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EC2 Mobile
Downloads EC2 Mobile started as a requirement to launch, manage and monitor our clients' servers. When remote this is sometimes difficult and response time is of utmost priority. This was our mobile solution to this requirement.
[April 15, 2009, 14:56]
Amazon tweaks EC2 pricing for the enterprise
News Amazon has tweaked its Elastic Compute Cloud pricing model to be more enterprise friendly. The move is significant enough to sway IT executives to adopt more of Amazon's Web Services — especially when they have tight budgets.
[March 13, 2009, 13:39]
Jollat
Downloads A cross-platform Amazon Web Services (S3, EC2) client providing access to all the functionality the services have to offer from an easy-to-use interface. If you need to upload/download objects, change ACPs on S3 or manage instances, firewall rules...
[September 1, 2008, 21:00]
Shuttleworth: Amazon will win cloud battle
News Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud, or a new platform closely modelled on it, will emerge as the leading cloud standard, Canonical chief Mark Shuttleworth has predicted. Shuttleworth told delegates at a BT open-source event on Monday that to emerge as...
[October 5, 2009, 17:17]
Cloud from Amazon blows into Europe
Blog Amazon has created a European zone in its EC2 cloud, quoting fault tolerance, data separation and stability as reasons for giving the Old World a place of its own. Because it's a brand new region, users who want to move services and data across...
[December 10, 2008, 15:42]
Jollat
Downloads A cross-platform Amazon Web Services (S3, EC2) client providing access to all the functionality the services have to offer from an easy-to-use interface. If you need to upload/download objects, change ACPs on S3 or manage instances, EBS volumes...
[September 12, 2008, 9:26]
Amazon puts SQL in the cloud
News Amazon announced on Tuesday the Amazon Relational Database Service, a full MySQL 5.1 database available on demand in a number of configurations on its EC2 cloud system. Claiming full compatibility with existing code, applications and tools for...
[October 28, 2009, 16:14]
Amazon cloud service out of beta, adds Windows
News Amazon has taken its Elastic Compute Cloud service out of beta status and added Windows to Linux and Solaris on its list of supported operating systems. The Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), a service that gives customers on-demand access to Linux...
[October 24, 2008, 10:10]
Ubuntu cloud-computing components released
News Canonical, the company behind the Ubuntu Linux distribution, on Thursday announced two major components of its cloud-computing strategy. With the launch of version 9.04, Jaunty Jackalope, Ubuntu Server Edition is available on Amazon EC2, while...
[April 24, 2009, 16:23]
Amazon 'cloud' to offer Windows, SQL Server options
News Amazon said on Wednesday that it plans to offer its cloud-computing customers the option of running Microsoft's Windows Server operating system as well as its SQL Server database. Starting sometime this autumn, Amazon said customers of its EC2...
[October 2, 2008, 11:10]
Lightning takes down Amazon cloud
News Online book seller and cloud-computing provider Amazon.com has blamed the latest outage to hit its Elastic Compute Cloud service on a lightning strike at one of its datacentres. In a statement posted on the forums section of Amazon's web-services...
[June 11, 2009, 16:31]
Amazon launches Virtual Private Cloud service
News Amazon Web Services has launched a secure bridging service designed to connect enterprise datacentres with its cloud, filling in a missing part of its cloud lineup for enterprises. With Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), announced in a blog post on...
[August 27, 2009, 12:40]
Amazon puts Hadoop data-crunching in the cloud
News Amazon on Thursday announced a new cloud-computing service that uses Hadoop, an open-source software framework, to crunch large amounts of data. The service, called Amazon Elastic MapReduce, is designed for businesses, researchers and analysts...
[April 3, 2009, 13:04]
Novell releases Suse appliance-building kit
News Novell has launched a free group of technologies that will allow developers to create and deploy software appliances that can run in any virtual environment. The Suse Appliance Program, introduced on Tuesday, enables independent software vendors...
[July 29, 2009, 12:54]
Shuttleworth: Karmic Koala to make cloud 'dance'
News Extensive cloud-computing functionality will be built into Karmic Koala, the next version but one of Ubuntu, sponsor company Canonical has announced. Canonical chief Mark Shuttleworth introduced Karmic Koala on Friday, in a post on the Ubuntu site.
[February 23, 2009, 12:52]
'Jaunty Jackalope' Ubuntu goes into beta
News The next version of the Ubuntu Linux distribution, code-named Jaunty Jackalope, went into its beta phase late on Thursday. Ubuntu 9.04, as it is more properly known, includes a range of enhancements over its predecessor, Intrepid Ibex, or Ubuntu 8.10.
[March 27, 2009, 11:30]
Amazon blames outage on complicated systems
News Amazon.com appears to be blaming its complicated infrastructure for the outage that left it inaccessible to many US visitors for more than an hour and a half on Friday. Amazon declared itself clear of the problem on Friday afternoon.
[June 9, 2008, 15:41]
BMC management tool rides Amazon cloud
News BMC Software is tapping into Amazon Web Services for a new tool that will manage both in-house and cloud-based services through a single portal. The new Business Service Management (BSM) platform, announced on Wednesday, will allow companies to dip...
[July 17, 2009, 8:15]
Cobol moves into Amazon's cloud
News Micro Focus is extending its Enterprise Cloud Services to support Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), allowing businesses to shift their existing Cobol applications to Amazon's infrastructure. The move, announced on Tuesday, follows Micro Focus's...
[January 15, 2009, 14:39]
IBM joins with Amazon to further cloud push
News IBM announced Wednesday plans to deliver its software via Amazon Web Services, in a move to push its software into the cloud. IBM will use Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) to offer its customers and third-party developers its software based on...
[February 12, 2009, 8:52]
