Author: Jeff Barr

A few of the cool things that I have sitting in my inbox today: Mechanical Turk API in PHP – “PHP implementation of the Amazon Mechanical Turk API, allowing any PHP application to access the mTurk system and perform all available actions.“ Dave Winer: It’s an S3 Tuesday – “S3 is truly useful.” John Eberly: […]

Jeremy Zawody followed up on his promise to use Amazon S3 for backup by compiling a list of S3 Backup Tools. The article itself is very helpful, but there’s also a lot of good information in the comments. At this point Jeremy is in the process of enumerating and examining the alternatives. I’m sure that […]

Earlier today Jeff barr told me that he uploaded all his photos to amazon S3 using S3Fox Organizer. S3Fox Organizer, developed by Rahul Jonna, is a firefox extension for managing your objects in Amazon S3. We had blogged about it earlier. Motivated by the number of hits he received, Rahul released a new version (v0.3) […]

Amazon Web Services has a number of evangelists, as previously noted, so I’d like to introduce myself (Mike Culver). Last night I had the opportunity to deliver the first in the series of presentations that Jeff recently announced. We had a near-record turnout of the Winnipeg .NET Users Group, with approximately 60 developers in attendance. […]

Hiya, I am Jinesh Varia! This is my first blog post on the AWS blog. Its so cool to be an evangelist, travel around, talk about what cool things people are building and most importantly talk about what cool things YOU can build. Nowadays, Anything and everything that has a high “coolness-factor” gets immediate attention […]

Superstar developer John Krystynak  (he also built Texsy and Aytozon) dropped me a little “by the way” about his latest creation, the Amazon Prime Finder. Amazon Prime, for those of you who don’t know, is our “all you can eat” (or read, or listen to) shipping plan. After payment of an annual fee, all of […]

If, as many of my readers do, you have scrutinized this blog from side to side and top to bottom, you have probably seen the Media/Analyst Inquiries link. Earlier this afternoon we received a request (via said link) from a prominent Seattle-area podcaster. He would like to interview a developer who is using Ruby on […]

Lots of stuff queued up today: Jeremy Zawody has “done the math” and has decided to replace his home backup server with Amazon S3. Jeremy computed the cost of his hardware and his power and also took the “hassle factor” into account. All things considered, S3 came out ahead. The Daily Radario displays the top […]

Mamoon Yunus, author of the SOA Testing Blog and advisor to Crosscheck Networks sent me a link to an interesting and relevant How-To document. Using SOAPSonar to Provision Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud covers downloading and installation of a free trial version of Crosscheck’s SOAPSonar product and then shows the steps needed to load the X.509 […]

Early today someone who reads this blog posted the following comment: how do i contact for disputing charges ec2 crashed on me and my account is still getting charged i wnt to be reimbursed We’ll be happy to help, but you didn’t leave a good email address with your comment! Send a note to awseditor@amazon.com […]