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The new “Pay Now” widget builds on top of the base-level payment functionality offered by the Amazon Flexible Payments Service (FPS) to make things very easy for web developers who would like to accept Amazon Payments on their site. Customers can pay by clicking on a Pay Now button or by selecting Amazon Payments as […]

We capped off the AWS Start-Up Challenge with an award dinner at the W Hotel in Seattle and a good time was had by all. Following a day-long session with the finalists at Amazon Headquarters, we adjourned to the W Hotel for the next phase. The 13 representatives from the 7 finalists participated in a […]

Ok race fans, now it is your turn to participate in the next phase of the AWS Start-Up Challenge! We’ve interviewed each of the finalists, created a video, and put them up here. You can see them at work and hear them talk about their products in their own words. I think that you will […]

I will be giving an AWS talk in Second Life on Friday, November 30 at Noon PST. The talk will take place at the amphitheater on Dr Dobbs Island. This will be a genuine “talk,” with streamed audio, so make sure that your speakers are working! I am planning to talk about web-scale computing, the […]

We received an incredible number of submissions for the AWS Start-Up Challenge! We’d like to offer our congratulations to all seven of the finalists and we’d also like to thank everyone who submitted an entry. The quality, creativity, and diversity of thought present in the entries was beyond impressive. In the next couple of weeks […]

The Tokyo Linux User Group will be conducting a combined real-life / Second Life meeting this weekend. Lars Kotthoff will be giving a presentation on a Ruby script he has developed for backup using Amazon S3 . The presentation will be given in English. The Second Life portion of the meeting will take place in […]

Earlier today, Red Hat announced that Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL for short) is now available in beta form on Amazon EC2.  This agreement unites Red Hat’s network management, technical support, and application library with the on-demand scalability of the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud, allowing customers to create robust, reliable systems which can easily respond […]

Are you a developer based in Portugal? I’ll be in Lisbon on 13 November for the Codebits conference. I’ll be there a day early (12 November) if you’d like to meet for coffee, or have me brief your team on Amazon Web Services, etc. Simply add your request to the AWS Evangelism Wiki at http://evangelists.wetpaint.com/page/MikeCulverEuropeFall2007. […]