An organization may have both on-premises and cloud-based storages running on different platforms while hosting a copy of each other’s data, then the organization has to implement a software mechanism to keep data on both storages in sync. Organizations using Amazon’s AWS can enhance the integration of their on-premises storage appliances with the respective AWS storage. The new AWS...
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Amazon Cloud free usage tier service now includes Microsoft Windows Servers 2008 R2 on micro instances. The one year almost free trial which give users up to 750 hours per month of cloud computing services is an excellent starting point for users wanting to learn Cloud computing using Amazon’s EC2. Running Linux on micro...
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Amazon EC2 functionality now includes a status check to help identify problems related to an instance ability to run applications. EC2 contains an automated process that tests every running instance and tries to detect both hardware and software issues. The mechanism reports problems back to customers where they would be able to distinguish software...
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Amazon’s Cloud computing management console now includes complete support for Amazon DNS service, Route 53. Route 53 is a highly available and scalable Domain Name System (DNS) web service. The DNS service allows you to create your hosted zones and set up the appropriate records in a similar manner that you may be accustomed...
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Amazon’s Simple Email Service (SES) is now accessible from the management console. A new tab in AWS Management Console provides access to all SES important features freeing users from installing and running the command line version. However, users still need to call the SES API to send production emails. The Amazon Simple Email Service gives you...
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November 2011, Amazon launches a new AWS region in Oregon. The new Pacific Northwest US region supports S3, EC2 with Auto Scaling features, SimpleDB, RDS, SQS, SNS, Elastic MapReduce, CloudFormation and CloudWatch. Pricing is similar to other US regions while, customers from the west region can now benefit from a second region that provides...
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