AWS Management Console Improvements to EC2 Tab

AWS recently made some improvements to the EC2 tab of the AWS Management Console. It is now easier to access the AWS Marketplace and to configure attached storage (EBS volumes and ephemeral storage) for EC2 instances.

Read on a good post by Jeff.

Marketplace Access

This one is really simple, but definitely worth covering. You can now access the AWS Marketplace from the Launch Instances Wizard:

After you enter your search terms and click the Go button, the Marketplace results page will open in a new tab. Here's what happens when I search for wordpress:

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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