Amazon has announced a new AWS region in Sydney, Australia with the name
ap-southeast-2.
It is time to expand the AWS footprint once again, with a new Region in Sydney, Australia. AWS customers in Australia can now enjoy fast, low-latency access to the suite of AWS infrastructure services.” Read More
(This guest post written and contributed by Jeff Kaplan, Managing Director of THINKstrategies)
Sometimes trying to save money can become costly and complicated.
A case in point is the growing popularity of Amazon Web Services’ (AWS) EC2 Reserved Instances (RIs) which enable users to obtain spare cloud capacity in anticipation of future use.
The first part of this series presented 15 tips for optimizing your AWS costs. In this section, we will talk about ways you can optimize your AWS costs by using Reserved EC2 Instances service.
Newvem Cloud Usage Analytics RI Recommendation - Hourly Utilization (last 30 days)
The following article was posted on GigaOm and was based on our analysis and cloud security insights that Newvem’s big data engine reveals. In this article, you will find 5 important low hanging fruits that you should recognize in order to have your Amazon cloud account secure. If you are an Amazon cloud services’ user, we invite you to connect your AWS cloud account to our non-intrusive service in order to know your cloud and learn more, not only your AWS security, but also about money that you’re wasting, point of failures (POFs) and poor performance yields.
The cloud presents many security management challenges. Ensuring compliance, identity management, and other security best practices can be a challenging task. AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) is one of the tools that can be used to mitigate the risks associated with these challenges. In this article, I will discuss a few of the high points of IAM, including the different options and limitations that this AWS service brings together with its fascinating capabilities.
Many cloud computing users strive to apply security best practices to their cloud computing strategies. One of the best components that Amazon offers to manage security in their cloud computing service is their IAM mechanism, which allows an account owner to create users and manage their permissions within an AWS account.
OpenX Source is a free, open-source ad server that allows publishers to manage their ad inventory and set up complex campaigns with sophisticated targeting rules.
Unfortunately, since OpenX has been focusing on their SaaS solution, the open source version is not well supported anymore. Nevertheless, many publishers still use and maintain their OpenX installations as there is a lack of open source alternatives offering the same flexibility and functionality.
Existing documentation to a great extent assumes a single server installation. For high traffic web sites delivering a large volume of advertisement impressions, there is a need for a more scalable setup.
In this article we will describe the steps we have taken to implement OpenX on a multi-server, auto-scaling setup running in AWS cloud and managed via Scalr. A similar approach could, of course, be configured outside the Scalr or even AWS context. We will mention some of the alternatives.
Lets start with a basic scenario where there is a sudden peak in the demand for an application service as the amount of clients’ requests increase. This event leads to a direct and immediate impact of the loa placed on the web servers that host the service. In the traditional world, the number of servers is fixed, therefore an overload adversely affects the application performance and the service may slow down or even be terminated. The IT team would want to restore the environment functionality and bring the service up as soon as possible. The immediate impact of such an event on the business can be devastating. Starting with this simple understanding, we can move into the world of cloud computing use including resources consumption, while relating to the key differences between the traditional data center and today’s cloud technologies.
By: Jeff Barr - Senior Manager, Cloud Computing Solutions at Amazon.com, Inc Learn how-to predict costs quickly and accurately. Barr presents his 5Ms model, gives specific application examples, and then prices the applications using the AWS Simple Monthly Calculator.
