In this episode we have a "Glacier Special", as this new service warrants its very own podcast. Simon & Simone talk about how Glacier solves many challenges typical of the Cold Storage space; pricing and technical details.

In this episode, Simon & Simone cover the MFA-Protected API access, a way to authenticate every API call made to AWS; then the monitoring service CloudWatch, with the possibility to push custom metrics to it, and ways to take advantage of monitoring your applications.

A quick introduction to DynamoDB, followed by details on how Provisioned Output works. After that, Simon & Simone discuss the possibility to explore or alter tables using the AWS Management console. To close, an overview of the SQS service, how it works, how to architect to take advantage of it.

Simon & Simone discuss the recently launched Provisioned IOPS for EBS volumes, plus the EBS-optimized EC2 instances. Both things allow to significantly improve the I/O performance of applications running on Amazon EC2.

Simon & Simone are back again for this special episode where we will look at some of the key information resources available on the AWS website, on topics such as Architecture, Economics, and Security. Customers can take advantage of these resources when exploring the use of AWS in their business.

Second episode for the week! Feedback suggested to cover Amazon SES in more details, and here it is! Easy DKIM, SNS Feedback, Domain Verification, and what to do when you encounter the "Address blacklisted" error. If you need to send emails, this episode is definitively worth checking.

Our usual hosts, Simon & Simone, discuss the new I/O instance type available on Amazon EC2, the Elastic MapReduce service, and as a black belt tip, how to attach a volume at runtime to your EC2 instances.

In this episode, Simon & Simone discusses Simple Email Service, ElastiCache, and a "black belt" tip on creating EBS snapshots and subsequently creating volumes from EBS snapshots.

In this episode, Simon & Simone discusses Elastic Beanstalk, Direct Connect, and a "black belt" tip on using Amazon Elastic MapReduce with DynamoDB.

In this episode, Simon & Simone discuss the newly announced MFA-Protected API Access, using Multiple IP Addresses for EC2 Instances (in VPC), and a "black belt" tip on scalable session handling in PHP using Amazon DynamoDB.