Tag: Cool Sites

In the past we’ve blogged about Digital Bucket, which is a great app for storing files in Amazon S3. I’m mentioning them again because they’ve added all sorts of new features. If you are a Windows user, I think you’ll find this to be intuitive and seamless! A few of new goodies are as follows: […]

In the midst of one of my trips to London last year, I received a last-minute invitation to speak to a room full of entrepreneurs at a venture capital firm. I was happy to oblige and talked to them about EC2, S3, and so forth. One of the entrepreneurs in attendance was Andra Tori of […]

Jay Ridgeway from ShareThis.com co-presented with me at ETech recently. We were telling a packed room about Amazon SimpleDB, and Jay was specifically telling folks about how ShareThis implemented this Web service. You should check out their site–it’s a great way to share content and allow others to drive traffic to your site. I found […]

My inbox is overflowing with great things that deserve blog posts of their very own, but since they come in so fast I am going to summarize them in this catchup post. Here’s what I’ve seen recently: Dmitriy Samovskiy wrote about Building a Multisourced Infrastructure Using OpenVPN in the most recent issue of Linux Journal. […]

Nik Rao of Orglex wrote to tell me about his site and about how they are using Amazon EC2, S3, and the Alexa Web Information Service to build their site. Orglex is focused on providing information services to industry professionals in vertical markets such as health insurance, clinical trials, and venture capital. Their service has […]

I want to make sure that you are aware of the Success Stories section of our web site! Within that section you can learn about how companies large and small are using our Utility Computing Platform (EC2, S3, SimpleDB, and SQS), the Amazon Associates Web Service, the Amazon Mechanical Turk and the Alexa Web Information […]

S3Stat is a log analysis tool for Amazon S3. This very helpful tool uses the log files generated by S3, analyzes them using Webalizer, and generates a variety of insightful and colorful reports. I have been using S3Stat on one of my own buckets for the last couple of months and have been pleased with […]

The unpredictable nature of the demand for rich media files, coupled with the amount of bandwidth needed to deal with a video that suddenly “goes viral” combine to create the circumstances for an event that I sometimes refer to as a “success disaster.” This happens when you create something cool and hope that it will […]