Posts Tagged ‘Amazon Web Services’

New Amazon RDS features

Nice replication features in Amazon’s RDS

Management Console – You can now use the web-based AWS Management Console to launch Database Instances (including highly available and reliable Multi-AZ deployments), take real-time snapshots of a DB Instance, and view important database statistics.
Multi-AZ Deployments – With a single API call, you can create a MySQL Database Instance that is synchronously replicated across Availability Zones to provide enhanced data protection and availability in the face of planned or unplanned outages.
Now in all AWS Regions – Amazon RDS is now available in all Amazon Web Services Regions: US East (Northern Virginia), US West (Northern California), EU (Ireland), and Asia Pacific (Singapore).

Amazon EC2: Only one IP-address per instance

This is one thing I really don’t like at Amazon’s EC2 service:

Can an instance have more than one Elastic IP or Public IP?

Today, an instance can only have one Internet routable IP address. If an Elastic IP is mapped to an instance its existing Public IP address mapping is removed.

(http://developer.amazonwebservices.com/connect/entry.jspa?externalID=1346)

Amazon announces Relational Database Service (RDS)

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We are excited to announce the public beta of Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS), a new web service that makes it easy to set up, operate, and scale relational databases in the cloud. Amazon RDS gives you all the features and capabilities of a MySQL database, while managing time-consuming database administration tasks and providing the cost-efficiency of running in the AWS cloud. We’re also excited to announce lower prices for Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances and a new family of Amazon EC2 High-Memory Instances, tailored for customers wanting to run their own large databases and other memory intensive applications. To get started using Amazon RDS, High-Memory Instances for Amazon EC2, and other Amazon Web Services, visit http://aws.amazon.com.

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Here comes the private cloud

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Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) is a secure and seamless bridge between a company’s existing IT infrastructure and the AWS cloud. Amazon VPC enables enterprises to connect their existing infrastructure to a set of isolated AWS compute resources via a Virtual Private Network (VPN) connection, and to extend their existing management capabilities such as security services, firewalls, and intrusion detection systems to include their AWS resources. Amazon VPC integrates today with Amazon EC2, and will integrate with other AWS services in the future. As with all Amazon Web Services, there are no long-term contracts, minimum spend or up-front investments required. With Amazon VPC, you pay only for the resources you use.

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