Tag: Amazon EC2

Feed: What's New. Amazon EC2 Spot now allows Amazon EBS-backed instances to be stopped in the event of interruption, instead of being terminated when capacity is no longer available at your preferred price. Spot can then fulfill your request by restarting instances from a stopped state when capacity is available within your price and time requirements. To use this new feature, choose “stop” instead of “terminate” as the interruption behavior when submitting a persistent Spot request. When you choose “stop”, Spot will shut down your instance upon interruption. The EBS root device and attached EBS volumes are saved, and their ... Read More

Feed: What's New. CodeDeploy is a service that automates code deployments to any instance, including Amazon EC2 instances and instances running on-premises. AWS CodeDeploy is available in the US East (Ohio), US East (N. Virginia), US West (N. California), US West (Oregon), Canada(Central), EU (Ireland), EU (Frankfurt), EU (London), Asia Pacific (Sydney), Asia Pacific (Seoul), Asia Pacific (Singapore), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), and South America (Sao Paulo) regions.  For more information on CodeDeploy: ... Read More

Feed: AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog. Author: Ian Scofield. By Ian Scofield, Juan Villa, and Mike Ruiz GameDay is an immersive, team-based event we’ve hosted at AWS Summits and re:Invent over the past few years. The event has teams of players settling into a challenging—and hopefully entertaining—scenario as DevOps leads at Unicorn.Rentals, a popular startup minutes away from the very public launch of a widely anticipated product. For more information, see the GameDay website. Of course, we have a lot going on behind the scenes to make GameDay work. Beyond all the enthusiastic acting and silly props, you’ll find a ... Read More

Feed: AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog. Author: Lauren Small. By Peter Sideris, AWS Technical Account Manager Bridgewater Associates, based in Westport, CT, is a major investment management firm with more than $150 billion in assets that it manages for a global customer base of pension funds, endowments, foundations, central banks, and national governments. It is also an Amazon Web Services (AWS) customer that we’ve worked closely with over the past year and half, developing a partnership that helps Bridgewater leverage the tools—and benefits—of the AWS Cloud. Last December, Bridgewater Systems Engineer Joel Thompson approached us with questions around the features ... Read More

Feed: What's New. Previously, you could only restrict Run Command access based on instance IDs, which required manual permission updates as your environment scaled up or down. Now, you can control Run Command access based on instance tags using your existing AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) policies. For example, you can tag instances based on business units and only allow access to those instances to members of that business unit. When new instances are launched with tags, the corresponding IAM permissions are automatically applied.  In addition, you can now target instances using multiple tags. Previously, you could only target ... Read More

Feed: AWS Compute Blog. Author: Arun Gupta. There are multiple ways to run a Kubernetes cluster on Amazon Web Services (AWS). The first post in this series explained how to manage a Kubernetes cluster on AWS using kops. This second post explains how to manage a Kubernetes cluster on AWS using CoreOS Tectonic.Tectonic overview Tectonic delivers the most current upstream version of Kubernetes with additional features. It is a commercial offering from CoreOS and adds the following features over the upstream: InstallerComes with a graphical installer that installs a highly available Kubernetes cluster. Alternatively, the cluster can be installed using AWS CloudFormation ... Read More

Feed: What's New. Lifecycle hooks allow you to control what happens when your Amazon EC2 instances are launched and terminated as you scale out and in. For example, you might download and install software when an instance is launching, and archive instance log files in Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) when an instance is terminating. There is no charge for using Auto Scaling; you pay only for the underlying instances provisioned. To learn more about lifecycle hooks, visit the Auto Scaling documentation ... Read More

Feed: What's New. Amazon EC2 X1 instances were launched to extend the elasticity, simplicity, and cost savings of the AWS cloud to enterprise-grade applications with the largest dataset requirements for our customers. Today, we are excited to announce the general availability of a new EC2 instance in the X1 family – x1e.32xlarge – to take those benefits further for our customers. x1e.32xlarge offers 3,904 GiB of DDR4 instance memory, the most memory offered by any EC2 instance. This new instance enables customers to run larger in-memory databases, such as SAP HANA, and other memory-intensive and latency sensitive workloads compared to ... Read More

Feed: What's New. Amazon Inspector is pleased to announce expanded support for security assessments on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.4 within Amazon EC2. You can now run assessments for Common Vulnerabilities & Exposures (CVE), Amazon Security Best Practices, and Runtime Behavior Analysis on the most recent version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux. To run security assessments, simply install the Amazon Inspector AWS Agent on the desired EC2 instance, configure your assessment in the Amazon Inspector console, and run your assessment.  ... Read More

Feed: AWS Big Data Blog. Amazon EMR lets you have complete control over your cluster, giving you the flexibility to customize a cluster and install additional applications easily. EMR customers often use bootstrap actions to install and configure custom software in a cluster. However, bootstrap actions only run during the cluster or node startup. This makes it difficult for you to make configuration changes after a cluster is already running.EMR clusters can also use a custom Amazon Machine Image (AMI). With the new support for launching clusters with custom Amazon Linux AMIs, customizing an EMR cluster is now even easier ... Read More