Most recent blog posts

New high performance plan - Happy Hippo

We are happy to announce a new high performance plan for the public, Heavy Hippo! This is a plan that allow a very high message rate.

Azure

We now provide RabbitMQ hosting on the Microsoft Azure platform. We are also integrated with Microsoft Azure Store so that you can buy our fully managed RabbitMQ clusters directly through the Azure portal.

Amazon VPC Peering with CloudAMQP

Amazon VPC let you define a private network in the cloud. In this post we will explain how to set up a peering connection between your VPC and CloudAMQP VPC.

Softlayer

It is now possible create a RabbitMQ server in Softlayer's datacenters with just one click! Get started by entering the control panel for CloudAMQP. Sign up and create a new instance.

Integrate Sneakers with Activejob

This guide provides you with all you need to get started in creating, enqueuing and executing background jobs with RabbitMQ and Sneakers in Active Job.

RabbitMQ 3.4

RabbitMQ 3.4 is released!! From this point, all new created clusters will be running RabbitMQ 3.4.1. Already running dedicated clusters can be upgraded from our console page. Go to the tab nodes and press Upgrade RabbitMQ.

Server metrics for dedicated plans

We've added a feature to view server metrics for dedicated plans. Today we introduce a new monitoring capability. On the dashboard we have added a link from the console to the server metrics charts.

SSD drives on all new servers

Increased persisted message througput thanks to SSD disks. Amazon EC2 recently made SSD available and now all new CloudAMQP servers comes with it by default. Look forward to greatly increased persistent message throughput!

Rotate credentials

We've introduced the ability to rotate credentials for your CloudAMQP instances from the console. This is particularly useful on platforms like Heroku where your app will be automatically restarted with the new password among the environment variables.

New high performance plan - Awesome Ape

Today we make a new high performance plan available for the public, Awesome Ape. We've had customers with very high message rate requirements running it for a while.