Category: Amazon Web Services (AWS)
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AWS tools for Windows PowerShell
One of the most popular posts on my blog is my comparison of Windows PowerShell with Unix utilities. Readers may be interested to learn that AWS now has PowerShell tools.
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Amazon announce data warehouse back end solution
Today Amazon announced Redshift a data warehouse service based on PostgreSQL: Amazon Redshift Amazon Redshift is a fast and powerful, fully managed, petabyte-scale data warehouse service in the cloud. Redshift offers you fast query performance when analyzing virtually any size data set using the same SQL-based tools and business intelligence applications you use today. With…
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Amazon web services support Python
Python is the new kid on the block. A relatively easy to use interpreted language. AWS have recognised this. Here is the press release (some what late). Dear AWS Customer, We are excited to announce that AWS Elastic Beanstalk now supports Python applications. Elastic Beanstalk is an easy and fast way to deploy and manage…
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Amazon Web Services provides a facility to sell unused capacity
One of the potential risks of buying reserved instances on the Amazon cloud is that you might buy more than you need. This has been a consideration for me for hosting the Keyapt app. Now Amazon lets you sell excess capacity to other users. Amazon EC2 Reserved Instance Marketplace The Reserved Instance Marketplace gives you the…
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Amazon Web Services internal load balancing
This is a very nice feature from Amazon that allows the adoption of a more scalable and secure infrastructure. Dear Amazon Web Services Customer, We are excited to announce that you can now create a load balancer in your Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (“VPC”) for internal load balancing. With this new feature, you can balance…
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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 customers to offload the administrative burdens of operating and scaling a search service. Customers don’t…
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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 learn more about how organizations are using Amazon Web Services (AWS) to implement their disaster…
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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 reliable, ultra-scalable key/value database. This non-relational, or NoSQL, database was targeted at use cases that…
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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 hourly rate. Keyapt SMS have a server that runs continuously. Therefore we should look a…
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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 instance(s) that will be rebooted and your scheduled reboot time(s) are listed below… If you…
Dr James Bayley 