AWS EC2 Price Reduction and Update
To ring in the New Year, AWS is happy to announce that prices have been reduced for EC2 instances. This is the 51st price reduction since AWS began. AWS has lowered the On-Demand, Reserved and...
View ArticleEC2 Update — VM Import Options
EC2 has two specialized tools to help customers import their own virtual machines in to AWS VM Import/Export and AWS Management Portal for vCenter. With these services, customers don’t have to worry...
View ArticleAmazon RDS Enhanced Monitoring
Aiming to build a relational database? Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) is a great tool that makes it very simple to set up, run, scale, and maintain one. Since AWS takes care of the details of...
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7 Reasons That Can Convince your CFO to Invest in the Cloud
Care of flickr.com – Adam Grabek Say that you’re sure that, yes, cloud computing is the best way for your company to go. Yet you still have to convince the C-level management about your...
View ArticleAWS Managed Network Address Translation Gateway
The AWS Virtual Private Cloud lets you isolate a portion of the AWS Cloud for your own private use. Inside the VPC you can define your own IP address range, subnets, route tables, and many other...
View ArticleEC2 Update – Protect Instances from Termination
Autoscaling is a means to scale a group of AWS EC2 instances up and down according to your specifications—extremely useful and cost-effective when the demand for these processes is dynamic. As such,...
View ArticleAWS EC2 Update – Run Command for Linux
The EC2 Run Command was designed for a number of actions, including software installation, ad hoc scripts or MS PowerShell commands, and editing Windows Update settings. As promised by AWS, the same...
View ArticleCloudTrail Updates—Multi-trails and All Regions
AWS CloudTrail lets you monitor activity across all APIs in your account, making it easy for you to determine which API user made a call and what call was used. AWS has made CloudTrail even more useful...
View ArticleAWS Complete & Customizable Cost-Usage Reports
To help understand one’s usage and corresponding costs, AWS has launched a brand new set of reports to provide a comprehensive view of one’s usage and pricing of products. You may generate a...
View ArticleAmazon Aurora Update: Encryption at Rest
Amazon Aurora, AWS’s MySQL-compatible relational database engine, is as simple and cost-effective to use as any open-source database, yet still matches the speed and power of any commercial one. As...
View ArticleAWS EMR Supports Clusters in Private Subnets
AWS has improved its big data processing service Elastic MapReduce (EMR) by giving it the ability to support launching clusters in Amazon VPC private subnets. For EMR 4.2.0 and higher lets users to...
View ArticleCloudFront raises Security with New Headers and Protocols
AWS CloudFront makes it simple to deliver both static and dynamic content to your customers. Your audience gets fast and low-latency access to your videos, websites, music, and so on. One feature of...
View ArticleAWS Games: Lumberyard+GameLift+Twitch
Ready to get your game on? AWS has launched new products to help you develop cloud-based games for different platforms. By combining a professional game development engine, an existing AWS service, and...
View ArticleCloudFront Updates – HTTPS, TLS v1.1/v1.2, Add/Modify Headers
Amazon CloudFront makes it simple to deliver both static and dynamic content to your audience. This service specializes in providing users with fast and low-latency access to your videos, websites,...
View ArticleGZip Support Available for AWS CloudFront
AWS CloudFront is Amazon’s content delivery service that provides high speed data transfers with low latency and no minimum usage commitments. Now, AWS has made CloudFront even faster to use by adding...
View ArticleTrack Changes and Trigger Actions with CloudWatch Events
AWS allows its clients to build tools that monitor and manage the states of their individual AWS environments. These tools work by calling functions that poll AWS resources, such as EC2 instances, EBS...
View ArticleView CloudWatch Metrics Using Amazon SQS Console
Need an easy way to view your Amazon CloudWatch metrics? You can now use your Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS) console to see them directly. Amazon CloudWatch picks up metrics from all AWS services...
View ArticleAWS Sydney Meetup – March 2nd 2016
Please join us for our monthly meetup sessions where we discuss what’s new and happening in the AWS space. Our speakers this month are: Steven Ringo Presenting: Going Serverless: The Best Ops is NoOps....
View ArticleAmazon RDS Enhanced Monitoring and New Instance Types
Amazon Relational Database Service keeps getting better and better as more features come into play. Firstly, the recently-launched Enhanced Monitoring feature provides an in-depth real-time look at the...
View ArticleAccess VPC Resources with Lambda Functions
As previously announced in October 2015, AWS Lambda functions are now able to access resources within a Virtual Private Cloud. This means that your functions can now access and draw data from your...
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