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Nov-Dec 2010 Top Features of Amazon AWS

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S3 Object Size Limit Now 5TB
Now object can be 5TB instead of 5Gb. Split the files and upload them using Multipart Upload API as posted here. I will always remember how to use AWS import and lxsplit for big data files.

AWS Mobile SDK
For mobile developers, check-out AWS Mobile SDK.

Amazon Route 53
This service is called Amazon Route 53 because of the port DNS is using. See it here. Hmm.. I suppose we can now run internal DNS without using LDAP and OpenDNS. 🙂

Free Basic Monitoring for Amazon EC2, from Amazon CloudWatch
Free basic monitoring of EC2 instances nice! Hope more free to come.

Free Servers using Amazon EC2
Free Servers! Unfortunately for AWS Newbies! What would you say if your using AWS since its early days? 🙂

Amazon RDS now with Read Replica

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The most awaited feature of RDS for DB replication.

“We are excited to announce the release of Read Replicas, a new feature that makes it even easier to scale MySQL database deployments to meet the performance demands of high-traffic web applications. You can now create one or more replicas of a given source DB Instance and serve incoming read traffic from multiple copies of your data. This new database deployment option enables you to elastically scale out beyond the capacity of a single DB Instance for read-heavy database workloads. In conjunction with the release of Read Replicas, we are also announcing lower prices for High Memory DB Instance classes.” –Amazon

I’m getting ready to scale DB read access using RDS. 😉