White Paper: Using Amazon SQS to Scale EC2 Applications (July 1, 2008)
The Amazon SQS team have released several new resources to showcase the value of using their message queuing service in the cloud with Amazon EC2-powered applications. This white paper outlines high-level benefits of incorporating asynchronous message queuing with Amazon EC2; a new developer article focuses on implementing auto-scaling with Amazon SQS; and a sample application to get you started.
JBoss on Amazon EC2 (June 17, 2008)
Red Hat has announced their second offering on Amazon EC2 - JBoss Enterprise Application Platform. Now available on EC2's flexible, pay-as-you-go computing environment, JBoss Enterprise Application Platform provides developers with the most popular clustered Java EE application server and next generation application frameworks to build innovative and scalable Java applications. Learn more.
High-CPU Instances Now Available (May 29, 2008)
A new family of Amazon EC2 instances types is now available: the High-CPU family. These instances have proportionally more CPU resources than RAM (compared to our Standard Instances) and are well suited for compute-intensive applications such as rendering, search indexing, and computational analysis. Since this was a popular feature request among EC2 developers, we are excited to offer these new instances to complement our existing instances sizes. Read more about the Amazon EC2 Instance Types.
New Functionality Added to Amazon FPS Widgets (May 13, 2008)
Amazon FPS has released a new Marketplace Widget, which allows developers to easily move money between two third parties, and a new Marketplace Fee feature enables them to charge a fee for doing so. In addition, new functionality has been added to the "Pay Now" Widget allowing developers to quickly integrate with Amazon FPS. This new functionality includes Reserve and Settle, Instant Payment Notification, Refund API, and more.
