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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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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AWS announced a public beta version of its new High Performance Computing (HPC) cluster with eight extra large instances, high bandwidth and low latency features that allow customers to run CPU intensive applications such as, physics simulations, aircraft design and others. This new Cluster Compute instance provides 2.5 times the CPU performance, more memory...
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Scientific projects that consume massive computing power and that require secure environments can now leverage a combination of Amazon’s Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) and EC2 Spot Instances. With VPC organizations can fulfill the security requirements through a controlled and isolated environment, while with Spot Instances they can get great cost benefits. Now, users can...
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