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Today’s guest post is brought to you by Doug Grismore, Director of Storage Operations for AWS. Doug has some useful performance tips and tricks that will help you to get the best possible performance from Amazon S3. There’s also information about a special S3 hiring event that will take place later this week in Seattle. […]

Today’s guest blogger Rahul Pathak, a Senior Product Manager on the AWS Database Team. Rahul has some news to share. — Jeff; Amazon ElastiCache is now available in two additional Regions: US West (Oregon) and South America (Sao Paulo). Caching systems perform best when they are right next to your application servers, so were excited […]

Simple Workflow Today we are introducing the Amazon Simple Workflow service, SWF for short. This new service gives you the ability to build and run distributed, fault-tolerant applications that span multiple systems (cloud-based, on-premise, or both). Amazon Simple Workflow coordinates the flow of synchronous or asynchronous tasks (logical application steps) so that you can focus […]

Looking Back In 2011 we added a total of seven edge locations to Amazon CloudFront and Route 53. We also added lots of new features, as I documented last year. Looking Forward Our newest edge locations are located in Milan, Italy and Osaka, Japan. This brings our total worldwide location count to 26 (see the […]

As of the end of 2011, there are 762 billion (762,000,000,000) objects in Amazon S3. We process over 500,000 requests per second for these objects at peak times. Here’s the annual growth chart: This represents year-over-year growth of 192%; S3 grew faster last year than it did in any year since it launched in 2006. […]

Today’s guest blogger is Nihar Bihani, a Product Manager on the Amazon CloudFront team. — Jeff; After we launched Amazon CloudFront in November 2008, customers began asking for a way to block access to their content being delivered. We heard a variety of reasons why customers wanted to have detailed control over who is able […]

We want to make it very easy for you to be able to store any amount of semistructured data and to be able to read, write, and modify it quickly, efficiently, and with predictable performance. We don’t want you to have to worry about servers, disks, replication, failover, monitoring, software installation, configuration, or updating, hardware […]

Update (March 2020) – In the years that have passed since this post was published, the number of rules that you can define per bucket has been raised from 100 to 1000. Amazon S3 is a great way to store files for the short or for the long term. If you use S3 to store […]