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Amazon Announces Free Monitoring for Amazon EC2 Instances

Amazon today announced that all EC2 instances would be eligible for free monitoring via their EC2 monitoring service called CloudWatch. This free service allows customers to get monitoring metrics on their services in 5 minute increments. [...]

Amazon EC2 Announces Lower Priced Micro Instances

Amazon Web Services has announced the release of new Micro Instances for EC2 – smaller, cheaper instances for less demanding applications. Available On-Demand, the pricing for the new Micro Instances start at $0.02 – $0.03 per [...]

Amazon releases AWS Identity and Access Management

Amazon AWS has announced the beta release of a new AWS feature that will allow customers to create multiple users under a single AWS account. They are calling it AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM). In [...]

Uploading Large Files to Amazon S3 is Tricky

Amazon claims that the largest file you can store on S3 is 5 GB. In reality, uploading a file that large to Amazon S3 is nearly impossible. While we were testing TyphoonDrive, we noticed that very [...]

Amazon Announces Addition Of Amazon S3 To The AWS Management Console

Amazon announced today that the AWS Management Console will now support Amazon S3. This should simplify the management of Amazon S3 resources enabling the web based creation of S3 buckets and the uploading of objects. Support [...]

Amazon Announces General Availability of AWS Import/Export

Amazon recently announced that their popular Import/Export service is now out of beta and is generally available. Amazon has been attracting the migration of traditional IT shops operations by offering a very cheap service that will [...]

Secure Solutions from Cirrhus9 and SecuCloud

Cirrhus9 and SecuCloud have joined forces to add to the compatibility and security of database computing. What they’ve done is created a solution made up of two parts, both of which are available for use on [...]

Amazon Announces RRS (Reduced Redundancy Storage) – $.10 per GB!

Wow! Amazon announced today the availability for their RRS service that will start out at $.10/gb. For Amazon, this comes down to; “how important is your data?”. Their S3 service is designed for 99.999999999% of uptime. [...]