Category: Compute

I’m pleased to be able to tell you that AWS Elastic Beanstalk now supports PHP and Git deployment. Elastic Beanstalk and PHPAWS Elastic Beanstalk makes it easy for you to quickly deploy and manage applications in the AWS cloud. You simply upload your application, and Elastic Beanstalk automatically handles all of the details associated with […]

We’ve put together a pair of new Getting Started Guides for Linux and Microsoft Windows. Both guides will show you how to use EC2, Elastic Load Balancing, Auto Scaling, and CloudWatch to host a web application. The Linux version of the guide (HTML, PDF) is built around the popular Drupal content management system. The Windows […]

Weve gotten great feedback on the EC2 Instance Status checks that we introduced back in January. As I said at the time, we expect to add more of these checks throughout the year. Our goal is to get you the information that you need in order to understand when your EC2 resources are impaired. Status […]

Big NewsI have three important announcements for EC2 users: We have introduced a new instance type, the Medium (m1.medium). You can now launch 64-bit operating systems on the m1.small and c1.medium instances. You can now log in to an EC2 instance from the AWS Management Console using an integrated SSH client. New Instance TypeThe new […]

Update (January 6, 2016) – The scripts described in this blog post have been deprecated and are no longer available. For updated information on how to perform the same tasks in a more modern fashion, please take a look at Sending Performance Counters to CloudWatch and Logs to CloudWatch Logs, Configuring a Windows Instance Using […]

Today’s guest post comes to you from Saad Ladki, Product Manager for AWS Elastic Beanstalk. — Jeff; We are excited to announce that AWS Elastic Beanstalk now supports resource permissions through AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM). AWS Elastic Beanstalk provides a quick way to deploy and manage applications in the AWS cloud. IAM enables […]

We like to distinguish our Cluster Compute instances from the other instance types by providing details about the actual processor (CPU) inside. When we launched the CC2 (Cluster Compute Eight Extra Large) instance type last year we were less specific than usual, stating only that each instance contained a pair of 8-core Xeon processors, each […]

AWS works hard to lower our costs so that we can pass those savings back to our customers. We look to reduce hardware costs, improve operational efficiencies, lower power consumption and innovate in many other areas of our business so we can be more efficient. The history of AWS bears this out — in the […]