AWS News Blog
IBM Software Available on EC2 With Pay-As-You-Go Licensing Model
We’ve teamed up with IBM to provide software developers with pay-as-you-go access to development and production versions of IBM Information Management database servers, IBM Lotus content management, and IBM WebSphere portal and middleware products, all running on Novell’s SUSE Linux on Amazon EC2. There’s a lot to say, so I’ll summarize the key points up […]
Read MoreAmazon DevPay Expands – Linux in Europe, Windows in the US
The official description of Amazon DevPay describes it as “a simple-to-use online billing and account management service that makes it easy for businesses to sell applications that are built in, or run on top of, Amazon Web Services.” In practice developers are able to monetize Amazon EC2 AMIs and Amazon S3 applications by selling them […]
Read MoreAmazon FPS advances to General Availability, tops it with a limited time FREE offer
We have exciting news coming out right now! Amazon Flexible Payment Service is now in General Availability – and is easier to use with Amazon FPS Quick Starts. Now you can enable your applications with common payment transactions such as one time payments, recurring payments and pre-payments in hours rather than days. Amazon FPS is […]
Read MoreiPhone Console for EC2
This is a very brief post to call your attention to yet more innovation in the Amazon Web Services ecosystem: in this case an iPhone console application that monitors and controls your Amazon EC2 environment. David Kavanagh and company cooked this up over at directThought. My mind immediately went to “Sitting in Maui, umbrella drink […]
Read MoreNews from Europe
[post by Simone Brunozzi, AWS Technology Evangelist in Europe, email: simoneb at amazon dot com] Greetings everyone, I want to update you on some cool news regarding events and trips in Europe in the next few weeks: – Monday, February 2nd and 3rd, London, UK I keynote the Powered by Cloud conference, speaking at 4pm […]
Read MoreNew CloudFront Pricing Tiers for our High Volume Users
On February 1st, additional pricing tiers for high volume users of Amazon CloudFront go in to effect. We’ve been working to reduce our costs and to pass our savings along to you, our customers. If you are in the top bandwidth tier you can deliver content to customers in the United States and Europe for […]
Read MoreAWS Links – Tuesday, January 27, 2009
A whole lot of interesting AWS items have landed in my inbox in the 20 days since my last links post. Here’s what I have queued up: Chris Richardson wrote to tell me that there are still a few seats available in his upcoming half-day class, Running Java and Grails applications on Amazon EC2. The […]
Read MoreAWS Job: Architect & Designer Position in Turkey
Late last year an entrepreneur from Turkey visited me at Amazon HQ in Seattle. We talked about his plans to use AWS as part of his new social video portal startup. I won’t spill any beans before he’s ready to talk about it himself, but I will say that he has a really good concept, […]
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