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RightScale Webinar: Leveraging Amazon's Elastic Block Store
AWS Editor via Amazon Web Services Blog on Wed, 27 Aug. 2008
The folks at RightScale will be conducting a readmore
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Amazon SimpleDB Releases QueryWithAttributes
AWS Editor via Amazon Web Services Blog on Mon, 25 Aug. 2008
Amazon SimpleDB just released an update that includes a new feature called QueryWithAttributes readmore
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Amazon EBS (Elastic Block Store) - Bring Us Your Data
AWS Editor via Amazon Web Services Blog on Thu, 21 Aug. 2008
A few months ago I talked about our plans to offer a persistent storage feature for Amazon EC2. At that time I indicated that the service was in a limited alpha release with a small number of customers. Since then the alpha testers have been putting the service to good use and have readmore
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Amazon EBS - Tool and Library Support
AWS Editor via Amazon Web Services Blog on Thu, 21 Aug. 2008
This is a companion post to my earlier post -- Amazon EBS (Elastic Block Store) - Bring Us Your Data. In the other post you can read about the features of EBS. This post goes into more detail on the tool and library support that has been built by our community of third-party developers. Here are some tools: readmore
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Amazon DevPay Introduces Tiered Usage-Based Pricing
AWS Editor via Amazon Web Services Blog on Tue, 05 Aug. 2008
Amazon DevPay now has a new and very powerful feature: tiered pricing for all usage-based components of a product's price. Using this new feature, you have more flex readmore
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New features come to Amazon SimpleDB
AWS Editor via Amazon Web Services Blog on Mon, 28 Jul. 2008
Amazon SimpleDB released a new version last week. With this new version, developers will be now able sort the results and use a new does-not-start-with operator in their queries - the two most frequently asked feature requests. I readmore
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WalkScore.com - Another Web Hosting Success Story
AWS Editor via Amazon Web Services Blog on Wed, 23 Jul. 2008
Everyday, we hear new stories about a cool new startup and its success story. Today, It was WalkScore.com. The website of readmore
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Can Scanning as a Service Clean Your Desk Off?
AWS Editor via Amazon Web Services Blog on Wed, 23 Jul. 2008
Does your desk look like this photo? No comment on where the photo was taken, of course... There's hope! Pixily just launched, with readmore
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White Paper on 'Cloud Architectures' and Best Practices of Amazon S3, EC2, SimpleDB, SQS
AWS Editor via Amazon Web Services Blog on Wed, 16 Jul. 2008
I am very happy to announce my white paper on Cloud Architectures is now ready. This is one incarnation of the Emerging Cloud Service Architectures that Jeff wrote about a few weeks ago. If you are new to the readmore
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Friday Wrapup...
AWS Editor via Amazon Web Services Blog on Fri, 27 Jun. 2008
It is finally summer here in Seattle and I'm trying to get out of the office as early as possible today. Here are a few cool things that have recently landed in my inbox: Don MacAskill wrote to tell m readmore
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Wanted: AWS Architecture Blog Posts & Diagrams
AWS Editor via Amazon Web Services Blog on Fri, 27 Jun. 2008
From time to time, potential users of AWS ask me about the best way to set up a highly scalable architecture using Amazon EC2, S3, SimpleDB, and SQS. I'd like to challenge readers of this blog to document their AWS-powered architectu readmore
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JBoss Releases on Amazon EC2
AWS Editor via Amazon Web Services Blog on Fri, 20 Jun. 2008
By now many of you are aware that Red Hat Enterprise Linux is fully supported by Red Hat on Amazon EC2. You can read more about the offering at http://www.redhat.com/solutions/cloud/. Jeff Barr blogged about this in November, 2007 ( readmore
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Splunk Ninja & Processing Distributed Logs
AWS Editor via Amazon Web Services Blog on Thu, 19 Jun. 2008
Early this morning, Ilya Grigorik, founder of AideRSS, sent me a short note v readmore
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Trip Report: Around the World
AWS Editor via Amazon Web Services Blog on Tue, 17 Jun. 2008
Last week I came back from my India and Japan trip - one of my best trips till date. It was a complete round trip around the globe - I traveled from Seattle to Mumbai (via Atlantic Ocean), traveled within India (Mumb readmore
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Zooming in on Innovation
AWS Editor via Amazon Web Services Blog on Mon, 16 Jun. 2008
Innovation is what the industry is all about, and I am always amazed at the creative people I meet. Last November I spoke to Amazon Camp in Toronto, and after the presentation one developer stuck around for a few minutes. “I’d like to show you a site that I built”. He proceeded to show me a beta version of w readmore
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Fingad - Social Networking for Serious Investors Using EC2 and S3
AWS Editor via Amazon Web Services Blog on Mon, 09 Jun. 2008
As part of a trip to New York earlier this year, the folks at Strateer were kind enough to set up an informal meeting with some AWS users in the area. Before lunch they pointed out a small conference room to me and told me that they had invited "a few local users. readmore
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Cloud Camp, and More
AWS Editor via Amazon Web Services Blog on Wed, 04 Jun. 2008
Are you looking for an opportunity to really drill down thru the hype, and learn what Cloud Computing is all about? There are a variety of "Cloud Computing" camps, conferences, and panel discussions. This post summarizes relevant events that that I am aware of; readmore
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The Emerging Cloud Service Architecture
AWS Editor via Amazon Web Services Blog on Tue, 03 Jun. 2008
Shared by mndoci and it continues to grow I'm going to go out on a limb today and try to paint a picture of where some of this cool and crazy cloud-based infrastructure may be going. While none of what I will write about is idle speculation, it is based on just a few data points, and may be totally off base. However, I do get to talk to plenty of entrepreneurs an readmore
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IntrIdea Rolls out Scalr, Updates MediaPlug, Builds Community
AWS Editor via Amazon Web Services Blog on Fri, 30 May. 2008
The folks at Intridea have been coding up a storm! In time for this week's Railsconf, they are rolling out a hosted, on-demand version of their popular Scalr tool, a new release of their readmore
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More EC2 Power
AWS Editor via Amazon Web Services Blog on Fri, 30 May. 2008
Amazon EC2 users now have access to a pair of new "High-CPU" instance types. T readmore
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