Category Archives: AWS

Amazon Web Services

Accelerating Cloud Adoption

Posted on April 28, 2010 by

Over the past weeks we’ve been releasing a number of new features in response to numerous requests from our user base to broaden the reach of the RightScale platform.  Just today we launched support for Amazon’s new Singapore region, see … Continue reading →

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Thoughts about the Amazon Simple Notification Service

Posted on April 12, 2010 by

Amazon just released a new service, the Simple Notification Service (SNS), which is a distributed message delivery service roughly similar to AMQP or JMS message services. It uses a publish-subscribe paradigm and supports push delivery of notifications using HTTP and … Continue reading →

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Amazon Consolidated Billing and Reserved Instances

Posted on February 10, 2010 by

Amazon added consolidated billing a couple of days ago. It allows you to consolidate multiple accounts onto a single bill so your credit card only gets one hefty charge instead of many smaller ones from all the accounts you might … Continue reading →

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Bid for Your Instances!

Posted on December 13, 2009 by

We’re clearly witnessing a year-end release finale at AWS with another big release tonight: EC2 Spot instance pricing. Spot instance pricing is the third pricing model introduced by Amazon after the original per-hour price (now called “on-demand”), then the “reserved” … Continue reading →

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Amazon EC2 – A New Chapter Begins

Posted on December 3, 2009 by

Tonight Amazon made a milestone release introducing the ability to boot instances from an EBS volume and stop & start instances. In addition, just a few weeks after announcing their plans to expand AWS to the far east, today they’ve … Continue reading →

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RightScale ServerTemplate Library and Machine Tags

Posted on October 28, 2009 by

Yesterday’s release of the RightScale platform introduced two new features that I’m really excited about: the ServerTemplate Library and the use of Machine Tags on servers. (Ooops, I shouldn’t forget the new features for RackSpace, but I’ll talk about those … Continue reading →

Posted in AWS, Chef, Cloud Computing, EC2, Rackspace, RightLink | Tagged , , , | 1 Comment

Amazon launches Relational Database Service and larger server sizes

Posted on October 26, 2009 by

Today is another big AWS launch day with two important new features available for EC2: a Relational Database Service (RDS) and larger servers. Plus a 15% price reduction on compute cycles: yay! Relational Database Service With the Relational Database Service … Continue reading →

Posted in AWS, Cloud Computing, EC2, MySQL | 14 Comments

Amazon Usage Estimates

Posted on October 5, 2009 by

Two weeks ago Guy Rosen posted a very interesting analysis of the EC2 instance IDs which reveals how many instances (virtual machines) have been launched on EC2 since its beginning in 2006. We’ve also been digging in our records and … Continue reading →

Posted in AWS, Cloud Computing, EC2 | 21 Comments

More RightScale open source goodness

Posted on July 27, 2009 by

We’ve always been strong supporters of open source: we use it a lot and we’ve been contributing many things to the community as well. In particular, since early 2007 we’ve been publishing the recipes to our RightImages and we’ve also … Continue reading →

Posted in AWS, Cloud Computing, EC2, FlexiScale, Rackspace | 1 Comment

Amazon adds Load balancing, Monitoring, and Auto-Scaling (updated)

Posted on May 18, 2009 by

[This post was updated with sections on the monitoring and auto-scaling services] Announced late last year, Amazon tonight launched load balancing, monitoring, and auto-scaling for the Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2). These features have been requested many times by EC2 users … Continue reading →

Posted in AWS, Cloud Computing, EC2 | 20 Comments