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A couple of us in the office were chatting about VC portfolios. As we talked, we realized that several firms have asked us to speak to their portfolio companies–sometimes as a group, and sometimes one at a time. So we’re extending the offer to all of you. If you want your member companies to learn […]

I am just about set for my next UK trip, but there are still a few open issues: I have an appointment labeled “Lunch at Wagamana” on the 19th, but no other details. Please add details to the Wiki page or send a note to evangelists at amazon.com . I have some open time in […]

Just a quick post to act as a heads up on two additions to the AWS Developer Resource Center. First, I recently interviewed Doug Kaye, who is CTO of GigaVox Media, about their experience with Amazon Simple Queue Service (aka Amazon SQS). The interview runs approximately 9 minutes, and offers some insight by Doug. I […]

The first-ever AWS Developer Chat in Second Life was a big success and a whole lot of fun to boot. We had about 20 people (avatars) in attendance and we talked about Amazon S3, EC2, and all kinds of other related subjects. Here’s a picture taken by my friend Betsy Weber (who has a really […]

Middlepost is an online document collaboration and storage tool powered by Amazon EC2, SQS, and S3. The site manages the entire creation, revision, and signing process for documents. During creation and revision, Middlepost tracks all of the changes and comments associated the document, supporting both internal and external collaborators. Each collaborator has a profile with […]

I blogged about Sitening.com’s Live Blogging Experiment yesterday. They were trying to capture the live feeds from Steve Job’s Keynote at WWDC 2007 Event. For the past several years, any site which live-blogged the event would become hopelessly buried in traffic. They built a small admin tool that periodically encapsulates the content every minute or […]

I have bookmarked a few recent announcements of changes and additions to our line of web services. Here’s a quick recap: Amazon S3 now supports signed requests for vanity domains and there’s new sample code which shows you how to do this. Also, the prohibition against transmitting objects with sizes between 2 and 4 GB […]

We have openings for Technical Sales Representatives on the Amazon Web Services Team, based in Seattle. Here is the official job description: Technical Sales Representative – Amazon Web Services Introduction Amazon Web Services (AWS) is a fast-growing and strategic division of Amazon.com that is tasked with building out a web services technology platform and working […]