Cancel an AWS Account

AWS allows users to cancel their AWS account.

If you wish to cancel your AWS account follow the below steps:

• Login to your AWS Account as a returning user by selecting the option : "I am a returning user and password is:" , click on Sign in using our secure server button.

Create an AWS Account - Free Usage Tier

Amazon Web Services helps its new customers to get started into the cloud by introducing a free usage tier. This tier is available to customers for 12 months. 

Below are the highlights of AWS’s free usage tiers. All are available for one year (except SWF, DynamoDB, SimpleDB, SQS, and SNS which are free indefinitely):

NOTE:

Below Image is updated as of October 1st,2012 for AWS RDS announcement. For latest updates, please check AWS Free Tier for more details

 

 

Do check AWS Free Tier for more details.

How to get started:

Infographic: Why are more more businesses moving to the cloud?

The cloud is one of the quickest growth areas in the IT sector, more and more businesses are using the cloud for their day to day processes and according to analysts TechMarketView, the UK market for cloud computing reached £1.2bn in 2011, 38 percent higher than the previous year. That’s some serious growth!

But why are businesses moving to the cloud? The reality is the cloud is fast becoming hard to ignore and in the infographic below we take a look at why:

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Amazon RDS News - Oracle Data Pump

The Amazon RDS team is rolling out new features at a very rapid clip.

The most awaited feature - Oracle Data Pump is finally here.

Extract from blog post by Jeff:
Customers have asked us to make it easier to import their existing databases into Amazon RDS. We are making it easy for you to move data on and off of the DB Instances by using Oracle Data Pump. A number of scenarios are supported including:

• Transfer between an on-premises Oracle database and an RDS DB Instance.
• Transfer between an Oracle database running on an EC2 instance and an RDS DB Instance.
• Transfer between two RDS DB Instances.

These transfers can be run in either direction. We currently support the network mode of Data Pump where the job source is an Oracle database. Transfers using Data Pump should be considerably faster than those using the original Import and Export utilities. Oracle Data Pump is available on all new DB Instances running Oracle Database 11.2.0.2.v5. To use Data Pump with your existing v3 and v4 instances, please upgrade to v5 by following the directions in the RDS User Guide. To learn more about importing and exporting data from your Oracle databases, check out our new import/export guide.

For those who are not aware what Oracle Data Pump is -

Oracle Data Pump is a feature of Oracle Database 11g Release 2 that enables very fast bulk data and metadata movement between Oracle databases. Oracle Data Pump provides new high-speed, parallel Export and Import utilities (expdp and impdp) as well as a Web-based Oracle Enterprise Manager interface.

• Data Pump Export and Import utilities are typically much faster than the original Export and Import Utilities. A single thread of Data Pump Export is about twice as fast as original Export, while Data Pump Import is 15-45 times fast than original Import.
• Data Pump jobs can be restarted without loss of data, whether or not the stoppage was voluntary or involuntary.
• Data Pump jobs support fine-grained object selection. Virtually any type of object can be included or excluded in a Data Pump job.
• Data Pump supports the ability to load one instance directly from another (network import) and unload a remote instance (network export).