New Elastic Load Balancer Checks for Trusted Advisor
Amazon Web Services announced four new checks to the Trusted Advisor tool in the Management Console. The Trusted Advisor allows an administrator or IAM user with the correct permission to run a series of checks for security, economy and fault tolerance across a wide variety of resources within an AWS account. This latest set of checks focus on Elastic Load …
Microsoft Azure announces most powerful instances to date
Microsoft Azure has announced the general availability of their new G instances. These are their most powerful cloud instances to date. The new G-series instances go up to 32 cores, 448 GiB of RAM, and 6,596 GB of local SSD storage. At the lower end these G instances may be suitable for running Remote Desktop Session Hosts all the way …
Self-Healing Cloud Infrastructure
Yesterday AWS announced “Auto Recovery” for its Elastic Cloud Compute (Ec2) instances. Now with Cloud Watch properly configured AWS will constantly run systems checks to look for many common problems including: loss of network connectivity loss of system power software issues on the physical host hardware issues on the physical host. According to Amazon, “When a system status check of …