Financial Times, the newspaper says it has reduced the query time from 27 to 6 seconds have also managed to reduce the cost by 80% by deploying its architecture on AWS’ cloud-based data warehousing service.
Amazon this week, enhanced its block storage offering with the addition of the new General Purpose (SSD), this new volume type was designed to offer balanced price/performance for a wide variety of workloads (small and medium databases, dev and test, and boot volumes, to name a few), and should be your first choice when creating new volumes.
Amazon Elastic Transcoder now supports captioning while transcoding the videos, which will allow its users to add, remove, or preserve captions as you transcode videos from one format to another, at no additional charge.
Case Studies
News From Amazon
- New SSD-Backed Elastic Block Storage
- Demystifying EC2 Resource-Level Permissions
- Process Captions with Amazon Elastic Transcoder
- CloudFormation supports VPC peering, EBS encryption, additional CloudFront configuration and more
- Amazon Elastic MapReduce now supports IAM roles and federated users
- Announcing Delivery Notifications
Blogs
- Detecting the Amazon Web Services Cloud Attack with Nessus
- How Airbnb used Amazon Web Services to conquer the rental market
- Amazon Web Services has a roadshow just for you
- Affordable performance and scalability with AWS Big Data solutions
- 7 Tips for Protecting your AWS Cloud
- Amazon: ‘Nordic customers are among the most innovative users of cloud computing in the world’
- Amazon Web Services Launches SSD-Based, General-Purpose Storage Volumes For EBS
- Managing the cost of a test management system and AWS
Video
- Leveraging SUSE Linux to run SAP HANA on the AMAZON Web Services Cloud
- Processing large data sets on Amazon Web Services using Batchly
- Introduction to EC2 Spot Instances
- High Performance Computing in the Cloud with AWS and Cycle Computing
Presentations
- Active Directory on AWS
- Scalable Web Applications Session at Codebase
- AWS Cloud Disaster Recovery Plan Checklist
- Improving Your AWS Cost Efficiency with Cloudability
- Web App Security on AWS: How to Make Shared Security Work for You
- AWS RoadShow Edinburgh – Geo.me Customer Presentation
Upcoming Webinars
- Intro to DevOps: Using Amazon RDS with AWS OpsWork| Jun 24, 2014 11:30 PM – Wed, Jun 25, 2014 12:30 AM IST
- Build high-scale applications with Amazon DynamoDB| Jun 26, 2014 12:30 AM – 1:30 AM IST
- Masterclass Series: AWS CloudFormation | June 26, 2014 2:30 PM IST
Recent Webinars
- Cost Management: Tracking, Allocating, Controlling Spend
- Web App Security on AWS: How to Make Shared Security Work for You
- Backup and Archiving in the AWS Cloud
- Improving Your AWS Cost Efficiency with Cloudability
- Amazon RDS for MySQL: Best Practices and Migration
Upcoming Events
- Cloud DevCon: The Developer Conference for Amazon Web Services | Burlingame, Calif | June 23-25
- AWS Government, Education, and Nonprofits Symposium | June 24-26
- Technical Bootcamps AWS Summit 2014 | New York | July 9
- AWS Summit 2014 | New York | July 10
