AWS Start-Up Tour (August 14, 2008)
The 2008 AWS Start-Up Tour is set to take off September 3rd. We invite all start-up leaders and entrepreneurs to join us for these half-day events to learn how AWS empowers entrepreneurship, innovation and sustainable growth. Join us in San Francisco, Palo Alto, Boston, New York, Austin, Salt Lake City, Los Angeles, Seattle, Toronto, London, and Amsterdam. Seats are limited, RSVP today.
Announcing New Web-Based Tools for Mechanical Turk (July 30, 2008)
AWS is pleased to announce a new set of web-based tools for Amazon Mechanical Turk that make it easier for developers and businesses to outsource work to an on-demand, scalable workforce. These new tools allow users to create 1,000s or 100,000s of Human Intelligence Tasks (HITs) in a matter of minutes via mturk.com. Now users can choose from SDKs, Command Line Tools, or web-based tools to design, publish and manage their HITs.
SimpleDB Releases Query Sort (July 24, 2008)
Amazon SimpleDB has released a highly requested feature: Query Sort. Query Sort allows you to sort a Query result set on a single attribute, in ascending or descending order. This new feature extends SimpleDB's existing Query functionality and provides even more flexibility for developers.
Cloud Architectures White Paper (PDF) (July 16, 2008)
In this white paper, AWS Technical Evangelist Jinesh Varia outlines the benefits of building architectures in the cloud, documents a Hadoop-run application (GrepTheWeb) with architecture diagrams, and discovers best practices for using Amazon S3, EC2, SQS, and SimpleDB. View the two-part HTML version: Cloud Architectures and AWS Best Practices.
