Yearly Archives: 2009

Announcing the AWS Toolkit for Eclipse

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“Dear Amazon EC2 Customer,

We are excited today to introduce the AWS Toolkit for Eclipse, a plug-in for the Eclipse Java IDE that makes it easier to develop, deploy, and debug Java applications on Amazon Web Services. With the AWS Toolkit for Eclipse, you’ll be able to get started faster and be more productive when building AWS applications. “

While working on Java terminal application(actually using Groovy and Typica API library), I receive this announcement message from Amazon. Checking it out immediately with my Eclipse Ganymede version 🙂

A screenshot after installation:

Announcing Amazon EC2 Reserved Instances

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“Reserved Instances are complementary to existing Amazon EC2 On-Demand Instances and give businesses even more flexibility to reduce computing costs. Because Reserved Instances function identically to existing Amazon EC2 On-Demand Instances, you can now plan for an anticipated amount of capacity using Reserved Instances and then instantly spin up On-Demand Instances if your compute needs exceed you reserved capacity. Of course, you can also choose to handle all of your capacity needs using only On-Demand instances or only Reserved Instances — it’s entirely up to you. Reserved Instances are available in 1-year or 3-year terms.”

—The Amazon Web Services Team

http://aws.typepad.com/aws/2009/03/announcing-ec2-reserved-instances.html
http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/

Really worth it for an on demand application.