Category: Cloud
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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…
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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 announced that Elastic Beanstalk users will be able to use the Identity and Access Management…
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Amazon add Route 53 support to console
I have previously blogged about Amazon Route 53 and how you needed to use third party tools. Well from today Amazon Route 53 can be managed from the Amazon console. This is good.
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Amazon Web Services support SMS notifications
This addition to the notification service is good. Your first 100 SMS messages per month are free. The notification service is good for implementing work flows and this SMS functionality if good for alerts. http://aws.amazon.com/sns/
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R53 Fox is great for managing Amazon Route53
Amazon Route 53 is a great way to manage the DNS entries of your cloud services. A key feature is its ability to map your domain apex such as “keyapt.com” to an elastic load balancer instance. To actually create the mapping you use the Elastic Load Balancer CLI (command line interface). The command elb-associate-route53-hosted-zone and…
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Keyapt – how to get an AJAX application in the Google index.
Our Android application Keyapt SMS is coming along nicely. Chris is tweaking the session management and I am doing the marketing plan. Keyapt SMS has three parts: the Android Application, the Web Client and the Keyapt Server in the middle that connects the PC to the mobile. The Web Client is a rich interface application…
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Amazon Web Services Blog: Updated Mobile SDKs for AWS – Improved Credential Management
Amazon have now given more information on this feature in this blog post. Updated Mobile SDKs for AWS – Improved Credential Management via Amazon Web Services Blog: Updated Mobile SDKs for AWS – Improved Credential Management.
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AWS SDK for Android – A Library for Building Android Applications on Amazon S3, Amazon SimpleDB, and more.
I am a big fan of Amazon Web Services. We use it for the serverside components of our Android application Keyapt. Today I came across this useful SDK that helps you use AWS services from within Android applications. AWS SDK for Android The AWS SDK for Android provides a library, code samples, and documentation for…
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Microsoft online services hit by major failure
Perhaps it should be called Office 364 rather than Office 365? http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-14851455
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CloudBase Meetup – relational databases don’t scale
Last night I attended the CloudBase Meetup at Hackney Community College that was arranged by Shawn of Tech Meetups (well done Shawn). It was a good venue if rather hard to find and escape from. The speakers were: Steve Caughey, Arjuna Francoise Dechery, CloudBees Alvin Richards, MongoDB Richard Davis, ElasticHosts Kjetil Olsen, Elance Steve Caughey…
Dr James Bayley 