Developers and businesses can now automate the creation and
provisioning of their AWS infrastructure resources
SEATTLE, Feb 25, 2011 (BUSINESS WIRE) --
Amazon Web Services LLC, (AWS) an Amazon.com company (NASDAQ: AMZN),
today announced AWS CloudFormation, a simple way for developers and
businesses to create collections of related AWS resources and provision
them in an orderly and predictable fashion. Customers can use AWS
CloudFormation's sample templates or create their own templates to
describe the AWS resources required to run their application. AWS
CloudFormation then manages the complexity of provisioning those
resources in the required order so developers don't have to worry about
sequencing or interdependencies. AWS CloudFormation is available at no
additional charge - customers pay only for the AWS resources required to
run their applications. To get started using AWS CloudFormation, visit http://aws.amazon.com.
With AWS CloudFormation, customers describe "what" resources are needed
and AWS CloudFormation takes care of "how" those resources are
provisioned. For example, AWS CloudFormation templates concisely capture
resource relationships, such as Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon
EC2) instances that must be associated with an Elastic Load Balancer, or
an Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) volume that must be in the
same Availability Zone as the Amazon EC2 instance. These templates free
developers from having to think about and navigate these types of
interdependencies. In addition, customers can use AWS CloudFormation
templates to create identical copies of the same AWS infrastructure
stack that will run over and over as needed, removing the need for
developers to manually recreate an application's stack for each
deployment.
"The idea for AWS CloudFormation came to us while we were building our
own applications on top of AWS services. Rather than repeatedly building
the same infrastructure and manually managing the dependencies between
resources each time, our developer teams started creating templates to
seamlessly handle the provisioning. We found this to be so useful that
we decided to offer it up to our customers," said Adam Selipsky, Vice
President, Amazon Web Services. "AWS CloudFormation allows developers
and businesses to focus on their applications while leaving the
provisioning details to AWS."
Customers can create CloudFormation templates and deploy the associated
resource stacks via the AWS Management Console, CloudFormation command
line tools or APIs. AWS CloudFormation can be used across multiple AWS
Availability Zones to configure a wide range of AWS resources including
Amazon EC2 instances, Elastic Load Balancers, AWS Elastic Beanstalk
environments, Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) instances
and Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) topics.
EA2D is a new studio within Electronic Arts that is building blockbuster
and cross-platform social games. "For the release of Dragon Age Legends,
EA2D uses highly automated and dynamic infrastructure running on AWS.
While this allows us to scale seamlessly, provisioning new environments
is still a manual process," said Mike Babineau, Systems Architect,
EA2D. "AWS CloudFormation eliminates the manual processes and allows our
developers to fire up infrastructure stacks at will. We can now use a
single command to launch a duplicate of our production environment,
which is perfect for feature development, load tests, or hotfixes."
Ylastic provides a unified management console service to AWS customers.
"We are really excited about AWS Cloud Formation," said Prabhakar
Chaganti, CTO of Ylastic. "We have integrated management for AWS
CloudFormation into Ylastic services and are releasing it today. This
new service simplifies the deployment of resources and makes it easier
to build a wide range of cloud-enabled enterprise and business
applications."
About Amazon.com
Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN), a Fortune 500 company based in Seattle,
opened on the World Wide Web in July 1995 and today offers Earth's
Biggest Selection. Amazon.com, Inc. seeks to be Earth's most
customer-centric company, where customers can find and discover anything
they might want to buy online, and endeavors to offer its customers the
lowest possible prices. Amazon.com and other sellers offer millions of
unique new, refurbished and used items in categories such as Books;
Movies, Music & Games; Digital Downloads; Electronics & Computers; Home
& Garden; Toys, Kids & Baby; Grocery; Apparel, Shoes & Jewelry; Health &
Beauty; Sports & Outdoors; and Tools, Auto & Industrial. Amazon Web
Services provides Amazon's developer customers with access to
in-the-cloud infrastructure services based on Amazon's own back-end
technology platform, which developers can use to enable virtually any
type of business. Kindle, Kindle 3G and Kindle DX are the revolutionary
portable readers that wirelessly download books, magazines, newspapers,
blogs and personal documents to a crisp, high-resolution electronic ink
display that looks and reads like real paper. Kindle 3G and Kindle DX
utilize the same 3G wireless technology as advanced cell phones, so
users never need to hunt for a Wi-Fi hotspot. Kindle is the #1
bestselling product across the millions of items sold on Amazon. Amazon
and its affiliates operate websites, including www.amazon.com,
www.amazon.co.uk,
www.amazon.de,
www.amazon.co.jp,
www.amazon.fr,
www.amazon.ca,
www.amazon.cn,
and www.amazon.it.
As used herein, "Amazon.com," "we," "our" and similar terms include
Amazon.com, Inc., and its subsidiaries, unless the context indicates
otherwise.
Forward-Looking Statements
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of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933 and Section 21E of the
Securities Exchange Act of 1934. Actual results may differ significantly
from management's expectations. These forward-looking statements involve
risks and uncertainties that include, among others, risks related to
competition, management of growth, new products, services and
technologies, potential fluctuations in operating results, international
expansion, outcomes of legal proceedings and claims, fulfillment center
optimization, seasonality, commercial agreements, acquisitions and
strategic transactions, foreign exchange rates, system interruption,
inventory, government regulation and taxation, payments and fraud. More
information about factors that potentially could affect Amazon.com's
financial results is included in Amazon.com's filings with the
Securities and Exchange Commission, including its most recent Annual
Report on Form 10-K and subsequent filings.
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