Tag Archives: AWS

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 →

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Amazon takes EC2 to the next level with persistent storage volumes

Posted on April 13, 2008 by

The Amazon folks have gone public today with the next EC2 feature: persistent storage. The official information is found in Jeff Barr’s blog entry and in Matt’s forum post. Calling the persistent storage a “feature” is actually quite an understatement, … Continue reading →

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RightAws release 1.7.0, including ActiveSDB alpha

Posted on April 1, 2008 by

We released a new version of our Ruby library gem for accessing AWS Services, including EC2, S3, SQS, and SDB: RightAws 1.7.0 is now available off rubyforge.  This version includes enhancements of the EC2 interface to support Elastic IP addresses, … Continue reading →

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Setting up a fault-tolerant site using Amazon’s Availability Zones

Posted on March 26, 2008 by

Amazon’s Availability Zones are a fabulous new feature that allows users to assign instances to locations that are very fault-tolerant from one another yet that have very high bandwidth between each other. I wish I could have done something like … Continue reading →

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Amazon’s communication is improving

Posted on March 24, 2008 by

One of the most often heard complaints about Amazon Web Services is the lack of communication about service status and issues. The community has been pretty vocal about this and they’ve certainly heard it and are committed to improving. So … Continue reading →

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