model classes. A new...

  • AWS Start-Up Challenge Goes Global for 2010

    Updated: 2010-08-18 15:59:50
    We're ready to start accepting entries for the AWS Start-Up Challenge 2010! Each year we run the challenge to help young, promising start-ups get noticed and to compete for $100,000 (USD) in cash and credits (full prize list). We've made...

  • By Popular Demand: Amazon RDS Reserved DB Instances

    Updated: 2010-08-17 03:59:00
    I can't even leave my neighborhood without getting feature requests! My neighbor Rick was walking his dog past my house and stopped to ask me when we were going to support Reserved Instances for Amazon RDS. Such is life in...

  • Amazon RDS: MySQL Upgrade and DB Engine Version Management

    Updated: 2010-08-17 03:56:00
    I've got a pair of related news items for users of the Amazon Relational Database System (RDS): We now support version 5.1.49 of MySQL, with the InnoDB Plugin as the InnoDB storage engine. We now provide a new, optional level...

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