Today we are excited to announce that we have added the ability to use EC2 Run Command with your Linux instances. Back in October, we launched EC2 Run Command, a feature that enables you to securely manage the configuration of your Amazon EC2 instances. With the addition of Linux support, you can now easily and consistently Read more about EC2 Run Command now supports Linux[…]
Slack is a messaging app that makes it easy for teams to communicate with each other and with their automated systems. AWS Lambda now makes it easy to get started building chat-based DevOps solutions with new console blueprints. These blueprints help you post Amazon CloudWatch alarms and other Amazon SNS messages to your team’s Slack Read more about AWS Lambda Launches Slack Integration Blueprints[…]
You can now launch the t2.nano, the newest Amazon EC2 burstable-performance instance. Starting at only $4.75 per month ($0.0065 per hour), it is the lowest priced Amazon EC2 instance. The t2.nano features 512 MiB of memory and 1 vCPU, making it well suited for workloads that require a consistent baseline performance with the ability to Read more about Introducing t2.nano: the Smallest, Lowest Cost Amazon EC2 Instance[…]
Earlier this year at AWS re:Invent, we announced the aws-shell project, which provides a number of convenience and productivity features to users of the AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI). The project is now available on GitHub (https://github.com/awslabs/aws-shell) and PyPI (https://pypi.python.org/pypi/aws-shell). The current list of key features include: Auto-completion of commands and options Auto-completion of Read more about Annoucing aws-shell – the interactive productivity booster for the AWS CLI[…]
We are excited to announce that starting today the Amazon Machine Images (AMI) Copy Service supports copying AMIs from another AWS account within the same AWS region or across regions.The process of copying AMIs from another AWS account is same as copying AMIs within your account. You can use the AWS Management Console, EC2 Command Read more about Enhancements to the Amazon Machine Images (AMI) Copy Service[…]
Starting today, you can launch Amazon EC2 instances with an encrypted Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) boot volume, which together with EBS data volume encryption means you can now encrypt all your EBS storage. Source: Amazon Web Services News
You can now launch Oracle Database Standard Edition Two (SE2) instances under the Bring Your Own License (“BYOL”) licensing model as well as take advantage of Oracle 12c and 11g October 2015 Oracle Patch Set Updates (PSU). Source: Amazon Web Services News
Introduction PHP 7.0 was released on December 3, 2015. It promises substantial speed improvements over previous versions of the language, along with new features like scalar type hinting. This guide explains how to quickly upgrade an Apache or Nginx web server which currently runs PHP 5.x (any release within PHP version 5). Note: As with Read more about How To Upgrade to PHP 7 on Ubuntu 14.04[…]
You can now use DynamoDB as the storage backend for the newest version of the Titan graph engine, 1.0.0. Titan 1.0.0 provides support for TinkerPop 3, as well as several bug fixes and optimizations. Tinkerpop 3 is the latest version of the Tinkerpop graph computing framework. For full list of updates in Titan 1.0.0 please Read more about Amazon DynamoDB: Titan Graph Database Integration[…]
<p>This DocumentDB service update adds the TOP keyword to the SQL grammar, several query performance optimizations, limit increases for query operators, and support for additional LINQ operators in the .NET SDK 1.5.2.</p> Source: Microsoft Azure News