AWS Week in Review - August 4th to August 12th, 2012



Let's take a quick look at what happened in AWS-land last week:

Monday, August 6	AWS Elastic MapReduce now supports Hadoop 1.0.3 including HDFS over HTTP.
Wednesday, August 8	AWS released some EBS Provisioned IOPS resources including a benchmarking guide.
Thursday, August 9	AWS reduced the minimum throughput for DynamoDB tables.

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AWS Week in Review - July 30th to August 3rd, 2012

 



Let's take a quick look at what happened in AWS-land last week:

Monday, July 30	AWS friends at Netflix published the code for their Chaos Monkey, a member of their Simian Army of testing tools. You can now buy EC2 Reserved Instances for Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Jeff posted the newest episode of The AWS Report with Dave Peck, Co-Founder of Cloak.
Tuesday, July 31	You can now use Creately to build AWS architecture diagrams.
Wednesday, August 1	AWS introduced Provisioned IOPS for EBS volumes.
Friday, August 3	AWS released three new Trusted Adviser checks.

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AWS Week in Review - August 13th to August 19th, 2012

Let's take a quick look at what happened in AWS-land last week:

Monday, August 13	AWS updated AWS Direct Connect with new locations and AWS Management Console support. AWS published another AWS Report, this one featuring Kate Matsudaira, CTO of Decide.com.
Thursday, August 16	AWS added additional features to Amazon RDS for Oracle Database, including support for running in a VPC, support for Oracle XMLDB, and Oracle Application Express (APEX). AWS published a new white paper, the Total Cost of (Non) Ownership of Web Applications in the Cloud.
Sunday, August 19	AWS released Python support for Elastic Beanstalk including seamless integration with Amazon RDS.

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AWS Week in Review - August 20th to August 26th , 2012

 

Let's take a quick look at what happened in AWS-land last week:

Monday, August 20	AWS released Amazon Glacier, archival storage for one penny per Gigabyte per month.
Tuesday, August 21	Amazon DynamoDB now supports storage and retrieval of binary data. AWS released AWS Cost Allocation for customer bills.
Wednesday, August 22	You can now launch EC2 Cluster Compute Instances in the US West (Oregon) region.
Thursday, August 23	Amazon RDS for SQL Server now supports SQL Server Agent.
Friday, August 24	This week, AWS continued to add many new products to AWS Marketplace, including two AMI-deployable CloudOptimizer products from CloudOpt Incorporated, and SaaS products Docunym, HotRiot Web Application Development Engine, Bias, and Insight. AWS is also excited to welcome our first South American vendor to AWS Marketplace, Artsoft Sistemas, who listed two versions of Fenicia this week.

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