AWS News Blog
Mainframes in the Cloud?
Almost! Micro Focus just deployed a managed mainframe emulation environment that runs on top of Amazon EC2. The beauty of this environment is that you can execute CICS or IMS code in the cloud, essentially unmodified. Micro Focus innovation has three significant benefits: (a) your existing code investment is protected, (b) costs are much, much […]
Read MoreSimpleDB Developer’s Brown Bag
You are invited to join the Amazon SimpleDB team on Tuesday, January 20, 2009 at 9am PST for the first session of our new Developers Brown Bag. During these once monthly webinar sessions, developers will hear from the technical experts behind SimpleDB, and have the opportunity to engage in live Q&A. Interested developers may register […]
Read MoreCloudFront Management Tool Roundup
Amazon CloudFront was designed to make it really easy to distribute content to users at high speed with low latency. Here are some new tools which provide a nice end-user interface to CloudFront. The newest Freeware release of the CloudBerry Explorer now includes CloudFront support. You can create and manage distributions, assign CNAMES, and even […]
Read MoreManage Amazon EC2 With New Web-Based AWS Management Console
Today were announcing the availability of the Web-based AWS Management Console, which in this first release provides management of your Amazon EC2 environment via a point-and-click interface. A number of management tools already exist: for example a popular Firefox extension known as Elasticfox; however as you read more of this post I believe you’ll agree […]
Read MoreCloud Computing and Biomedical Research Roundtable in San Diego
Cirrhus9 (mentioned yesterday) and Pfizer are co-sponsors of a roundtable discussion on the topic of cloud computing and biomedical research. Amazon CTO Werner Vogels will be in attendance at this unique event, where they’ll discuss the emerging demands of biomedical research and how they can be met using cloud computing. The roundtable will be help […]
Read MoreAWS Links – Wednesday, January 7, 2009
As usual, I’ve got plenty to blog about. Here’s a glimpse at some of the interesting things that have recently landed in my inbox. On Thursday, January 8th, Information Week and Amazon will present a Webcast titled How To Plug Into The Cloud. Attendees will learn how Eli Lilly has used Amazon’s EC2 servers and […]
Read MoreBits For Sale – The New Amazon S3 Requester Pays Model
We rolled out a powerful new feature for Amazon S3 in the final hours of 2008. This new feature, dubbed Requester Pays, works at the level of an S3 bucket. If the bucket’s owner flags it as Requester Pays, then all data transfer and request costs are paid by the party accessing the data. The […]
Read MorePlease Vote: AWS and AWS-Powered Applications Are Crunchies Finalists
AWS is a finalist in two categories of the Crunchies awards, Best Enterprise and Best Overall. In addition to that, AWS-powered applications from Animoto and SlideRocket are candidates for Best Design; eBuddy and Fotonauts are up for Best International; DropBox for Best New Startup of 2008; and Twitter (competing with AWS) for Best Overall. GoodGuide […]
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