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You Need Glacier Im going to bet that you (or your organization) spend a lot of time and a lot of money archiving mission-critical data. No matter whether youre currently using disk, optical media or tape-based storage, its probably a more complicated and expensive process than youd like which has you spending time maintaining hardware, […]

Let’s take a quick look at what happened in AWS-land last week: Monday, August 13 We updated AWS Direct Connect with new locations and AWS Management Console support. We published another AWS Report, this one featuring Kate Matsudaira, CTO of Decide.com. Thursday, August 16 We added additional features to Amazon RDS for Oracle Database, including support for running in […]

Let’s take a quick look at what happened in AWS-land last week: Monday, August 6 AWS Elastic MapReduce now supports Hadoop 1.0.3 including HDFS over HTTP. Wednesday, August 8 We released some EBS Provisioned IOPS resources including a benchmarking guide. Thursday, August 9 We reduced the minimum throughput for DynamoDB tables. Stay tuned for another exciting week! — Jeff;   Modified […]

I interviewed Kate Matsudaira, CTO of Decide.com, for The AWS Report. Kate told me how Decide.com uses AWS to implement  a next-generation online (web and mobile) shopping experience using terabytes of data pulled from thousands of sources. Behind the scenes, Decide.com uses a number of AWS services including EC2, S3, and Elastic MapReduce. Because they […]

Our customers have been making great use of Amazon DynamoDB‘s provisioned throughput model! They are provisioning tables that handle hundreds of thousands of reads or writes per second to millions and even billions of items. They are adjusting provisioned throughput on the fly, in order to cope with changes in requirements, and paying only for […]

I recently interviewed Sharon Chiarella for The AWS Report. Sharon is an Amazon Vice President with responsibility for the Amazon Mechanical Turk. After we talked about the Mechanical Turk concept in general terms (“a marketplace for work,”) we zoomed in and talked about the kinds of work that is being done and who’s doing it: […]

Let’s take a quick look at what happened in AWS-land last week: Monday, July 30 Our friends at Netflix published the code for their Chaos Monkey, a member of their Simian Army of testing tools. You can now buy EC2 Reserved Instances for Red Hat Enterprise Linux. I posted the newest episode of The AWS Report with […]

Let’s take a quick look at what happened in AWS-land last week: Tuesday, July 24 I blogged about some improvements to the EC2 tab of the AWS Management Console. IDC published a commissioned white paper to show that the business value of AWS accelerates over time. Thursday, July 26 We published four new CloudFormation templates for Windows — SharePoint, […]