Monthly Archives: April 2008

Programming Amazon EC2 Version 2008-02-01

Amazon has released an updated version of the Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) API with the version name 2008-02-01 . This release includes a number of new features that were not available in the 2007-08-29 version of the API that I … Continue reading

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ElasticFox EC2 Firefox extension has been updated

The excellent ElasticFox EC2 Firefox extension has been updated to support the latest EC2 features, including ElasticIPs and Availability Zones. This is my favourite tool for managing EC2 instances, so check it out if you haven’t already.

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Reduced pricing for outgoing data transfers from AWS

Amazon will soon be reducing the fees they charge for outgoing data transfers from all AWS services. Effective from May 1 2008, the new pricing tiers include reductions at every level. See the announcement for the new pricing.

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AWS maturing: Service Health Dashboard and Premium Support

Amazon has released two new support mechanisms for Amazon Web Services (AWS) that will be very welcome to developers and businesses that rely on these services. These announcements demonstrate that the AWS environment is maturing rapidly as Amazon responds to … Continue reading

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Persistent Storage in EC2 later this year

Amazon is working on a significant new feature for the EC2 service: persistent storage. According to this pre-announcement post in the developer forums, EC2 users will be able to create storage volumes that exist separately from individual instances, but which … Continue reading

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EC2 Networking Outage

Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) service suffered a networking outage yesterday that caused instances to become inaccessible from outside Amazon’s network. This meant that connections from the Internet failed to reach some instances, though these instances continued running and were … Continue reading

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