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Amazon launches EC2 Container Registry for storing container images

Above: Amazon chief technology officer Werner Vogels announces the EC2 Container Registry at the AWS re:Invent conference in Las Vegas on Oct. 8. Amazon Web Services today announced the EC2 Container Registry, a new tool for storing container images for parts of...

Using Enhanced RDS Monitoring with Datadog

AWS recently announced enhanced monitoring for Amazon RDS instances running MySQL, MariaDB, and Aurora. Enhanced monitoring includes over 50 new CPU, memory, file system, and disk I/O metrics which can be collected on a per-instance basis as frequently as once per...

Amazon ECS turns Docker containers into the new VMs

Credit: Getty Images After Google went all-in on Docker with Container Engine, it was only a matter of time before Amazon took similar action. In Thursday's keynote speech at AWS Reinvent, Amazon unveiled the EC2 Container Service(ECS), currently available as a...

Amazon Aurora, a cheaper alternative to MySQL and PostgreSQL

Amazon Aurora is a MySQL-compatible relational database engine that combines the speed and availability of high-end commercial databases with the simplicity and cost-effectiveness of open source databases. Amazon Aurora provides up to five times better performance...

InMotion Hosting: Automatic remote backup service

We offer an automatic remote backup service on all servers for disaster recovery. These backups run every 24-36 hours for emergency purposes, and a data restoration can be requested in AMP. Backups overwrite previous backup data, so we strongly recommend maintaining...