Amazon Web Services News & Articles

Adobe has created a virtual development playground combining the use of LiveCycle Developer Express and Amazon Web Services. The goal is to provide developers an environment in which they can easily and quickly build and test enterprise applications. No longer will developers have to wait endless amounts of time to reboot server instances when working.

Now that Amazon Web Services is starting to gain traction in the hosted application market, AWS today announced a new tool that will allow Amazon Web Service users to keep tabs on their AWS services. The first release of the management console is focused on the Elastic Compute Cloud (or EC2), AWS' virtualized server computing resource.

We have seen tools such as Ylastic that allow for monitoring of AWS utilities such as Amazon EC2, S3, SQS and SimpleDB, but the newly released tool from Amazon Web Services is the first to originate from AWS itself.

Amazon Web Services, the hosted application environment from Amazon.com, announced the availability of the Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) in Europe. Having Amazon EC2 in Europe will mean developers and businesses can build applications and websites on the EC2 platform with less latency, as computational data will not have to travel across the Internet as a part of the workload.

Rackspace, the widely-used Web hosting provider, has announced two major acquisitions that will add value to its cloud computing offerings. In a tandem move, the hosting company has purchased JungleDisk and Slicehost.

JungleDisk is a popular client that gives Windows, Mac and Linux users easy access to Amazon’s Simple Storage Service (S3) by providing the cloud storage offering as a drive letter on their computer. Additionally, by acquiring SliceHost, Rackspace picks up a hosting competitor and will integrate Slicehost’s storage capabilities with JungleDisk as an additional storage facility within the JungleDisk client.

An integral part of Amazon’s cloud computing services is showing a sign of maturity, while adding a much anticipated element. The Elastic Compute Cloud (aka EC2), which facilitates a Linux server environment as a service for Web developers, has come out of beta.

Additionally, as previously rumored, Amazon.com has added an on-demand Windows Server environment to accompany the already existing OpenSolaris and Solaris Express Community Edition offerings.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) not only provides impressive storage, distribution, hosting and computing solutions for Web developers, but this Amazon subsidiary also offers remarkable pricing that has never before been seen. So, how does a company do much better than this? Well, how about offering even cheaper prices?

We’ve recently discovered two resources that will make your life a little easier should you work with Amazon Web Services (AWS) either as a data manager or developer.

Ylastic is a tool built upon AWS Infrastructure Services. With this tool, you can manage Amazon S3, EC2, SQS, and SimpleDB all from one easy to use interface. The Ylastic tool also allows users to set up monitoring, alerts, reporting tools and functional dashboards to keep tabs on one’s AWS cloud computing utilization and health.

Also, if you are a developer, the Amazon Web Services Developer Relations team has collected the most used data types, function calls and command line tools for their popular services in Quick Reference Cards. The cards are available for Amazon EC2, Amazon SQS, Amazon DevPay, Amazon Mechanical Turk, Fulfillment Web Service and Amazon Associates Web Service, with more guides to come in the coming months.

Amazon has recently informed its AWS customers that Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) will allow users to run Microsoft Windows Server or Microsoft SQL Server later this fall. For those who take advantage of those two Microsoft products, this is surely news to get excited about.

Amazon Web Services (AWS), a provider of Internet data storage and delivery services, is expanding options for developers and enterprises looking to host their databases on the AWS cloud computing platform.

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), a scalable web service solution offered by AWS, is now the first authorized cloud computing platform to run supported Oracle databases.

You’ve got an idea for the next great Facebook application, assuming Scrabulous and Vampires are not great enough, and you want the application to be available to all 55 million active (and growing) Facebook members.

What you don’t have is a bucket full of money (or venture funding) to pay for a server farm?

What do you do, hot shot? What do you do?