Newsletters
October 2007
Newsletter #30
Greetings AWS Developers,
Lots going on! I’ll keep the preview short so that you can get to the goodies, but a quick browse below will tell you that we’ve been busy with everything from launching an Amazon S3 SLA to preparing for additional Start-Up Events in southern California. Also be sure to read about the AWS Start-Up Challenge, and enter to win $100K in addition to other big prizes.
Kathrin Jackson
Amazon Web Services
Amazon S3 Announces Service Level Agreement
Effective October 1st, 2007, AWS is providing a Service Level Agreement (SLA) to all customers using Amazon S3. The Amazon S3 SLA provides a customer with service credits if his/her monthly uptime percentage falls below our service commitment in any billing cycle. We’ve heard from some of our customers that an SLA is important, so we are pleased to offer this to the Amazon S3 community.
AWS Start-up Challenge: Big Ideas, Big Rewards
We’re searching for the next hot start-up building its infrastructure and business on Amazon Web Services. If you have either a new idea or an existing application that uses AWS, enter the AWS Start-Up Challenge to win $100,000 in cash and AWS credits, and receive an investment offer from Amazon. We’re seeing some really innovative stuff already, but we know there’s more. Come on, we know you’re out there, don’t be shy!
Learn more and submit your idea.
Amazon Mechanical Turk: Open Source SDKs
If you’re a .NET, Perl, or Java developer, keep reading. The Mechanical Turk team has released a few more SDKs for these languages into the open source community, and we encourage all of you to participate and contribute to help make these SDKs great for developers!
Upcoming AWS Start-up Events: San Diego and Los Angeles
Did you miss The Start-Up Project in Palo Alto, San Francisco, New York, or Boston? With exciting start-up activity happening in southern California, we are bringing the event to San Diego and L.A.
San Diego, CA
October 22nd, 2-7pm
RSVP – San Diego
Los Angeles (Santa Monica), CA
October 23rd, 2-7pm
RSVP – Los Angeles
AWS Developer Chat in Second Life
Second Life is a three-dimensional virtual world. Amazon Web Services Senior Evangelist Jeff Barr has been conducting developer chats on the Amazon Developer Islands in Second Life, and you are welcome to attend! Upcoming October chats are scheduled for the 18th, and 25th and will be held at 10 AM Pacific Time. Discussion topics at previous chat sessions included Amazon EC2, Amazon S3, and other developer-oriented topics.
In order to attend you will need to create a Second Life avatar and download the desktop client.
You can also join the Amazon Developer Island Guests group to receive notification before each scheduled chat. Jeff’s avatar name is Jeffronius Batra; you can message him before the chat if you are in need of any assistance. Look forward to seeing you there!
Developer Resources: Mix It Up!
This month we’re highlighting resources that cover a mix of services, languages, and formats. Go for it!
Economical Use of Amazon S3 with Ruby on Rails
Robert Dempsey’s second tutorial shows you how to efficiently make requests to Amazon S3.
Create Your Own Customized AMI
A video on how to customize an existing Amazon Machine Image (AMI) and save it as your own private image.
iBazaar
A simple marketplace application, in C#, for Amazon FPS
Solutions Catalog Highlights: What Your Peers Are Building
Coupa On-Demand
A Web 2.0 e-procurement solution that delivers big business purchasing automation and spending controls to small and midsize organizations. Built on Amazon S3 and EC2.
The first user-friendly computer with primary storage in Amazon S3!
Content Spooling Network
AWS Developer Chris Crompton has built the Content Spooling Network (CSN) using Amazon Mechanical Turk. CSN has modularized the entire ghostwriting process into discrete tasks and leverages Mechanical Turk workers to complete them. Using this methodology, CSN is able to provide this service to hundreds of webmasters each week allowing them to drive more traffic to their sites and further monetize their web properties.
Not listed in the Solutions Catalog yet? Start with our community co-marketing. Check out the AWS blog for more news about AWS developers and their applications.
Upcoming Events
Don’t forget to let the AWS evangelists know where you’d like them to visit!
Los Angeles Visual FoxPro Developers Group – El Segundo, CA
October 9, 2007
Mike Culver
Orange County .NET User Group – Rancho Santa Margarita, CA
October 10, 2007
Mike Culver
Virtual Worlds 2007 – San Jose, CA
October 10-11, 2007
Jeff Barr
South Bay .NET User Group – Torrance, CA
October 11, 2007
Mike Culver
Space Coast .NET User Group – Melbourne, FL
October 15, 2007
Mike Culver
Southwest Florida GNU/Linux Users Group – Ft. Myers, FL
October 16, 2007
Mike Culver
San Gabriel Valley .NET Developers Group – San Gabriel, CA
October 17, 2007
Jinesh Varia
Naples .NET User Group – Naples, FL
October 17, 2007
Mike Culver
Orlando .NET User Group – Orlando, FL
October 18, 2007
Mike Culver
San Diego .NET User Group – San Diego, CA
October 23, 2007
Mike Culver
Silicon Valley Code Camp – Los Altos, CA
October 27-28, 2007
Jinesh Varia
CSC Leading Edge Forum – San Francisco, CA
October 29, 2007
Jeff Barr
Developers.ie – Dublin, Ireland
October 30, 2007
Mike Culver
Amazon Web Services Presentation – Dublin, Ireland
October 30, 2007
Mike Culver
Silicon Valley Web Builder – San Francisco, CA
October 31, 2007
Jinesh Varia
Web 2.0 Expo – Berlin, Germany
Keynote by Werner Vogels, Amazon.com VP and CTO
Receive a 100 Euro discount off of conference registration, or sign up for a free Expo Pass
November 5-8, 2007
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