Amazon released some new features for AWS:
Load Balancing — Enables you to automatically balance incoming requests and distribute traffic across multiple Amazon EC2 instances. You will be able to intelligently distribute load within or across Availability Zones, without worrying about load balancing hardware or software solutions.
Auto-scaling — Grows and shrinks usage of Amazon EC2 compute capacity based on application requirements, automatically managing usage of the AWS cloud on your behalf. The auto-scaling capability will monitor your pre-set capacity thresholds and automatically add or remove compute capacity based on your application usage, helping you optimize your use of resources.
Monitoring — Provides real-time monitoring of operational metrics within Amazon EC2, providing even better visibility into your usage of the AWS cloud. These metrics can be aggregated across multiple dimensions including Amazon EC2 instances, Availability Zones, and time slots. With this Monitoring service, you will be able to view your usage of the AWS cloud in much the same way that you can see operational metrics of your own hosted data center.
Management Console — Provides a simple, point-and-click web interface that lets you configure, manage and access your AWS cloud resources.
And that’s pretty much all they have on the page. Also some exciting news…you can now run a Windows server on EC2. So for all of you that want to figure out how the hell to do things on Windows without breaking your server, now you can.
But I think the best news is that now they have a Getting Started with ElasticFox Guide. Man I wish they had this like 2 months ago.