AWS News Blog
Amazon S3 – 905 Billion Objects and 650,000 Requests/Second
At the end of the first quarter of 2012, there were 905 billion objects in Amazon S3. We routinely handle 650,000 requests per second for those objects with occasional peaks substantially above that number. Here is the latest chart: The S3 object count continued to grow at a rapid clip even after we added object […]
Amazon DynamoDB Libraries, Mappers, and Mock Implementations Galore!
Todays guest blogger is Dave Lang, Product Manager of the DynamoDB team, who has a great list of tools and SDKs that will allow you to use DynamoDB from just about any language or environment. — Jeff; Since its launch in January, DynamoDB has seen great adoption among our customers; many of them are using […]
The AWS Report – Episode 1 – Rob Frederick of Gripwire
I am pleased as punch (whatever that means) to share the first episode of The AWS Report with you! In the inaugural episode, I interview Rob Frederick, Co-founder and CEO of Seattle-based Gripwire: Future episodes will feature interviews with members of the teams that bring you AWS, as well as more interviews with startups and […]
Live Smooth Streaming With CloudFront and Windows IIS Media Services
Nihar from the CloudFront team is back, with another live streaming option for Amazon CloudFront! — Jeff; Flexibility is one of the key benefits you get with AWS you can use our services either stand-alone or together in a building-block fashion, you choose which operating system to use with Amazon EC2, the type of origin […]
New Amazon EC2 Fresh Servers
Let’s face it. Sometimes you just need a local server. Perhaps your office is too cold, or you have the urge to pull the cover off and reseat the memory. Or, you might have some data on floppy disks that you simply cannot live without. Because we will leave no stone unturned in our efforts […]
New Whitepaper: The Total Cost of (Non) Ownership of a NoSQL Database Service
We have received tremendous positive feedback from customers and partners since we launched Amazon DynamoDB two months ago. Amazon DynamoDB enables customers to offload the administrative burden of operating and scaling a highly available distributed database cluster while only paying for the actual system resources they consume. We also received a ton of great feedback […]
Live Streaming with Amazon CloudFront & Flash Media Server 4.5
Today, Nihar Bihani of the Amazon CloudFront team is back again, with another guest post. — Jeff; Today, Id like to tell you about two different ways weve improved our live streaming solution. But before I dive into whats changing, I want to start by calling out some things that are staying the same. Our […]
Amazon DynamoDB and the AWS SDK for .NET
Pavel Safronov, a developer on our SDK and Tools team, sent the following guest post my way! — Jeff; The AWS SDK for .NET provides a simple client for our new service, Amazon DynamoDB. This client gives you a straight-forward way to interface with this Internet-scale NoSQL database service. But what you might not know […]