AWS News Blog
Content Workflow in the Cloud – Hollywood, California
Next week (July 27th to be precise) I will be speaking at a special event in Hollywood, California. Titled Enabling Content Workflows in the Cloud, the event is sponsored by AWS and Aspera. I’ll be presenting, as willl Michelle Munson (President, CEO, and co-founder of Aspera). If you work in media, digital media, or entertainment […]
Read MoreAmazon Simple Email Service Now Supports Attachments
You can now use the Amazon Simple Email Service to send email message that include attachments such as images or documents. There are no new “attachment” APIs. Instead, you simply use the existing SendRawEmail function to send a message that includes one or more MIME parts. Each part of the message must be of a […]
Read MorejReport on EC2
Christie from Jinfonet emailed to tell me about their newest video, Cloud Reporting from Amazon EC2: Per their recent press release, their JReport product can be installed on one or more EC2 instances with linear scaling as additional instances are added. A clustered installation of JReport can include hundreds of EC2 nodes and is able […]
Read MoreAWS Events for July 2011
Here’s what we have in store for the month of July (these are late; I was on vacation): Webinars: July 13 – AWS Office Hours: Development and Test – 9:00 AM PST July 21 – Introduction to Amazon Web Services – 9:00 AM PST July 25 – Predicting Costs on Amazon Web Services – 9:00 […]
Read MoreIntroducing the AWS SDK for Ruby
Ruby is a wonderful programming language. Optimized for ‘developer joy’, it is an object oriented playground for building simple domain specific languages, orchestration tools, and most famously, web applications. In many ways, the Ruby language and Amazon cloud services such as EC2 and S3 have similar goals: to help developers and businesses build innovative products without […]
Read MoreSummer Startups: Sportaneous
Over the summer months, we’d like to share a few stories from startups around the world: what are they working on and how they are using the cloud to get things done. Today, we’re profiling Sportaneous from New York City! The StoryI first learned about Sportaneous after reading about NYC Big Apps, an application contest […]
Read MoreExtending Microsoft Licensing Mobility to the AWS Cloud: Now You Can Run Several Windows Server Applications on AWS
Earlier in the month, Microsoft announced Microsoft License Mobility with Software Assurance Program. This allows you to move Windows Server applications licenses between your on-premises environment and the cloud. Today, I am really excited to announce that AWS and Microsoft have joined together to extend Microsoft License Mobility through Software Assurance to the AWS Cloud. […]
Read MoreEC2 Spot Pricing – Now Specific to Each Availability Zone
We have made an important change to the way pricing works for EC2 Spot Instances. We are replacing the original Region-based pricing information with more detailed information that is specific to each Availability Zone. This change ensures that both the supply (the amount of unused EC2 capacity) and the demand (the amount and number of […]
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