Amazon Cloud (EC2) Latest News
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MySQL Read Replica now supported in Amazon VPC
Read Replica copy accepts read traffic even after Source DB instance has been deleted.
Simple Email Service (SES) supports now Domain Verification
SES now supports domain verification along with individual email address verification process for sending email. Simply verify your entire domain name and start sending emails from any address on it.
Amazon CloudFront start supporting Dynamic Contents
CloudFront can now be used to deliver dynamic contents to provide the global reach of your dynamic websites.
Cluster Compute Eight Extra Large Instance support now available in Amazon VPC
Cc2.8xlarge instance provides on-demand supercomputing class performance on Intel Xeon processors. Support is now available in Amazon VPC.
DynamoDB BatchWriteItem feature
With this feature, you can add, delete or replace up to 25 items in a single request
Amazon CloudSearch
Create a search domain, upload docs as JSON or XML and start searching.
Reserved Cache Nodes announced for Amazon ElastiCache
Reserved cache improves web application performance by retrieving contents from fast and in-memory caching system. Reserved cache save up to 70% of cost over Demand prices
Live Smooth Streaming for Amazon CloudFront
Live Smooth Streaming, feature of IIS Media Service, enables adaptive streaming of live media to Microsoft Silverlight clients
Enhanced Live Streaming for Amazon CloudFront
Adobe Flash Media Server 4.5 is also supported in CloudFront on Amazon EC2 to configure live HTTP streaming for both Flash-based and Apple iOS devices.
Amazon Route 53 Latency Based Routing (LBR) feature
Route 53 LBR feature automatically redirect end-users to the lowest latency region
AWS Elastic Beanstalk now support PHP and Git Deployment
Beanstalk makes it easier to quickly deploy and manage PHP & Java applications in the AWS Cloud. Git speeds up deployment by pushing only modified files to AWS Elastic Beanstalk.
Access Linux instances directly from the EC2 Management Console without client software
Use IAM for password management and applying restriction on billing information
IAM console can be used for password management like enforcing password complexity, and billing information access like Account Activity/Usage report without giving access to other AWS resources.
Use AWS IAM for applying permissions on AWS Elastic Beanstalk resources.
Fine grain control over which IAM users and groups have access to Elastic Beanstalk recourses
Amazon Simple Workflow Service (beta)
Workflows can be executed reliably at different times in distributed applications
SunGuard Disaster Recovery
For EC2 users to back up VM & data, SunGuard uses Amazon’s Direct Connect service, private VLAN, for data transfer, bi-directionally disaster recovery service, without data transfer over internet.
Amazon VPC now support CloudFormation
CloudFormation template consolidates Amazon resources together for easily deploying the multi-tier web apps.
AWS Storage Gateway (beta) released
Install Storage Gateway on-premise and securely upload data to the AWS cloud for cost effective backup and disaster recovery.
Amazon VPC now supports RDS
All RDS functionalities now available like managing backups, replication for HA, patching, and scaling.
IAM enables Identity federation to the AWS Console
Use your corporate IDs to grant access to the AWS Management Console without creating new AWS identities
Amazon DynamicDB (beta)
NoSQL database service. Unlimited and rapidly grow the capacity to meet the heavily generated DB read/write requests. Doesn’t support complex relational queries or complex transactions. Automatically spread you data workload across multiple servers without any downtime. Whereas, SimpleDB has a size limit of 10GB.
AWS Direct Connect now in four new locations
Now in four new locations, One WilShire (LA), TelecityGroup (London), Equinix (Singapore), Equinix (Tokyo). Other two locations are Equinix (VA) & Silicon Valley (CA).
SNS support for Delivery Policies & Message Formatting
Delivery policies control HTTP retries and Message formatting ensures message content optimization with different protocols like email, http and sms.
Object Expiration support in S3
Schedule removal of objects at defined time period. No charge to use this feature
VPC support multiple Elastic Network interfaces
Elastic Network Interfaces are virtual network interfaces that can be attached to EC2 instances in your VPC to run dual-homed networks.
SMTP support has been added with Amazon Simple Email Service
Run job flows using Hadoop & Pig with new feature of AMI Versioning to use at job flow.
Hadoop is an open source distributed processing framework that splits large datasets into small chunks and spread it over machines and managing the overall process by jobs.
Multi-object deletion up to 1000 objects at a time
Elastic load balancing support in VPC
Elastic Load Balancing supports load balancing of applications using HTTP, HTTPS, SSL and 1024-65535. It also supports IPv6.
Spot instances now supported in VPC
It allows customers to bid on unused EC2 capacity and run those instances for as long as their bid exceeds the current Spot Price
Windows support
Now EC2 supports Win 2k8 R2, SQL 2k8 R2 instances including Cluster compute and Cluster GPU instances.
AWS FISMA
AWS received FISMA authorization and accreditation covering EC2, S3, VPC
Template based AWS Identity & Access Mgt (IAM)
IAM enables you to use your existing corporate identities to grant secure and direct access to AWS resources
AWS Management Console Adds Support for Amazon SQS
Hosted queue for storing messages as they travel between computers.
Amazon S3 Encryption
Server-side Encryption-Uses AES-256 to encrypt data on S3
Client-Side Encryption- before sending it to S3.
