New EC2 Features: Tagging, Idempotency, Filtering, Bring Your Own Keys

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by jeffbarr • 16 years ago

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necrecious• 16 years ago

Idempotency and tagging are the big ones for me. Makes automating instance operations easier.

pierrefar• 16 years ago

With all these improvements in the various bits of AWS, I keep wondering why Cloudfront is not getting a much-requested feature: gzip compression for files that can be when the browser accepts gzip. I know I'm not the only one asking/waiting for this, and the current solutions are very convoluted.

carson• 16 years ago

Another feature that would be nice for Cloudfront is being able to back it with a non-s3 resource.

jeffbarr4• 16 years ago

These are common requests, but I will pass them along to the team anyway to guide our prioritization process.

wouterinho2• 16 years ago

Good stuff, I think tagging was long overdue. Hopfully they will release IAM (http://aws.amazon.com/iam) to the public soon as well.

jeffbarr4• 16 years ago

You can use the IAM command line and APIs right now.

wouterinho2• 16 years ago

Sorry, I meant the IAM Management Console. Any chance this will be released soon?

moe• 16 years ago

Wow, finally!

Tagging was long overdue.

I hope the sigh of relief going through the ranks of AWS users will be heard at Amazon HQ and motivates them to no longer hold back such trivial yet essential features for years. Automating EC2 infrastructure has just become so much easier. No more futzing with and abusing of security groups - Thank you!

New EC2 Features: Tagging, Idempotency, Filtering, Bring Your Own Keys

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