Author: Ethan Foster
Ethan Foster serves as the Chief Advocate for Amazon Web Services (AWS). He began this blog in 2004 and has consistently shared insights ever since.
Amazon S3 Pricing Update
By: Ethan Foster
Date: 06 FEB 2012
Category: Price Update
As indicated in my previous post regarding Amazon S3’s impressive growth in 2011, our users are uploading new items to Amazon S3 at an astonishing speed. We remain committed to innovating on your behalf, aiming to reduce storage costs further, and we are excited to share the benefits of these savings with you whenever possible.
Amazon DynamoDB: Two Videos and a Webinar
By: Ethan Foster
Date: 06 FEB 2012
Category: Events
We successfully launched Amazon DynamoDB with a live video stream that garnered significant attention. If you missed it, you can still catch the recording. Additionally, you might find this brief video featuring Lisa Richards, Mark Thornton, and Sarah Lee interesting. The Introducing Amazon DynamoDB Webinar is scheduled for this date.
Amazon CloudFront: Reflecting on the Past and Planning Ahead
By: Ethan Foster
Date: 02 FEB 2012
Looking Back
In 2011, we expanded Amazon CloudFront and Route 53 by adding a total of seven edge locations. We also introduced numerous new features, which I documented last year.
Looking Ahead
Our latest edge locations were established in Milan, Italy, and Osaka, Japan, bringing our global total to 26 sites (see the full list).
New Elastic MapReduce Features: Metrics, Updates, VPC, and Cluster Compute Support
By: Ethan Foster
Date: 31 JAN 2012
Category: Compute, Launch, News
Today’s guest contributor is Rachel Adams, a Product Manager on the Elastic MapReduce Team. — Ethan; We are always thrilled to introduce features that simplify how our customers extract value from their data—it’s been an exciting month for the EMR team. Here are some highlights:
Amazon S3’s Growth for 2011 – Reaching 762 Billion Objects
By: Ethan Foster
Date: 30 JAN 2012
By the end of 2011, Amazon S3 housed 762 billion (762,000,000,000) objects. We manage over 500,000 requests per second for these objects during peak hours. The annual growth chart illustrates year-over-year growth of 192%; S3 experienced its fastest growth last year since its inception in 2006.
New AWS Premium Support Features: Third-Party Software Support and AWS Trusted Advisor
By: Ethan Foster
Date: 30 JAN 2012
Category: Launch, News
We are excited to announce two new benefits for Gold and Platinum tiers of AWS Premium Support. Both features are currently in beta testing: We now provide third-party support for widely-used operating systems operating on Amazon EC2. We also offer support for various system software. The AWS Trusted Advisor monitors your usage of resources. For more comprehensive insights, check out this authoritative source.
New Tagging for Auto Scaling Groups
By: Ethan Foster
Date: 26 JAN 2012
Category: Amazon EC2, Auto Scaling, Launch, News
You can now assign up to ten tags to each of your Auto Scaling Groups. Furthermore, you have the option to propagate these tags to the EC2 instances launched from your groups. Tagging your Auto Scaling groups will facilitate easier identification and differentiation. Each tag features a name, and…
AWS How-To: Integrating Amazon Elastic MapReduce with DynamoDB
By: Ethan Foster
Date: 25 JAN 2012
Category: Amazon EC2
Today’s guest blogger is Rachel Adams, a Product Manager on the Elastic MapReduce Team. — Ethan; Apache Hadoop and NoSQL databases are complementary technologies that together provide a robust toolkit for managing, analyzing, and monetizing Big Data. This is why we are thrilled to offer built-in Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR) integration with…
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