Drop by and Visit the Bitnami Team at AWS re:Invent 2015!

Our team is incredibly excited to sponsor the AWS re:Invent 2015! For those of you unfamiliar with the event, AWS re:invent started in 2012 as a way to bring together AWS customers and partners to collaborate and learn about new cloud computing strategies in a series of hands-on workshops, sessions and technical deep-dives. Amazon has been a valuable partner of Bitnami for many years starting with the launch of Bitnami Cloud Hosting in 2011.

Members of our team (from our software engineers to our marketing reps) will represent Bitnami in the Expo Hall (booth 533) in The Venetian this week in Las Vegas. Drop by to discuss anything and everything cloud hosting and, of course, grab some free swag.

We love hearing from our users, so find us this week and meet the team!

Meet Bitnami at AWS re:Invent 2014

After a great show last year, we are excited to be sponsoring this year's AWS re:Invent conference in Las Vegas from Novemeber 11th to November 14th. Our team can't wait to share why so many AWS users choose Bitnami to power over 10 million hours of AWS usage every month!

This event is sold out, so come to our booth (#325) early to grab one of our popular Bitnami shirts before they are all gone.

This year, we will also be participating in the AWS re:Invent Partner Passport event. Meet up with Bitnami and our partners, TIBCO Jaspersoft, MongoLab, NuoDB, and MapR. Stop by our booths for a chance to win prizes, and meet up for a drink at the pub crawl at Zeffirino's, free to AWS re:Invent attendees.

Don't wait until the conference to try Bitnami. Check out Bitnami Cloud Hosting for the easiest way to deploy sever apps to the Amazon Web Services cloud!

Bitnami Supports New Amazon Cloud Region in Germany

Amazon just announced the addition of another region for the Amazon Cloud. This new region, eu-central-1, is located in Germany! We have been working closely with Amazon previous to the launch and we are excited to announce that all of the applications on the Bitnami Library are available immediately for this new region. You can find the new AMIs in the Amazon catalog as well as in the cloud tab for each one of the apps in the Bitnami web site.

Support for the eu-central-1 region is also in the works for Bitnami Cloud Hosting and will be released shortly. Bitnami Cloud Hosting is a service that simplifies the process of deploying and managing the Bitnami library of applications and development environments in the cloud. It offers dynamic deployments, automatic backups, monitoring and other features that make it easier to run applications in the cloud. Check it out!

Wordpress 4.0 available on Bitnami

WordPress, the overwhelmingly popular open source CMS project, has just released version 4.0. This version is known as "Benny" in honor of jazz clarinetist and bandleader Benny Goodman, and for good reason.  This new update brings the user an all-around smoother writing and management experience like the jazz music Benny created. This new version also includes many bug-fixes, which you can view here. We are happy to announce that WordPress 4.0 is now available on Bitnami! Check out our Bitnami WordPress Installers, Amazon EC2 AMIs, Azure Cloud Images and virtual machines.

Migrating your WordPress instance has never been so easy!

With this Bitnami WordPress release, we have also included a new pre-installed plugin that will help you to migrate your WordPress instance in a few clicks: All-in-one WP Migration.

With no more than three clicks, this tool allows you to do a clean, fast and safe migration to your new Bitnami WordPress installation. To learn how to install and use this tool, we have created a how-to guide on our wiki. If you run into any issues during your migration process, the Bitnami community will be happy to help.

If you want to get a hosted WordPress instance, check out Bitnami Cloud Hosting, which allows you to deploy and manage WordPress in the cloud in just a few clicks. In addition to one-click deployment, it offers built-in monitoring, automatic backups, 1 click resizing and more.

Upgraded Ruby 2.0 in the Ubuntu Bitnami Cloud Hosting base images

We recently released a new version of the our Ubuntu base image, rev 31. This version includes Ruby 2.0.0-p481, which will allow you to deploy the most recent version of Ruby applications like Redmine, Discourse and others.

The Ubuntu Bitnami Cloud Hosting servers are not only great for deploying Bitnami applications, but are also ideal for deploying your own applications. The fact that you can find recent versions of Apache, MySQL, PHP, Ruby, and many more, plus include tools like subversion or Git, makes it that much easier. Together with Ruby we have upgraded other major components like Apache HTTP Server, MySQL, MongoDB, PHP and Redis. You can find the full list of components included in this version, here.

Apart from one click deployment, Bitnami Cloud Hosting makes easier to manage your servers providing automated backups and one click restoring, scheduled tasks, cloning of servers and monitoring. You can learn more about all these great features on our website, and don't hesitate to contact us at sales [at] bitnami [dot] com with any question you may have! 

New HVM Amazon instances now available in Bitnami Cloud Hosting and more!

A few weeks ago we announced that Amazon released a new type of cloud servers, the T2 instance family. T2 servers use Hardware-assisted Virtualization (HVM) and provide great price/performance value for common scenarios. We updated our cloud images right away, allowing you to launch T2-powered Bitnami apps directly from the AWS console.

Today we are happy to announce that we have added HVM virtualization to Bitnami Cloud Hosting, and now you can launch servers based on the T2 and R3 instance types.

We have also added support in Bitnami Cloud Hosting to the latest versions of Ubuntu (14.04 LTS) and Amazon Linux (2013.03.2), so you can get the most out of the new instance types.

Steps to create an HVM instance in Bitnami Cloud Hosting:  

When you create a new server, you can now choose the virtualization type (HVM or Paravirtual) in the operating system selector.

Once you have selected an HVM based operating system, you will see the new instance types T2 and R3.

It's that easy!

Bitnami Cloud Hosting updated with latest Amazon Linux AMI

At Bitnami, we work hard to keep all of our applications, operating systems and components up-to-date with the most recent, stable versions. Which is why we’re happy to announce that we have released updated base images with Amazon Linux AMI 2014.03 in Bitnami Cloud Hosting.

Amazon Linux is a distribution of Linux optimized for the Amazon Cloud that is binary compatible with RHEL and CentOS. We offer the native Amazon Linux stack for deploying the Bitnami applications. This means that it is installed on top of the MySQL, Apache, and other components that come bundled with the operating system, allowing you to make use of the OS tools to keep your server up to date.

We also offer RHEL and Ubuntu OS options.

Spin up servers with ease 

Bitnami was founded to take the pain out of application and server configuration — whether it’s a native installation, as a virtual machine, or in the cloud. Spinning servers up in the cloud is as easy as a few mouse clicks. You can use Bitnami Cloud Hosting — our cloud management console for AWS — and spin up and unlimited number of cloud servers in minutes. What’s more, you can also select from nearly 100 packaged open source applications to add to your servers.

When you create a cloud new server, you can configure it with the application servers, database servers, frameworks and operating systems of your choice.

Click “Launch” and your server will be configured in minutes. Easy and done. Try Bitnami Cloud Hosting free to see how easy it is.

MongoDB available in Bitnami Cloud Hosting

We are happy to announce that we have recently added support for MongoDB in our Bitnami Cloud Hosting platform. Our latest Ubuntu 12.04 base image includes the MongoDB 2.4.9 version. Other Bitnami base stack components have also been upgraded. The complete changelog is available in our wiki page.

If you want to launch a MongoDB machine in Bitnami Cloud Hosting, you will need to select it in the "Development Options" section as shown at the screenshot below.

You can now launch the machine. Once the machine is up and running, you are able to connect there via SSH and access your MongoDB instance.

For security reasons we do not make the MongoDB service available remotely by default. It is only available for local web apps. You can find more information about MongoDB and remote access in our documentation:

- How to connect to the Bitnami Cloud Hosting machine via SSH

- wiki.bitnami.com/Components/Mongodb

Please note that "installdir", the name often used in our documentation, stands for the Bitnami stack location directory, and it is the '/opt/bitnami' directory in case of Bitnami Cloud Hosting machines. It means that the MongoDB files are located in the /opt/bitnami/mongodb directory.

If you are interested in creating a sample application, you may take a look at one of our previous blog posts in which we introduced the Bitnami MEAN stack: MEAN stack for BitNami: MongoDB, Express, AngularJS & NodeJS.

When you select MongoDB in the development options, we also include the RockMongo web application in your Bitnami Cloud Hosting machines by default. This application is for MongoDB the same what phpMyAdmin is for MySQL, and makes it easy to manage your MongoDB instance using the GUI web console. For security reasons, you need to create an encrypted SSH tunnel to be able to access it remotely, and we explain in detail how to do it in this wiki article.

One interesting use case is how to access your MongoDB database remotely. Sometimes you want to develop your application locally and have access to your remote MongoDB. We do not make MongoDB available remotely by default in Bitnami Cloud Hosting. The MongoDB is running on port 27017 but it is attached to the 127.0.0.1 interface so you can only access it from localhost, inside of the cloud machine. If you want to connect to MongoDB from the external machine, first you will need to change the MongoDB config file /opt/bitnami/mongodb/mongodb.conf

and comment out the bind_ip line as shown below

/opt/bitnami/mongodb/mongodb.conf

# bind_ip = 127.0.0.1

port = 27017

Restart the MongoDB service executing the following command to apply the config changes:

$ sudo /opt/bitnami/ctlscript.sh restart mongodb

Finally, you need to open the port 27017. We highly recommend to limit an access to the port only to your IP address, as it has been shown below. Please also learn more at this page:

Once it is done, you can connect to your MongoDB from your local machine:

$ mongo admin --host bitnami-demo-mongodb.bitnamiapp.com:27017 -u root -p

Enter password:

connecting to: bitnami-demo-mongodb.bitnamiapp.com:27017/admin

>

More info:

• How to connect to your server with SSH
• How to open an additional server port in Bitnami Cloud Hosting
• Bitnami MongoDB stack documentation
• About the RockMongo administration tool 
• Learn more about the Bitnami MEAN stack

Free Bitnami Cloud Hosting for AWS Activate Participants

If you're a startup and you're thinking about AWS, then consider signing onto Activate, a program AWS created for small companies. For Activate participants, Amazon provides resources, forums, education, and even credits towards using AWS services.

As the largest provider of Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) in the world and, we're happy to announce today support the Activate program with our own special offer: free Bitnami Cloud Hosting.

• AWS Startup Pack members in the Self-Starter tier get 3 months free 
• AWS Startup Pack members in the Portfolio tier get 6 months free 

Bitnami Cloud Hosting greatly simplifies AWS server management and offers powerful features such as automatic backups, cloning, monitoring, notifications, and more. From the Bitnami Cloud Hosting dashboard, you can launch the 80+ Bitnami images from the AWS Marketplace, or even just spin up an Amazon server and add your own components.

To learn more, visit the AWS Activate home page, then look under Special Offers to find Bitnami Cloud Hosting or read the AWS blog. Our service is completely free to try and, even if users discontinue using Bitnami Cloud Hosting, their servers at AWS keep running normally.

Your Amazon Storage Costs May Have Dropped 50%

Amazon announced today that prices for their S3 standard and Reduced Redundancy Storage (RRS) have dropped at every tier by up to 22% in some regions, and EBS pricing has dropped by a whopping 50%. The price drop puts added pressure on competitors who are trying to keep up with Amazon's low-margin business strategy. 

Where Amazon S3 provides unlimited storage, EBS (or Elastic Block Store) provides high performance compute power with ease of scalability. New S3 pricing can save companies a bundle on their cloud storage costs. For example at the 49TB/month tier standard storage costs change in each region:

	EU (Ireland)	US East (N. Virginia)	US West (N. California)
49 TB / month	Before: $0.080 / GB After: $0.075 / GB	Before: $.080 / GB After: $0.075 / GB	Before: $0.090 / GB After: $0.084 / GB

But perhaps the bigger news is EBS price reduction. On EBS Standard volumes, prices have dropped from $0.11 per GB-month of provisioned storage to $.055 per GB-month. The price reductions are big shots fired over the bows of other public cloud service providers and begs the question, "why wait to move to the cloud?"

New instance types on BCH

Amazon had two announcements today: two new sizes for M3 instances and huge price drops for S3 and EBS. For EC2 customers, the new instance types – m3.medium and m3.large with 1 and 2 vCPUs respectively – give you greater control over your cloud costs and server capabilities. For example, the M-instance types are ideal for small and mid-size databases and data processing. Amazon also offers C-instance types which are intended for high computer-power applications.

The even better news: we've already added the new instance types to our server management options for Bitnami Cloud Hosting. For the uninitiated, Bitnami Cloud Hosting is an application to help you manage application images in the Amazon cloud. It offers convenient features such as automated backups, ease of scaling up or down, and user-friendly controls for managing your storage. Within Bitnami Cloud Hosting you can launch any of our 80+ images or configure a server with different components or databases. 

Updated Amazon Linux Servers in BitNami Cloud Hosting

BitNami Cloud Hosting makes it easy to install and run Drupal, Joomla!, Wordpress and dozens of other popular open source applications. In addition to facilitating the initial install, it provides automatic monitoring of your servers, one-click backup and restore and server scheduling.

When creating a server you have several configurations options at the Cloud, server and application level. Today we want to announce that we have added support for the latest version of Amazon Linux , recently released.

Amazon Linux is supported as one of the native stack options. The native stack images do not include BitNami components for the server components. Instead, we use the Red Hat and Amazon Linux native stacks (Apache web server, PHP, MySQL database etc.), and install BitNami web applications on top of it. This allows you to use the operating system tools to keep the stack components up to date and enables you to maintain consistency across your pre-existing environments.

For details about the new Amazon Linux images, please take a look at the release notes.

BitNami Cloud Hosting support for RHEL 6.3, Amazon Linux

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BitNami Cloud Hosting simplifies the deployment of popular web applications and development runtimes on the Amazon Cloud. It provides the same ease of use and convenience that you have come to expect from BitNami stacks but also adds automatic backups, monitoring, one-click resizing and many more features. We have a diverse user base, ranging from students to governments to web developers and enterprise business users. Different users favor different underlying operating systems for deployment, either because of personal preferences/expertise or because it is a company standard. We offer you a choice of Ubuntu, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Fedora and Amazon Linux.

Today we released updated versions of RHEL and Amazon Linux in our platform: RHEL 6.3 and Amazon Linux 2012.09.0   To take advantage of them just log in to your console and click "New server" You will be running an instance with your favorite OS and apps in just a few minutes. Enjoy!

Learn How to Run Liferay in the Cloud

Last week, we put on a joint webcast with Liferay on running Liferay in the cloud, which is now available online. During the presentation, we cover the benefits of running Liferay in the cloud as well as some of the pitfalls to watch out for. We then discuss cloud deployment options and show you how to deploy Liferay to the cloud with BitNami Cloud Hosting.

Learn more and sign up for BitNami Cloud Hosting on our Liferay in the cloud page.

Run Liferay Enterprise Edition in the Cloud with BitNami

We are happy to announce that you can now run Liferay Enterprise Edition in the cloud with BitNami! We have partnered with Liferay to provide one click deployment and simplified management of the enterprise portal on the Amazon Cloud with BitNami Cloud Hosting.

If you are not familiar with it, Liferay is a complete, Java-based portal platform. It can be used as a web content management system, an integration platform, a collaboration platform, a social application platform or any combination thereof. Liferay customers range from federal agencies and major investment banks to media and branding-rich organizations like Sesame Street.

BitNami Cloud Hosting is a platform that simplifies the deployment and management of web applications in the cloud. It provides one-click application deployment, automatic incremental backups, resizing, server scheduling, monitoring, cloning and other features that enable businesses to deploy and manage applications in the cloud. Now that Liferay is included in the BitNami Cloud Hosting library, you can have a complete Liferay platform up and running in the cloud in minutes. Snapshot functionality makes it easy to make copies of production servers to test upgrades before deploying them or to develop new features separate from the production environment. 

To learn more, download our free joint whitepaper, "Running Liferay in the Cloud with BitNami".

You can sign up for BitNami Cloud Hosting at: http://bitnami.org/cloud and for a free trial of Liferay Enterprise at: http://www.liferay.com/bitnami-trial

Server Cloning, Custom Firewalls and Other New Features in BitNami Cloud Hosting

We have been hard at work improving BitNami Cloud Hosting, our platform for deploying and managing the BitNami Application Library in the cloud and we are pleased to announce the release of several new features:

Server Cloning

The new 'clone' button allows you to make an exact copy of your server in one click. This is great for testing out new code or updates on an exact clone of your production server. It also allows you to make a copy of your server in a different AWS account, in case you have separate accounts for development and production, or if you separate accounts for separate customers and want to be able to re-use work you have done for one for another client.

The clone button appears at the top of the Manage Server screen for each of your servers.

Server-specific Firewall Rules

Many of you requested the ability to set special firewall rules on a per-server basis, rather than have the same rules apply to all of your servers. We're happy to report that this functionality is now available in BitNami Cloud Hosting, as shown above. The new Firewall tab in the Manage Server screen allows you to add custom firewalls just for that server, or to edit the default firewalls for it. This feature allows you to add additional security to your server by controlling access to it.

Server Status Details

The new Server Status Details dialog lets you see exactly what is happening to your server, both during the build process and once the server is launched. To access this dialog, click on the "more info" link next to the Status indicator on the Manage Server screen.

In addition to the above features, we have made a number of improvements on the back-end to speed up the  build process as well as the user interface. Stay tuned for several more improvements to the UI that make it even faster and easier to use!

Don't have a BitNami Cloud Hosting account yet? Sign up for free and you'll have your cloud server up and running on the Amazon Cloud in minutes!

BitNami Customer Spotlight: Nimble Books

We are often asked about how people use BitNami Cloud Hosting. As with the cloud in general, there are a huge variety of use cases and our customer base is incredibly diverse - ranging from Fortune 500s to universities to solutions providers who rely on BitNami Cloud Hosting to host applications for their clients. This is part of a series of posts that highlighting a few BitNami Cloud Hosting customers and explaining how they are using the platform to save time, money and do things that they couldn't do before they had BitNami and cloud computing.


BitNami Customer Spotlight: Nimble Books

Nimble Books provides an online platform, Nimble Combinatorial Publishing (NCP), for automatically building and publishing e-books based on content that is open access, public domain, user-contributed and other data. The NCP content repository can access more than 10 million documents, which can be selected, combined, and annotated in an almost inconceivably large number of combinations and permutations.

In order to develop the platform and launch the business, the company had to build out its infrastructure and the application itself. Nimble first used BitNami Cloud Hosting to evaluate various applications for this purpose, including WordPress, MediaWiki, Magento, Solr and Redmine, running up to ten separate servers for development and testing purposes. The ability to quickly launch instances with a wide variety of applications made it easy for Nimble to evaluate the apps that would be the best fit for its needs.

After determining that Magento, an e-commerce platform, Solr, an enterprise search platform, and Redmine, a bug-tracking system, were the best fit for the company, Nimble put them all into production. The company is currently running three separate servers for these apps: one for the production store, one for failover and another for research and development. One of the many benefits that Nimble receives from BitNami Cloud Hosting is that it can spin up duplicate machines at will for both development and scaling purposes.

For Nimble Books, BitNami Cloud Hosting provides the foundational technology upon which the product and the company itself was built. The service enabled Nimble to rapidly develop its application without losing precious development time setting up and configuring development environments and provides ongoing value with its one-click server cloning feature, monitoring and automatic backup capabilities. In addition to powering the product itself, BitNami Cloud Hosting is used to host the bug-tracking system for the development team and the Solr-based search engine. According to the company's founder, Fred Zimmerman, BitNami Cloud Hosting provided "obstacle removal and acceleration", speeding time to market while eliminating the need to purchase or configure any servers.

A PDF of the complete case study is also available.

BitNami Customer Spotlight: Brescia University

We are often asked about how people use BitNami Cloud Hosting. As with the cloud in general, there are a huge variety of use cases and our customer base is incredibly diverse - ranging from Fortune 500s to universities to solutions providers who rely on BitNami Cloud Hosting to host applications for their clients. This is part of a series of posts that highlighting a few BitNami Cloud Hosting customers and explaining how they are using the platform to save time, money and do things that they couldn't do before they had BitNami and cloud computing.

BitNami Customer Spotlight: Brescia University College

The web development team at Brescia University College is responsible for developing and deploying new web applications for the university. Going through the process of requesting, ordering and setting up new servers could take weeks, slowing down new development projects. In addition to having to wait for new equipment, working with physical servers gave the team finite development resources, restricting their ability to experiment with new applications.

The Brescia University web development team turned to BitNami Cloud Hosting and Amazon Web Services to get fast, cost-effective access to servers for evaluation, development and testing projects, as well as for applications they only need for a short period of time. On-demand access to cloud resources allows the team to spin up new servers within minutes so that they can be productive almost instantly, while only paying for the compute resources they actually use. When a project is complete or an application is no longer needed, the team simply deletes the server instance.

The Brescia University College web development team counts BitNami as "a key component of [their] 'flexible cloud' strategy" due to the platform's ability to rapidly provision servers with popular open source applications, its one-click server cloning and automated backups. These features enable the team to deploy new servers with the apps they need in minutes, clone them to set up new development environments or test updates before putting them into production, and ensure that they always have complete copies of their servers available in the event they run into issues. As a result, the web development team gets access to the resources they need, when they need them, and is able to select, develop and deploy new applications more quickly. Because they only pay for the resources they use, they are able to achieve these benefits while staying within a limited budget. Dan Bashaw, a web developer for the university says that BitNami Cloud Hosting saves him a considerable amount of time, enabling him to "do [his] job without getting bogged down in server management and administration."

A PDF of the complete case study is also available.

BitNami Customer Spotlight: Promethius Consulting

We are often asked about how people use BitNami Cloud Hosting. As with the cloud in general, there are a huge variety of use cases and our customer base is incredibly diverse - ranging from Fortune 500s to universities to solutions providers who rely on BitNami Cloud Hosting to host applications for their clients. This will be the first in a series of posts that will highlight a few BitNami Cloud Hosting customers and explain how they are using the platform to save time, money and do things that they couldn't do before they had BitNami and cloud computing.

BitNami Customer Spotlight: Promethius Consulting

Promethius Consulting provides network maintenance and support as well as website development and application hosting services to small and medium-sized businesses. Alfresco is one of several applications for which Promethius provides custom development and hosting services. Initially, Promethius was hosting Alfresco on internal servers with a multi-tenant setup, but the company was unhappy with the performance and lack of flexibility that approach provided.

After evaluating several options, Promethius came to the conclusion that running their servers on the Amazon Web Services cloud platform (AWS) would give them the best combination of performance and flexibility. Promethius chose BitNami Cloud Hosting to automate and facilitate the deployment and management of their Alfresco servers on the AWS cloud.

Aaron Toops, Director of Managed Services for Promethius, says they chose BitNami because "We save time and money, so we can focus our development team on making our product better for the customer instead of manually managing and deploying instances. " Promethius takes advantage of BitNami Cloud Hosting's one-click deployment process, automated backups, monitoring and management tools to speed up their development and deployment processes, allowing them to deliver solutions more quickly to customers while reducing costs. One feature that Promethius finds especially useful is the ability to clone servers across different AWS accounts. This allows them to use a "gold image" - a version of BitNami's Alfresco application that includes their own customizations and improvements - to deploy new servers for clients on separate AWS accounts in one click.

Mr. Toops also appreciates the support he gets from the BitNami team, commenting that "BitNami has been a great partner, actively listening and responding to our needs as a customer. Their support is simply outstanding, attentive, timely, and vested in fixing any issues we encounter. "

With BitNami Cloud Hosting and AWS, Promethius has been able to build out a new line of business around the Alfresco Enterprise Content Management System without any capital expenditure. BitNami's automated deployment process saves Promethius valuable development time, allowing them to deliver solutions more quickly and efficiently to their growing customer base.

A downloadable PDF of the complete case study is also available. 

Simplified BitNami Cloud Hosting Plans

At BitNami, our goal is to make it as simple as possible to deploy and manage your favorite open source (and other) applications in the cloud. Providing simple and clear pricing is an important part of this. As a result of customer feedback, we have further simplified our plans for BitNami Cloud Hosting to eliminate the limit on the number of cloud provider accounts that you can have tied to your BitNami Cloud Hosting account at each plan level. So, you can now connect an unlimited number of AWS accounts to your BitNami Cloud Hosting account, regardless of which plan you are on - no more having to selectively choose which accounts to connect!

Why would you want to have more than one AWS account set up in your BitNami Cloud Hosting account? Many of our customers like to have separate AWS accounts for development, testing and production. Others are using BitNami Cloud Hosting to provide hosted applications to their clients and like to have a separate AWS account for each client. Still others have separate accounts for business and personal use. By connecting all of your AWS accounts to your BitNami Cloud Hosting account, you can view and manage your servers across all of your accounts from a single dashboard, eliminating the need to switch between accounts and keep track of multiple logins and passwords.

With BitNami's recently added capability to move instances/servers across AWS accounts, having more cloud accounts tied to your BitNami Cloud Hosting account makes even more sense - you can easily move servers from your separate development, test and production accounts, or create a "gold" image that includes BitNami software plus your modifications to easily spin up new client sites across different AWS accounts.

Haven't tried BitNami Cloud Hosting yet? Sign up today for a free developer account. You can have your favorite open source apps up and running on the Amazon Cloud in minutes!

New How-to Guide: Upgrading from an Older BitNami AMI to a New One

At BitNami, we strive to always provide you with the most up-to-date versions of all of the applications and supporting software that we package. In connection with this, we are constantly publishing updated BitNami Stacks. In fact, just this month-to-date, we have already published over 20 BitNami Stack updates!

One of the many benefits of running BitNami in the cloud is that you can easily clone servers to apply updates before promoting an updated server into production. This is made even easier with BitNami Cloud Hosting, our platform for deploying and managing web apps in the cloud. We have put together a how-to guide to walk you through the process of upgrading your BitNami instance from one AMI version to another, which will work for both AMIs launched directly through Amazon as well as those launched with BitNami Cloud Hosting. In addition to this general guide, we have also put together tutorials for upgrading servers running BitNami Wordpress, Joomla! and Drupal on the Amazon cloud.

Enjoy!