I have been running with 2 micro on demand instances. I now want to convert one of the servers to a small instance. I have purchased a Windows small reserved instance in us-east-1b and it is now appearing under "reserved instances".
My micro instances are also in us-east-1b and are running Windows. Do I need to create another instance?
I'm playing with the pricing page on AWS for EC2 instances. My understanding is you have "on-demand" which is pay as you go and then you have reserved instances where you pre pay. So coming from a VPS setup, am i correct in assuming that a reserved instances in AWS terminology is equivalent to a VPS plan? Granted I have to pay a year ahead but I wasn't sure if I'm missing anything else?
Cloud Express is a service from Apptio that illustrates how managing the cost of the cloud will become one of the hottest markets in the enterprise space this year.
Cloud Express, launched in December, is a free service that targets developers and DevOps managers who use AWS, Windows Azure, and Rackspace. The company says that its recommendation engine is its differentiator, allowing customers to
I want to assign a reserved IP for an instance on EC2 so that I can use it in my configuration files. I associated an elastic IP with that instance but it changed when I stopped the instance. I have to setup application which depends on IP of instance, if IP changes, my application will fail to work. Please suggest a way so that the IP remains associated with instance permanently.
If you use Amazon Web Services EC2 for virtualising your infrastructure, you may find that once you have a few instances started, that it may be hard (especially if you aren't using a configuration management tool) to trace back 'which machine belongs to what security group?' or 'which AMI did I use to bring up this instance?.' Well theres a few quick tricks you can use to get some info out o
Did something change on Amazon recently?
I'm trying to redeploy to my Amazon instance, and the "Publish to Amazon Cloudformation" plugin for VS 2010 no longer appears to update my instance.
Amazon’s onslaught in disrupting enterprise IT services continues. The company today announced that it would be making Redshift — its cloud-based data warehousing service — widely available, after first launching the product on a limited release at the end of November.
I'm a software/web developer and for the first time I have to set up a cloud system to host one of the websites I have coded. I found very difficult to estimate the costs for an Amazon EC2 cloud system using the provided calculator.
We all know that Amazon is a major player in the U.S. on numerous fronts, and the Amazon Cloud Player certainly counts as one. The Cloud Player, as you may know, provides the ability to upload music to Amazon’s servers allowing playback on a device without taking up precious storage space on the device. However, while we’ve been enjoying this service in the U.S.
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