This week Simon & Simone talks about the recent Amazon RDS - SQL Server Major Version Upgrade, Provisioned IOPS for EBS and additional EBS-optimized EC2 instance types.

This week Simon & Simone have a special discussion about how customers can get the most out of the AWS pricing model.

Startup weekend and AWS; Amazon RDS Scales Up, and Easier Access to Database Log Files; Amazon Linux AMI 2013.03 Release Candidate; Reserved Instance Price Reduction for Amazon EC2, AWS Free Usage Tier Now Includes Amazon ElastiCache, Lower prices for SQS and SNS, DynamoDB Price Reductions and Reserved Capacity.

This week Simon & Simone cover a raft of new product and feature releases including VPC, Cross-Region AMI Copy, Elastic Beanstalk support for Node.js, an iPhone Management app for AWS and a couple of new tools for Windows users.

This week in a special episode we discuss Migration of AWS Resources to a New Region with the Solution Architects who wrote the AWS Whitepaper covering this subject.

This week Simon & Simone discuss new locations and features for Amazon Simple WorkFlow (SWF), searching DynamoDB Data with Amazon CloudSearch and DynamoDB: Design for uniform data access.

This week Simon & Simone discuss the new Amazon Elastic Transcoder service. The AWS Import/Export service and a black-belt tip.

This week Simon & Simone discuss: Tablet and Android console support; AWS Detailed billing reports; Autoscale new EC2 status checks; Endpoint renaming for Amazon RDS; AWS RedShift; More support for Debian, FreeBSD & Centos.

This week Simon & Simone discuss the AWS Data Pipeline; Roles for Elastic MapReduce (EMR); root domain website hosting for Amazon S3; CloudFormation block device mapping; and last but not least, the new hs1.8xl instances for EMR.

This week Simon & Simone discuss a raft of new services for customers including EBS Snapshot Copy, updates to CloudSearch, updates to ElastiCache and new CloudFormation editing options.