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AWS Week in Review – May 21, 2012

Let’s take a quick look at what happened in AWS-land last week:

Monday, May 21	AWS customer Pinterest released an architecture update, reviewing their use of EC2 and S3 to scale up and scale down daily to cope with variable traffic, with hourly costs that range from $15 to $52 per hour. We released new Cloud Reference Architectures for Online Games, Media Sharing, Ad Serving, Disaster Recovery, and Log Analysis.
Tuesday, May 22	You can now explore your DynamoDB tables using the AWS Management Console. JD Edwards Enterprise One is now available in the AWS Marketplace. Infor announced that the Infor10 business cloud is now available on AWS.
Wednesday, May 23	We announced that the AWS Summit will be coming to Europe. June 18th in Paris, and June 20th in Berlin.
Thursday, May 24	Episode 3 of The AWS Report – Dave Ward and EC2 Spot Instances was released. We posted the recording of my Backup and Recovery for Linux with Amazon S3 webinar.
Friday, May 25	We redesigned the AWS Global Infrastructure page and also added a new table that lists AWS service offerings by region. We launched the VM Export Service for Amazon EC2. The AWS Simple Monthly Calculator is now available in seven languages. We also improved VPC, DynamoDB, and RDS support.

Stay tuned for another exciting week!

— Jeff;

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