Amazon EC2, the cloud computing platform-as-a-service pioneer, is adding four new features designed to help administrators manage larger deployments. The four features are resource tagging; resource filtering; user-specified RSA keys; indempotent instance launching. Here’s the scoop.
Those new features, in order, as per the Amazon Web Services blog post:
- Resource tagging enables administrators to set user-friendly names and enhance “searchability” for your cloud infrastructure in the metadata.
- Resource filtering is what it sounds like: set your criteria – like which instances are running in which Availability Zone – and get better visibility into your cloud.
- Setting your own RSA keys (as opposed to using the AWS-provided ones) gives users full control over their private keys. It has the pleasant side-effect of allowing for the use of the same key across regions, simplifying login and management.
- Indempotent instance launching is a simple concept with big utility: in the case of timeout or connection error, it won’t launch more instances than you initially intended, saving time and money.
Amazon Web Services is notorious for rapid-fire releasing iterative features, so it’s no surprise these came in a batch.
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Tags: Amazon | Amazon EC2 | Amazon Web Services | Availability Zone | Cloud | Cloud computing | cloud instance | indempotent | metadata | metadata tag | PaaS | Platform as a Service | RSA Key
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