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New Route 53 and ELB features: IPv6, Zone Apex, WRR and more.

All Things Distributed

New Route 53 and ELB features: IPv6, Zone Apex, WRR and more. Elastic Load Balancing now provides support for EC2 Security Groups such that customers that hosts their Internet accessible application instances behind ELB can build security rules that for example restrict traffic to only the ELB instances that front them. Comments ().

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Driving down the cost of Big-Data analytics - All Things Distributed

All Things Distributed

Driving down the cost of Big-Data analytics. The Amazon Elastic MapReduce (EMR) team announced today the ability to seamlessly use Amazon EC2 Spot Instances with their service, significantly driving down the cost of data analytics in the cloud. If the current Spot Price is below the bid price, the Instance Group will launch.

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Fountainhead: My Cloudy Nerdy Playlist for 2012

Fountainhead

But I thought it might be fun to collate a playlist that specifically appeals to the techie/cloudy group. Freakin brilliant tribute to IPv6. Big Data. (6). Data Center efficiency. (1). Burton Group blog. Data Center Design. Political movements have their anthems. So here goes. Songs about Clouds.

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Expanding the Cloud - Introducing Amazon ElastiCache - All Things.

All Things Distributed

Access to the Cache Cluster is controlled using Cache Security Groups giving customers full control over which application components can access which Cache Cluster. Driving down the cost of Big-Data analytics. New Route 53 and ELB features: IPv6, Zone Apex, WRR and more. No Server Required - Jekyll & Amazon S3.

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APAC Summer Tour - All Things Distributed

All Things Distributed

July 12 - Melbourne , where David Harrison of Freelancer.com and James Wilson of the REA Group will join us. Driving down the cost of Big-Data analytics. New Route 53 and ELB features: IPv6, Zone Apex, WRR and more. No Server Required - Jekyll & Amazon S3. Expanding the Cloud - The AWS GovCloud (US) Region.

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Expanding the Cloud - Cluster Compute Instances for Amazon EC2.

All Things Distributed

Cluster Compute Instances can be grouped as cluster using a "cluster placement group" to indicate that these are instances that require low-latency, high bandwidth communication. Driving down the cost of Big-Data analytics. New Route 53 and ELB features: IPv6, Zone Apex, WRR and more. APAC Summer Tour.

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Expanding the Cloud - Amazon EC2 Spot Instances - All Things.

All Things Distributed

Launch Groups and specifying Availability Zones : Customers can request a cluster of instances to always launch and terminate simultaneously by specifying a Launch Group. Driving down the cost of Big-Data analytics. New Route 53 and ELB features: IPv6, Zone Apex, WRR and more. Spot Instances - Increased Control.

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