JULY IN AWS

Jul 08, 2013

Amazon Elastic Transcoder Announces Visual Watermarking and

Other Enhancements

Amazon Elastic Transcoder has recently been armored with three new

enhancements:

Visual Marketing: Overlay upto 4 images on your video which can be used

for watermarking your videos.

Maximum Video Bit rate parameter: Control instantaneous bit rate in

videos for playback specification.

Maximum Frame Parameter: Specify maximum frame rate for videos to

limit it in devices where it may exceed.

Announcing Resource-Level Permissions for Amazon EC2 and

Amazon RDS

These new features will give you more granular visibility and control over

your development, test, staging and production deployments on EC2 and

RDS.

You can now construct fine-grained AWS Identity and Access Management

(IAM) policies for EC2 and RDS to control which users are authorized to

perform what actions on a given set of resources.

Jul 09, 2013

Price Reductions on Amazon EC2 Dedicated Instances

There is a huge price reduction of up to 80% on Amazon EC2 Dedicated

Instances.

Here are the details:

Dedicated Per Region Fee - An 80% price reduction from $10 per hour to

$2 per hour in any Region where at least one Dedicated Instance of any

type is running.

Dedicated On-Demand Instances - A reduction of up to 37% in hourly

costs. For example the price of an m1.xlarge Dedicated Instance in the US

East (Northern Virginia) Region will drop from $0.840 per hour to $0.528

per hour.

Dedicated Reserved Instances - A reduction of up to 57% on the

Reserved Instance upfront fee and the hourly instance usage fee. Dedicated

Reserved Instances also provide additional savings of up to 65% compared

to Dedicated On-Demand instances.

To learn more about Dedicated Instances and to see a complete list of prices,

please visit theAmazon EC2 Dedicated Instances page.

Jul 12, 2013

Amazon Elastic MapReduce introduces MapR M7 support

Amazon Elastic MapReduce is now available with MapR7. For customers

looking to deploy HBase, M7 offers seamless splits, no compactions, instant

recovery from failure, point-in-time recovery, full HA, mirroring, and

consistent low latency.

Learn More >>

Jul 17, 2013

Introducing an Updated Elastic Beanstalk Management Console

AWS is now ready with updated management console for AWS Elastic

Beanstalk. The updated management console simplifies creating and

configuring Elastic Beanstalk environments. In addition, you can now

configure your environment to run inside an Amazon VPC, an isolated virtual

network where your AWS resources run.

Try the new Elastic Beanstalk management console.

Jul 24, 2013

AWS OpsWorks supports Chef 11 and custom Amazon Machine

Images

These new features make it easy to manage applications when you are

working on OpsWorks.

Chef 11: With this update, you can use Chef 11 features in your recipes and

a broader set of community cookbooks. New stacks will now support Chef 11

by default.

Custom Amazon Machine Images (AMIs): You can now use custom

Amazon Machine Images (AMI) with AWS OpsWorks. Custom AMIs let you

save the state of an Amazon EC2 instance including any software packages

that you require in your desired configuration.

Learn More

Introducing Version 2 of the AWS SDK for .NET (Developer Preview)

The Version 2 SDK adds support for Windows Store and Windows Phone apps,

helping Windows developers use the AWS cloud from these new platforms.

The SDK also adopts the .NET task-based asynchronous pattern; which

simplifies making asynchronous calls with the new

sync and awaits keywords.

To explore the new SDK, visit the SDK page.

Jul 28, 2013

Amazon CloudFront and Route 53 Add India Edge Locations in

Chennai and Mumbai

These new edge locations help lower latency and improve performance for

your end users. These two sites bring the total number of AWS edge locations

to 42 worldwide.

The locations in India support all CloudFront and Route 53 capabilities,

including delivery of your entire website (including dynamic content), live and

on-demand streaming media, and security features like custom SSL

certificates.

To learn more about CloudFront and the pricing for India edge locations,

please visit the Amazon CloudFront detail page.

Jul 29, 2013

Announcing AWS Self-Paced Labs

AWS hands-on training labs are designed to help you test products, acquire

new skills, and gain practical experience working with AWS technologies.

Available anywhere, anytime, you have freedom to take self-paced labs on-

demand and learn at your own pace.

To learn more about the AWS Self-Paced Labs,

visit http://aws.amazon.com/training/self-paced-labs.

Jul 30, 2013

Elastic Load Balancing adds support for Proxy Protocol

Elastic Load Balancing (ELB) now supports Proxy Protocol version 1. This

feature allows you to identify the client’s connection information when using

TCP load balancing, providing additional insight into visitors to your

applications.

To learn more, visit our AWS blog or the Elastic Load Balancing Development

Guide.

Jul 31, 2013

Amazon Redshift - New features and built-in functions

Amazon RedShift is now upgraded with new features. It is simplified loading

with support for scientific notation, automatic detection of date and time

formats and seconds or milliseconds since epoch. We’ve improved

compression with byte dictionary encoding of VARCHAR columns, query

flexibility with functions for SHA1, MD5, time zone conversions, and workload

management with support for setting maximum query execution times for

queues.

To learn more about Amazon Redshift and its new features visit the Amazon

Redshift product detail page and documentation.

Aug 01, 2013

Amazon Simple Workflow launches AWS Flow Framework for Ruby

Amazon has announced the availability of the AWS Flow Framework for Ruby,

an ease of use library that makes it faster and easier to build applications

with Amazon Simple Workflow (Amazon SWF). Developers can use Amazon

Simple Workflow to coordinate, audit, and scale work on one or more

machines – in the AWS cloud or other data centers.

To learn more about the service, visit the the Amazon SWF page.

Aug 02, 2013

Amazon Elastic MapReduce now supports Hive 0.11.0 and Pig 0.11.1

Amazon Elastic MapReduce (EMR) now supports Hive 0.11.0 and Pig 0.11.1.

These new versions of Hive and Pig provide performance improvements and

offer multiple new features including new operators and data types as well as

bug fixes.

To learn more about these updates, or for more information on Hive or Pig,

please see the Hiveor Pig sections of the Amazon EMR documentation.