Category Archives: Cloud

Amazon CloudSearch for your company’s data

The remorseless march of Amazon  continues… Announcing Amazon CloudSearchWe are pleased to announce the launch of Amazon CloudSearch, a fully-managed search service in the cloud that makes it easy to set up, manage, and scale search applications. Amazon CloudSearch enables … Continue reading

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Amazon Elastic Beanstalk now support PHP and Git deployment

Could be fun for custom WordPress deployments or suchlike. Dear Amazon Web Services Customer, We are excited to announce that AWS Elastic Beanstalk now supports a PHP runtime and Git deployment. Elastic Beanstalk already makes it easier to quickly deploy … Continue reading

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AWS disaster recovery in the cloud

An interesting event from AWS Are you interested in implementing disaster recovery in the cloud for your websites or applications, including enterprise applications from Oracle, SAP and Microsoft? Attend this webinar on 28 March 2012, 14:00 GMT / 15:00 CET and … Continue reading

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Why Windows 8 server is a game-changer • The Register

An interesting article on Windows 8 Server. Why Windows 8 server is a game-changer More than just a few tweaks… via Why Windows 8 server is a game-changer • The Register. Windows Server has always been the choice of businesses … Continue reading

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Amazon DynamoDB – a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database Service Designed for Internet Scale Applications – All Things Distributed

I am interested in Amazon’s new NoSQL database DynamoDB. We develop Android applications and a core requirement is scalable session management. This seems to be a primary use of DynamoDB. Dynamo was born out of our need for a highly … Continue reading

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CloudFront now supports 20 GB downloads

An interesting announcement from Amazon AWS. Now CloudFront can be used to deliver even the largest types training materials and software. The ability to use custom origins will be interesting to users who store their content in their own content … Continue reading

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Amazon S3 object expiration

Over the Christmas period Amazon announced. Today we’re excited to announce Object Expiration, a new feature to help you efficiently manage data stored in Amazon S3. Object Expiration enables you to schedule the removal of objects after a defined time … Continue reading

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EC2 reserved instances for baseload

Amazon recently announced new options for their EC2 reserved instances. http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/reserved-instances/?ref_=pe_8050_22086710 With this product you pay a small amount up-front for a reserved instance and in exchange Amazon will lower your hourly rate. The more you pay the lower the … Continue reading

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EC2 does maintenance reboots

I got an interesting mail from AWS today. One or more of your Amazon EC2 instances have been scheduled for a reboot in order to receive some patch updates. Most reboots complete within minutes, depending on your instance configuration. The … Continue reading

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Amazon AWS add IAM support to Elastic Beanstalk

The announcement from Amazon keep getting better and better. I am very pleased that we selected AWS as the platform for Keyapt. Keyapt SMS uses Elastic Beanstalk but until now the development team had to share a login. Today Amazon … Continue reading

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