Screencast: Amazon Elastic Beanstalk Eclipse Plugin – Deploying Your...
This screencast shows how the Amazon Elastic Beanstalk plugin for Eclipse allows developers to directly deploy their Java Web Applications from within Eclipse to their Elastic Beanstalk account. The...
View ArticleGartner: Private clouds are a last resort
Enterprises should consider public cloud services first and turn to private clouds only if the public cloud fails to meet their needs. That was the advice delivered by analyst Daryl Plummer during...
View ArticleTop 10 Strategic Technologies For 2012
Cloud is a disruptive force and has the potential for broad long-term impact in most industries. While the market remains in its early stages in 2011 and 2012, it will see the full range of large...
View ArticleDead-Simple Deployment: Headache-Free Java Web Applications in the Cloud...
This is the full presentation I gave at JavaOne 2011 in San Francisco on October 6th, including screencast versions of all demonstrations. Abstract The cloud has promised a lot to Java Web developers...
View ArticleAmazon SQS New Features: Delay Queues, Message Timers and Batch APIs
In an email to customers today, Amazon announced new feature additions to its Simple Queue Service (SQS). From the email: We are excited to announce three new Amazon SQS features today: delay queues,...
View ArticleDegraded Amazon EC2 Instance
I received an email from Amazon today that I have never seen before. Here it is in its entirety: Hello, We have noticed that one or more of your instances is running on a host degraded due to hardware...
View ArticleAmazon Announces Management Console for Simple Email Service (SES)
In an email to customers today, Amazon announced a new addition to their web-based Management Console tool – the ability to manage Simple Email Service (SES) resources. Previously customers needed to...
View ArticleAmazon SNS Introduces SMS Text Message Notifications
This week Amazon announced improvements to the Simple Notification Service (SNS). The new features integrate SMS messaging (ie. the ubiquitous text messaging system found on your mobile phone). With...
View ArticleSpeaking At November OCJUG Meeting
Just a reminder that I will be speaking at the November meeting of the Orange Country Java Users Group (OCJUG) this Thursday (the 10th). This presentation will be a variation of the presentation I did...
View ArticleAmazon Announces AWS Storage Gateway
Today in an email to existing AWS customers, Amazon introduced a service known as AWS Storage Gateway which is an on-premise software appliance allowing customers to easily transfer data from...
View ArticleAmazon Web Services Blog: Save The Date! AWS re: Invent – Global Customer and...
Block off November 27-29 on your calendar, book a flight to Las Vegas, and plan to spend three days at AWS re: Invent learning more about AWS from AWS engineers, architects, partners, and customers in...
View ArticleCloud is a corporate strategy, not a tactical solution
Many of us are looking at the adoption of cloud as just another technology, and are leaving the decisions on how to adopt, own, and manage the cloud up to engineers. But acquiring a cloud management...
View ArticleFree Webinar – Amazon Web Services for Java Developers
I will be giving a free 1-hour Webinar this coming Thursday (June 7th) to introduce a brand new course that I will be teaching at the University of California in the Summer quarter. The new course is...
View ArticleA big thanks to the AWS in Education team!
My new course at the University of California, Irvine (UCI) begins in late July and there is an informational Webinar tomorrow (June 7th) for those that are interested in finding out more. Details of...
View ArticleAmazon Web Services for Java Developers – JavaOne Presentation Accepted
I received notification this week that my submission for this year’s JavaOne conference in San Francisco was accepted. The presentation will feed out of the UCI course that will be completed by then....
View ArticleUCI Webinar – Amazon Web Services for Developers (YouTube)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MbXCh9aqzmQ Tags: amazon, aws, Cloud Computing, Enterprise Java, uci
View ArticleAmazon Announces First Data Center in Australia
The speed of the backbone between Australia and the US can sometimes make you wonder if there are not just two guys on either end of a tin can phone screaming one one zero one zero endlessly to each...
View ArticleLast Chance To Sign Up for Online Amazon Web Services for Java Developers Course
This is your last chance to sign up for the Amazon Web Services for Java Developers course that I will be teaching for the University of California, Irvine starting next Monday. The class is 100%...
View ArticleOnline Java Web Services Class Starts Again October 1st
I will once again be teaching my Java Web Services class for the University of California starting October 1st. The class is 100% online and can be completed from anywhere in the world that has an...
View ArticleNew High-Performance Provisioned IOPS Storage for Amazon RDS
Today AWS announced that it is extending the provisioned IOPS concept already available for EBS volumes to RDS instances. So just like with EBS volumes you can now not only provision the storage size...
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