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Cloud Computing and Mobile Devices at the BlackBerry Developer Conference
AWS user Bob Wise (VP of Engineering for Melodeo, producer of nuTsie) asked me to pass along some information about his upcoming session at the BlackBerry Developer Conference (November 9-12 in San Francisco). Here’s the scoop: Developers who want to build scalable, cost-effective cloud-based solutions will be interested in this session. Learn about Melodeo’s client/server […]
Read MoreThe AWS Blog: The First Five Years
I was checking out the archive for this blog and realized that I wrote my first post exactly five years ago! In that time I’ve written posts to introduce each of our new services. Here’s a quick recap of the highlights: We started out with the November 2004 introduction of the Amazon Simple Queue Service […]
Read MoreNew EC2 High-Memory Instances
In many cases, scaling out (by launching additional instances) is the best way to bring additional CPU processing power and memory to bear on a problem, while also distributing network traffic across multiple NICs (Network Interface Controllers). Certain workloads, however, are better supported by scaling up with a more capacious instance. Examples of these workloads […]
Read MoreAmazon EC2 – Now an Even Better Value
Effective November 1, 2009, the following per-hour prices will be in effect for Amazon EC2: US EU Linux Windows SQL Linux Windows SQL m1.small $0.085 $0.12 $0.095 $0.13 m1.large $0.34 $0.48 $1.08 $0.38 $0.52 $1.12 m1.xlarge $0.68 $0.96 $1.56 $0.76 $1.04 $1.64 c1.medium $0.17 $0.29 $0.19 $0.31 c1.xlarge $0.68 $1.16 $2.36 $0.76 $1.24 $2.44 This […]
Read MoreIntroducing Amazon RDS – The Amazon Relational Database Service
We are always looking for ways to make it faster, simpler, and more fun to develop applications of all types. Every hour that you don’t spend fiddling with hardware, tracing cables, installing operating systems or managing databases is an hour that you can spend on the unique and value-added aspects of your application. Today I’d […]
Read MoreNew Public Data Set: YRI Trio
The YRI Trio Public Data Set provides complete genome sequence data for three Yoruba individuals from Ibadan, Nigeria, which represent the first human genomes sequenced using Illuminas next generation Sequence-by-Synthesis technology. This data represents some of the first individual human genomes to be sequenced and peer-reviewed (the full story is here). This article contains full […]
Read MoreAWS Workshops in Beijing, Bangalore and Chennai
I will be in China and India starting next week. Apart from other meetings and presentations to user group, this time, I will be taking up 3-hour workshops. These workshops are targeted at architects and technical decision makers and attendees will get a chance to play with core AWS infrastructure services. If you are a […]
Read MoreSecondTeacher – Scalable Math Homework Help in the Cloud
Despite the fact that I have written over 800 posts for this blog, I never know what to expect in terms of traffic or attention from any given post. Last Friday afternoon I spent an hour or two putting together a relatively quick post to remind everyone that it is possible to use Amazon SimpleDB […]
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