EC2

From Amazon website:

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) is a web service that provides resizable compute capacity in the cloud. It is designed to make web-scale computing easier for developers. Amazon EC2’s simple web service interface allows you to obtain and configure capacity with minimal friction. It provides you with complete control of your computing resources and lets you run on Amazon’s proven computing environment. Amazon EC2 reduces the time required to obtain and boot new server instances to minutes, allowing you to quickly scale capacity, both up and down, as your computing requirements change. Amazon EC2 changes the economics of computing by allowing you to pay only for capacity that you actually use. Amazon EC2 provides developers the tools to build failure resilient applications and isolate themselves from common failure scenarios.

From AWS Blog: Amazon Multi-Factor Authentication for AWS Accounts

Posted Sat, 09/12/2009 - 07:11 by Cloud-Intelligence

Amazon Multi-Factor Authentication for AWS Accounts -

An additional layer of protection, once reserved for banks and large enterprises, is now available to protect your AWS account from unauthorized use. This should be especially attractive to our enterprise-level customers, but we expect customers of all types to value the additional security.

From AWS Blog: AWS Access Credential Rotation

Posted Sat, 09/12/2009 - 07:05 by Cloud-Intelligence

AWS Access Credential Rotation - Most security standards recommend changing access credentials (passwords, certificates, or keys) on a regular basis. However, until recently this has been a bit tricky with AWS applications – requesting a new Access Key ID or X.509 certificate immediately rendered the old one invalid.