Bitnami blog - Posts for tag aws

• Alfresco for Teams Now Available on BitNami Cloud Hosting

  We have partnered with Alfresco to bring Alfresco Team, a platform for content sharing and collaboration, to the cloud! Alfresco Team is a powerful tool for teams that create content such as business documents, spreadsheets, presentations, designs, images, videos, and audio. Now that it is available in the BiNami Cloud Hosting library, you can deploy Alfresco Team to the cloud in minutes! Alfresco Team is a new version of the Alfresco Content System geared towards smaller teams. It contains much of the functionality of the enterprise version of the platform at a very affordable price - a free forever license ... Read more

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  Jul 21, 2011 / Tags: CMS, Wiki, Collaboration, Java, Version Control, Cloud, AWS

• Cloud Adoption Survey Results Released

  Together with Cloud.com and Zenoss, we co-sponsored a survey of over 500 IT professionals to determine the key IT objectives and inhibitors for cloud adoption. Unsurprisingly, the results show that there is an overwhelming amount of interest in cloud computing; 61% of organizations are either working on their cloud strategy or already have one approved. Another 20% have cloud implementations in place already and only 20% have no plans for cloud computing at this point. The survey results also answer some other important questions about the cloud: Why are companies moving to the cloud? According to the survey results, the ... Read more

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  Jun 14, 2011 / Tags: Cloud, AWS, GoGrid

• Fedora Now Available in BitNami Cloud Hosting!

  We're pleased to announce that we have added support for Fedora to BitNami Cloud Hosting. This means you can now choose to run your favorite open source applications in the cloud on either Ubuntu 10.04 or Fedora Linux 14 (32 and 64 bit versions of each are available). BitNami Cloud Hosting users will now see the Fedora options available in the 'Advanced' section of the 'Create a New Server' screen, as shown in the screenshot below. If you aren't yet using BitNami Cloud Hosting, sign up for a free trial to see how easy it can be to run open ... Read more

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  May 20, 2011 / Tags: Infrastructure, Cloud, AWS

• New PHP 5.3 AMP Stacks

  We’re happy to announce that all of the BitNami PHP-based development stacks have been updated to include PHP 5.3 support. This include both the MySQL-based and PostgreSQL-based stacks. In addition to an updated PHP version, we include the latest release of phpMyAdmin, PEAR components and related libraries, including the much requested mcrypt extension. Because the Stacks are available as native installers, virtual machine images and AMIs, you can develop on a local machine natively or in a virtual environment and then deploy the application to Amazon EC2 for testing and production. This is the list of components and versions included ... Read more

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  May 17, 2011 / Tags: PHP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Apache HTTP Server, Infrastructure, Databases, AWS

• BitNami Support for CloudWatch

  Amazon "announced today":http://aws.typepad.com/aws/2011/05/amazon-cloudwatch-user-defined-metrics.html support for custom metrics in their CloudWatch service. This means that in addition to the current existing metrics, like CPU or Disk I/O, it is possible to monitor additional services. The new metrics can be used together with all the existing CloudWatch functionality. In particular it is possible to scale up and down based on application-level metrics such as the number of simultaneous connections or the internal load of the database. We are glad to announce that we will be offering custom metrics for most services and applications bundled with our stacks, including Apache, MySQL, Tomcat and ... Read more

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  May 10, 2011 / Tags: Cloud, AWS

• BitNami acquires Amazon Web Services division

  BitNami Announced Today its acquisition of Amazon Web Services, the leading platform for public cloud computing. San Francisco, CA (PRWEB) April 1st, 2011 -- Leading online cloud vendor BitNami today announced it has acquired Amazon Web Services, a division of Amazon.com the world's leading online retailer. The acquisition brings together two companies who share a passion for serving customers and whose customers benefit from cultures of innovation and long term thinking. BitNami makes it easy for developers and solution providers to deploy and manage popular open source applications natively, virtually and in the cloud. It's flagship product, BitNami Cloud Hosting ... Read more

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  Apr 01, 2011 / Tags: e-Commerce, Cloud, AWS

• Great Demo of How to Deploy phpBB on AWS Cloud Formation using a BitNami Template

  We would like to send a special thanks to BitNami user Christian Riley for putting together a great demo of how to launch phpBB to EC2 using a BitNami CloudFormation template. As you'll see in the demo video, he is able to launch phpBB to EC2 in just a few minutes using CloudFormation. In addition to phpBB, all other PHP and Ruby on Rails-based BitNami-packaged applications are now available as CloudFormation templates. Enjoy! ... Read more

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  Mar 02, 2011 / Tags: PHP, Ruby on Rails, Cloud, AWS

• BitNami Images available for AWS Japan

  Today Amazon announced AWS Japan. What better way to celebrate that launching a few BitNami instances in the new region? All BitNami AMIs are now also available for AWS Japan. Just check in the cloud section for each one of our "stacks":http://bitnami.org/stacks for the exact AMI id or launch them directly from the Amazon console. This is another step in our commitment to making BitNami the easiest way to deploy and manage applications on Amazon EC2. While you are at it, you may want to check our "BitNami Templates for AWS Cloud formation":http://bitnami.org/article/aws-cloudformation-and-bitnami and "BitNami Cloud Hosting":http://bitnami.org/cloud ... Read more

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  Mar 02, 2011 / Tags: Cloud, AWS

• AWS CloudFormation and BitNami

  Amazon has recently released "AWS CloudFormation":http://aws.amazon.com/cloudformation/ , a new service that helps you describe a 'stack' of cloud resources and bring them up as a single unit. A CloudFormation stack can include among other resources load balancers, databases, EBS volumes and of course EC2 instances. A stack definition is called a template and can contain configuration information to be passed to the various resources being provisioned. At BitNami, we are pretty excited about CloudFormation and want to make it easy for you to incorporate BitNami stacks to your deployments. We have now CloudFormation templates for all PHP and Ruby on ... Read more

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  Mar 01, 2011 / Tags: PHP, Ruby on Rails, Apache HTTP Server, Cloud, AWS

• BitNami Cloud Hosting Now Available!

  After several months in private beta, we're excited to announce that BitNami Cloud Hosting is now available! BitNami Cloud Hosting simplifies the process of deploying and managing open source and other applications in the cloud. BitNami Cloud Hosting offers: One-click Application Deployment: Launch servers with one or more applications or development stacks from the BitNami library in one click. Currently available applications include: SugarCRM, Alfresco, JasperServer, Drupal, Wordpress and many others. You can view a list at: http://bitnami.org/cloud/apps Automatic Backups and One Click Server Restores: BitNami Cloud Hosting offers automated backups that can be scheduled to occur hourly, daily or ... Read more

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  Feb 07, 2011 / Tags: Apache HTTP Server, AWS, Blog, Bug Tracking, Business Intelligence, Cloud, CMS, Collaboration, CRM, e-Commerce, ECM, eLearning, Help Desk, Hosting, Infrastructure, Java, MySQL, Photo Sharing, PHP, Planning, Portal Server, Project Management, Ruby on Rails, Wiki

• How to Migrate Your Wordpress Blog to Amazon EC2

  We would like to thank BitNami user @mmarschall for putting together a great tutorial on migrating your WordPress blog to a BitNami EC2 (Amazon Cloud) image. If you're interested in running your WordPress blog or other open source applications on the Amazon EC2 Cloud, sign up for the (free) beta for BitNami Cloud Hosting. ... Read more

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  Jan 20, 2011 / Tags: Blog, Cloud, AWS

• BitNami AMP and APP Stacks Updated - Amazon AWS PHP SDK Now Included

  We're pleased to announce that the BitNami AMP and APP Stacks have just been updated to include the Amazon Web Services (AWS) PHP SDK as well as updated versions of Apache and PostgreSQL (where appropriate). As the Amazon website explains it, "The AWS SDK for PHP makes it easier for developers to build applications that tap into the cost-effective, scalable, and reliable AWS cloud. Using the SDK, developers can build solutions for Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), Amazon SimpleDB, and more. " By including the Amazon PHP SDK in our Apache + MySQL ... Read more

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  Oct 08, 2010 / Tags: PHP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Apache HTTP Server, Infrastructure, Hosting, Cloud, AWS

• BitNami Stacks Now Available as EBS Images - Get Data Persistence and Create Snapshots

  We're very pleased to announce the release of virtually all of the BitNami Stacks as Amazon EBS images! Unlike standard AMIs, EBS volumes offer data persistence and the ability to create snapshots. This means that you can start and stop servers without losing your data. If your instance goes down for any reason, you will not lose any data either, as the EBS volumes are separate from AMI instances. You simply launch a new instance from the same EBS volume. With Amazon EBS, you can also use Amazon's snapshot feature to save a 'snapshot' of an EBS volume at a ... Read more

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  Sep 16, 2010 / Tags: Cloud, AWS