Contemplating the brave new present
Posted in AWS, Coding, O'Reilly Book on Apr 29th, 2008
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 discussed in the book Programming Amazon Web Services (PAWS). To help keep my readers up-to-date with [...]
Posted in AWS on Apr 25th, 2008
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.
Posted in AWS on Apr 24th, 2008
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.
Posted in AWS on Apr 18th, 2008
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 feedback about their services and addresses key weaknesses.
Posted in AWS on Apr 14th, 2008
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 can be attached to your instances on demand. These storage volumes will look like [...]
Posted in AWS on Apr 8th, 2008
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 accessible from other machines within EC2. The outage lasted for up to an hour, according [...]