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Amazon expands Elastic Block Storage

Posted on March 24, 2015 by CloudThat | Comments(1)

As we know Elastic Block Store (EBS) is the block level storage that increases the durability and persistence of data for EC2 instances. It earlier provided storage size from 1GB up to 1TB.

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Shrinking An Amazon EBS Volume

Posted on January 19, 2015 by CloudThat | Comments(1)

Amazon’s Elastic Block Store Volumes are easy to use and expand but notoriously hard to shrink once their size has grown. Here are the steps for Shrinking any mounted EBS volume on EC2 Instances.

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Preparing for AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional Level Certification Exam

Posted on January 18, 2015 by CloudThat | Comments(2)

AWS recently announced their second Professional level certification exam that is little different from it’s previous professional level exam as the new one merges two certification tracks into one. Their Developer & SysOps Administrator exam at associate level converge into a single exam at professional level that is AWS Certified DevOps Engineer certification exam.

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Steps to convert UBUNTU-BASED PV instances to HVM

Posted on December 5, 2014 by CloudThat | Comments(9)

My previous blog will help you convert Rhel-based PV instances to HVM.

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Auto Attach Elastic IP to EC2 Classic Instance For Autoscaling

Posted on November 14, 2014 by CloudThat | Comments(4)

AWS has made it really simple to attach an Elastic IP to an EC2 instance. It is 4 Simple Steps using AWS console.

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Steps to convert RHEL-BASED PV instances to HVM

Posted on November 5, 2014 by CloudThat | Comments(2)

My previous blog will give you an idea as to why HVM instances in AWS are better than PV instances and why people prefer using HVM instances over PV instances. Moreover, the HVM instances offered by Amazon are cheaper than the PV ones. For example, PV m1.medium costs $0.087 per Hour whereas, HVM m3.medium costs $0.070 per Hour.

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Virtualization in Amazon Web Services

Posted on October 16, 2014 by CloudThat | Comments(4)

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instances are the central part of Amazon.com’s cloud computing platform, Amazon Web Services (AWS). An instance type determines the hardware of the host computer used. Each instance type offers different compute and memory capabilities.

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Introducing new AWS Feature: CloudWatch Logs

Posted on August 5, 2014 by CloudThat | Comments(2)

In the recently organized AWS Summit in New York, a new extension service to CloudWatch called CloudWatch Logs has been added to the AWS services catalog. Earlierly CloudWatch was only monitoring resource utilization so to monitor application level logs we have to opt for third party tools.

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MYSQL Data Migration Capabilities for RDS

Posted on May 30, 2014 by CloudThat | Comments(0)

RDS now has a provision to set a non RDS mysql instance (on premise or EC2) as its master and vice-versa.

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5 Reasons MongoDB is better than DynamoDB

Posted on May 30, 2014 by CloudThat | Comments(1)

With NoSQL databases leading the next generation data stores, MongoDB and DynamoDB are two very viable options for quite a number of usecases. While MongoDB is a open source document store database, DynamoDB is a managed key-value store which is offered as a service by Amazon.

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