Several years ago, Shine launched its first AWS EC2 instance. We quickly discovered that the main difference with using AWS wasn't the obvious cost and uptime improvements. What we realised instead was that AWS would change the way we would approach the development and deployment life...
I was lucky enough to be one of the 6,000 cloud geeks that descended on Vegas last week to attend AWS re:Invent 2012. This inaugural AWS developer conference was broken into 3 days. The first day was a bit of a warm-up day, with technical workshops and a AWS partner day. The two subsequent days had keynotes and deep-dive sessions covering all elements of the AWS ecosystem. In this post I'll cover what I saw during the three days I was there, and what had the biggest impact on me.
Shine Technologies are big fans of AWS. We are even a Consulting Partner. So it is with great pleasure that we are now able to use a local region - the Asia Pacific Region that was announced today. To show our commitment we have moved our existing...
Amazon recently announced a new feature for AWS RDS databases called Provisioned IOPS. In short, this feature is designed to reliably guarantee the amount of I/O operations per second for your RDS instance. Prior to its public release, Shine Technologies was able to work with the Amazon RDS team to give this new feature a test-run with one of our products.
After some initial tweaking, the results were ultimately very rewarding. In this post I'll talk about the product we tested against, what performance gains we achieved with Provisioned IOPS, and how we got there.