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AWS Import/Export is a fast and reliable alternative to sending large volumes of data across the internet. You can send us a blank storage device and we’ll copy the contents of one or more Amazon S3 buckets to it before shipping it back to you. Or, you can send us a storage device full of […]

We would like to wish all our readers a Happy and a “scalable” Thanksgiving! Folks from Vembu created a really funny parody – “Cloud Cloud MayBe” – its a da rap intro to da cloud. This video brought me a smile. Happy Thanksgiving! — The Amazon Web Services Team

Here’s a summary of the AWS announcements that we made last night: Important updates to our Security Center including a revised AWS Security White Paper and the results of our SAS 70 type II audit. A plan to bring AWS to datacenters in Asia. Selection of the finalists in the 2009 Start-Up Challenge. Congratulations to […]

AWS user Bob Wise (VP of Engineering for Melodeo, producer of nuTsie) asked me to pass along some information about his upcoming session at the BlackBerry Developer Conference (November 9-12 in San Francisco). Here’s the scoop: Developers who want to build scalable, cost-effective cloud-based solutions will be interested in this session. Learn about Melodeo’s client/server […]

I was checking out the archive for this blog and realized that I wrote my first post exactly five years ago! In that time I’ve written posts to introduce each of our new services. Here’s a quick recap of the highlights: We started out with the November 2004 introduction of the Amazon Simple Queue Service […]

iSyndica is a digital media distribution platform built on the top of AWS. They help digital content producers such as photographers and videographers distribute their work to multiple agencies where they can sell their work. The iSyndica Elevator Pitch does a nice job of explaining this “Upload Once, Sell Everywhere” platform. They shared their love […]

We polled the attendees at a recent Amazon SimpleDB webinar and found that over half of them didn’t know that they could start using the service for free. That’s a shame because SimpleDB is easy to use, scales easily to handle high request rates, and is available in our US and EU regions. You can […]

I love to speak to user groups because there’s little time pressure and plenty of time to engage with the audience. As part of last week’s very pleasant trip to Iowa, I spoke to the CIALUG (Central Iowa Linux User’s Group).We met in a very cool coworking space called the Impromptu Studio. The audience wasn’t […]