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November 13, 2012

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AWS has landed Down Under!

Today I attended the Amazon Web Services Customer Appreciation Day http://aws.amazon.com/apac/cad-anz/ , where the VP of AWS announced the launch of the new Sydney region.

There was a big audience (I’m guessing over 1000) listening to the keynotes and client testimonials and taking part in breakout sessions covering many of the services AWS provides.

The launch of a region in Australia is great news for Australian business, which now has access to AWS services with a fantastic latency. I ran some tests and got an average of 5ms (compared to approx 110ms with the previously closest region, Singapore).  In other words, the average time for servers to respond to information requests has been speeded up more than 20 times!

What’s even better news is that the prices are (almost) the same as the Singapore region.

I foresee lots of businesses soon taking advantage of the new AWS Sydney.

Contact me if you need help to get your infrastructure onto AWS.

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October 18, 2012

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AWS micro instance in a VPC

Amazon Web Services have finally announced the availability of the ec2 micro instance running inside a Virtual Private Cloud (VPC).

This enables users to take advantage of the AWS free usage tier inside a VPC (you can run a micro instance 24/365 for your first year for free!).

The micro instance is a limited resources server (613mb memory and up to 2 EC2 cores) but it’s great for some non production servers, such as admin servers which don’t use too many resources.
It’s also suitable to use as development servers.

Remember that an ec2 instance type can be upgraded from micro to a more powerful instance type any time.

Personally I run my Puppet master and Approx package caching on micro ec2 instances.