Tag: Amazon Web Services
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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 period. This is very cool. Chron jobs are always problematic, it is much better to…
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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…
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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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Amazon Content Delivery Network
In an earlier post I refered to Damon Hart-Davis’ investigation of cloud services because it followed the same path as my own with similar conclusions. He has now published a fourth part on Amazon Content Delivery Network (CDN). A CDN caches static resources closer to the user. This gives your user a faster browsing experience…
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Amazon IAM does not support Elastic Beanstalk
Amazon Identity and Authorisation Management is now out of beta and has both a GUI and a command line unfortunately it still does not work with Elastic Beanstalk. It gets worse. You single username and password provides complete access to all Amazon properties including shopping and associates. So unless you want to share this with…
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Elastic Beanstalk review
I have been doing a small scale trial of Amazon’s Elastic Beanstalk. I have previously trialled Rackspace cloud. I am impressed Amazon’s with the ease of use and configuratibility. Amazon’s is very much the techies’ solution. Although Amazon Web Services console is very easy to use and a great way to get started you can…
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Joy reigns with AWS CloudFormation
Amazon’s relentless drive to make infrastructure management easier continues with their announcement of AWS CloudFormation. The big problem that ordinary people (well developers and techies anyway) have with cloudy stuff is that although it is easy to start-up one server, choreographing the creation of an entire system, for example a load-balanced, three-tier system remains difficult.…
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AWS Elastic Beanstalk – free Tomcat clustering in the cloud
This came today. It is quite interesting. Scalable cloud management on Amazon. It is “free” which contrasts with other offerings. My guess is that even the most basic of cloud management offering from Amazon will do 90% of what a small app developer needs. AWS Elastic Beanstalk (beta) Easy to begin, Impossible to outgrow AWS…
Dr James Bayley 