Category: Launch

The Amazon SQS team recently released a new version of their service. Per the SQS release notes, the new features include: New function to get the approximate number of messages in a queue. Ability to change the visibility timeout of a message. Ability to delete a queue even if it is not empty. More flexibility […]

A month or so ago, I attended a SOA Conference and Business Process Management Conference (there were multiple conferences in one venue), put on by the BrainStorm Group in Chicago. Lots of serious enterprise architect types attended the conference, where they were able to share their experience and learnings with others, as well as hear […]

In this new video (Flash or QuickTime), AWS developer Steve Odom shows how to use Elastic Rails and Capistrano to create and deploy Ruby on Rails applications.   — Jeff; PS: The first commenter asked us to add a Pause button to the video presentation earlier today, and we have done as requested. You won’t […]

Alex Iskold has written a very lucid summary of Werner Vogels’ Etech keynote from earlier today. Of course, I agree with his summary: AWS is continuing to impress. Amazon is now focused on amplifying the customer success stories and turning that buzz into more customers. Given the pricing and simplicity of AWS, it appears that […]

Earlier today, Tyler Hall of Sitening announced that they were releasing a set of open source PHP interface classes for Amazon S3, Amazon EC2, Amazon SQS, and the Amazon Mechanical Turk. The classes are hosted in Google Code, and can be downloaded here. Tyler also let me know that these classes were used to build […]

I just received word that a new version of the Amazon E-Commerce Service has been released. Here are the newest features: Ability to search the Amazon.com Industrial & Scientific Products catalog. A new search index, All, with the ability to perform a keyword search on all product categories with up to 5 pages of results. […]

A new release of ECS 4.0 was rolled out earlier today. There are two new features: A new response group, OfferListings, was added for all locales. This response group returns somewhat lighter version of the data provided by the Offers group. Data for the French locale now includes the French waste tax. — Jeff;

Earlier today Jeff barr told me that he uploaded all his photos to amazon S3 using S3Fox Organizer. S3Fox Organizer, developed by Rahul Jonna, is a firefox extension for managing your objects in Amazon S3. We had blogged about it earlier. Motivated by the number of hits he received, Rahul released a new version (v0.3) […]

Minutes ago we rolled out a major upgrade to the Amazon Web Services Resource Center. Here’s what’s new: Product Centers – Each web service category is now a self-contained portal for that web service, complete with boxes and RSS feeds for the newest and most popular resources in the category. There are also “go-to” buttons […]

The newest release of ECS provides both an API and a set of RSS feeds to allow developers direct access to promotions. What are promotions? Glad you asked! Promotions are short-term special deals that help customers to make purchases sooner rather than later, and which allow merchants to provide more attractive offers in a competitive […]