How to Use the New CloudWatch User-Defined Metrics Feature With PHP
This blog post explains how to use the CloudWatch User-Defined metrics with an EC2 Micro instance, PHP, Emacs, the MySQL development package and the AWS SDK for PHP.
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Create an Elastic MapReduce Job
This video provices a step-by-step walkthrough showing how to build a simple Hadoop job using Amazon’s Elastic MapReduce service.
Amazon EC2 and Amazon RDS Service Disruption Report
After the recent service disruption, Amazon Web Services (AWS) posted a detailed explanation of what happened during this event and how they are going to do to prevent it to happen again.
Deploying Web Applications to the Cloud
Python makes it easy to develop web applications and Amazon Web Services (AWS) makes it easy to deploy scalable, fault tolerant applications. This tutorial focuses on taking a Django web application and deploying it to AWS through a series of hands on exercises using Amazon’s load balancing, auto scaling, content …
How to Customize an Amazon Elastic Beanstalk Instance
Wolfgang Schell explains the simple steps to customize Amazon Elastic Beanstalk AMI (Amazon Machine Image).
Building Reliable Production Applications with Amazon RDS
Learn how Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) makes it easier to run a reliable and scalable MySQL database in the cloud. This webinar describes how Amazon RDS offloads the basic administration of running a relational database, while offering enhanced functionality like Multi-AZ deployments, which offer more robust MySQL availability …