An update to MySQL 5.5 Enterprise Edition is now available. MySQL Enterprise Edition is a comprehensive subscription offering that includes MySQL Database plus monitoring, backup and design tools, with 24×7, worldwide customer support.New in this release is the addition of MySQL Enterprise Backup and MySQL Workbench along with enhancements in MySQL Enterprise Monitor. Recent integration with [...]
AÂ load balancer distributes application loads between two or more EC2 instances. You can dynamically register or deregister EC2 instances from the load balancer as the capacity requirements of your application change with time.A load balancer is represented by a DNS name and a set of ports and provides the destination to which all requests intended [...]
To attach a volume to an instance Right-click a volume and click Attach Volume. The Attach Volume dialog box appears. Select the instance for the device from theInstances list box. Specify how to expose the volume to the instance in the Device field (/dev/sdb through /dev/sdz in Linux and xvdb through xvdh in Windows). For information about which [...]
Tags are metadata you can add to a volume. Each tag consists of a key and an optional value. Â Add tags to your volume to simplify the administration of your EC2 infrastructure. A form of metadata, tags consist of a case-sensitive key/value pair, are stored in the cloud and are private to your account. You [...]
A laptop prototype has been unveiled with a device that allows a user to control the computer by sight.The eye-tracking technology monitors the user’s gaze and works out where they’re looking on the computer screen and means, among other things, that users can play a game where they defeat enemies because the game’s lasers hit [...]
Microsoft’s Kinect has been named the fastest-selling tech gadget of all time after racking up sales of 10 million units since its launch in November. The unit is the first mass-produced device that allows for motion and voice control of a video game console without the need to hold any controller. Microsoft said the device’s [...]
Opera Software today launched the first beta of Opera Dragonfly. Opera Dragonfly is an open source suite of debugging tools for web developers and designers. When you download the Opera browser, Opera Dragonfly is built in and loads automatically from the Web. Opera Dragonfly covers the full debugging workflow, from inspecting network access and downloaded [...]
Amazon Elastic Block Storage (EBS) is a type of storage designed specifically for Amazon EC2 instances. Amazon EBS lets you create volumes that Amazon EC2 instances can mount as devices much like a standard hard drive. Amazon EBS volumes behave like raw, unformatted, external block devices. They have user-supplied device names and provide a block [...]
HP today announced that the energy-reduction goals made by the company in 2009 have been met or exceeded more than nine months ahead of schedule. HP also unveiled energy savings research and analysis showing that if all makes and models of printers, notebook and desktop PCs, displays and servers shipped in 2005 were recycled(1) and [...]
Mozilla Firefox 4 for Windows, Mac and Linux has exited the beta cycle and is now available as a release candidate in more than 70 languages. The millions of users testing Firefox 4 will be automatically updated to this version and will join our Mozilla QA team in validating the new features, enhanced performance and stability [...]
Elastic IP addresses are static IP addresses designed for dynamic cloud computing. Elastic IP addresses are associated with your account, not specific instances. Any elastic IP addresses that you associate with your account remain associated with your account until you explicitly release them. Unlike traditional static IP addresses, however, elastic IP addresses allow you to [...]
If an instance has an EBS root device, you can easily create an AMI from it. To create an image from an Amazon EBS-backed instance Right-click an instance that shows “ebs” in the Root Device field and click Create Image (EBS AMI). The Create Image dialog box appears. Enter a name for the image (required) and a description [...]
After an AMI is launched, the resulting running system is called an instance. By default, you can run up to 20 instances .Instances remain running unless they fail or you stop or terminate them. When this happens, the data on the instance (the “instance store” or “ephemeral store”) is no longer available. Also, by default AWS [...]
Here we are going to explain about  the  procedure to Connecting to Amazon AWS from Windows to a Linux AMI via putty or winscp. There are two ways by which you can connect, First is putty, the ssh connection and  the second is  Winscp. The first one will enable you to get the terminal and the second will [...]
Here we are going to explain about the installation and configuration of a server in EC2 (Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud). What is Amazon EC2 ? “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.” To use [...]