AWS News Blog
Sonian Archive SA2 – Data Archiving Service in the Amazon Cloud
Sonian Networks has completed their early-adopter program and is about to launch their new Amazon-powered data archiving service, the Sonian Archive SA2. I spoke with their executive team last week and was very intrigued by what I heard. With the exception of one external watchdog server, the SA2 service is totally contained within the Amazon […]
Read MoreAWS For Facebook Applications
Developers have used the Amazon Web Services to create highly scalable applications for Facebook including Haikoo Zoo, Booze Mail, iLike, We’re Related, and SocialMoth Secrets. AWS is an ideal hosting environment for these applications. Developers can start small, test and prove out their ideas, and then rapidly add processing and storage resources as they develop […]
Read MoreProto.in Startup Event in Second Life This Week (Updated)
I will be speaking (via Second Life) at the Proto.in conference on Friday night and I hope to see you there. I will be speaking at 11:59 PM Friday (this time has changed several times) and will also be hanging out on the island on Friday as time permits. You can read more about this […]
Read MoreIncreasing Amazon S3 Data Transfer Performance
The Amazon S3 team is now beta-testing support for an important low-level networking feature which has the potential to significantly increase the performance of large data transfers to and from S3, particularly (but not limited to) for long distance data transfers. In particular, there is a new beta endpoint which supports the RFC 1323 model […]
Read MoreNew Zealand and Australia
Are you a developer in Australia or New Zealand? In February I’ll be visiting New Zealand and Australia on the first-ever Amazon Web Services evangelism tour. I’m really excited about the trip–especially because I lived in New Zealand briefly many years ago, and have not had the opportunity to visit since. So far there is […]
Read MoreWhat’s the Difference Between Amazon FPS and Amazon DevPay?
Weve heard from a few folks that its not clear what the difference is between some of the Amazon Web Service offerings. This is a very short post to try to clarify two services, plus a product feature. Like most short descriptions, I am short-changing the rich feature set of each offering. Visit aws.amazon.com for […]
Read MoreEC2 Firefox Extension is now Open Source
The very cool EC2 Firefox Extension is now an open source project on SourceForge! The extension makes it really easy to launch and manage Amazon EC2 instances. After creating your keypairs and security groups, you can simply right-click on any of the listed AMIs (Amazon Machine Images) and choose to launch one or more instances. […]
Read MoreHappy Holidays
Within our Developer Relations team at Amazon, any public picture of a team member is considered fair game for use in parodies. Look what just showed up in my Inbox: Mike, Jinesh and I, would like to wish you some Happy Holidays and offer our thanks for reading (and responding to) our blog posts. We […]
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