Category Archives: Amazon Web Services

Windows Azure IaaS Takes Aim At Amazon Web Services Via Price, Functionality And Service

This was the week where Microsoft announced the general availability of Windows Azure Infrastructure as a Service. More than a simple declaration of production-grade availability, Microsoft’s announcement about its IaaS platform delivered the strongest possible elaboration of its intent to … Continue reading

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Can Google’s Compute Engine Dethrone Amazon Web Services?

In June 2012, Google introduced its IaaS offering, Google Compute Engine (GCE). GCE allows users to deploy Linux Virtual Machines on the same infrastructure that powers Google’s world-class data centers and IT infrastructure. GCE complements Google’s related cloud offerings such … Continue reading

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Amazon Web Services Enhances CloudWatch Monitoring Tool To Automatically Terminate Instances

Amazon Web Services recently announced an enhancement to its CloudWatch monitoring application. Thus far, CloudWatch empowered users to track metrics such as CPU usage and instance requests in both numeric and visual formats. Additionally, CloudWatch provided notifications if a certain … Continue reading

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Understanding the December 2012 Windows Azure Outage

From December 28 to December 30, Microsoft’s Windows Azure platform experienced an outage for its South Central US Region that arrived head upon heels after the Amazon Web Services Christmas eve outage that became famous for incapacitating Netflix. The outage … Continue reading

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Amazon Web Services Enhances Elastic Beanstalk & EBS IOPS

This week, Amazon Web Services announced two significant enhancements to its PaaS platform Elastic Beanstalk in the form of support for Ruby and Virtual Private Clouds. Elastic Beanstalk now supports application development in Ruby in addition to Java, PHP, Python … Continue reading

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Amazon Web Services Renders Python Available On Elastic Beanstalk

Amazon Web Services recently announced the availability of Python on Elastic Beanstalk, its Platform as a Service (PaaS) product. Elastic Beanstalk will now support Python applications that operate on the Apache HTTP Server and the WSGI interface. Developers can now … Continue reading

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Amazon Web Services June 2012 Outage Explained

Amazon Web Services recently released an explanation of the outage that affected a single Availability Zone in the US East Region (Northern Virginia) on June 14. The outage affected customers such as Quora, Heroku and Hipchat. The chronology below represents … Continue reading

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Amazon Web Services Enhances CloudFront With Dynamic Personalized Content

Amazon Web Services has enhanced its CloudFront content delivery web service to deliver dynamic personalized content for visitors to websites. Jeff Barr’s AWS blog post cut to the chase with an explanation of the technical stakes of dynamic personalized. After … Continue reading

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