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You can now use the AWS Import/Export service to import and export data into and out of Amazon S3 buckets in the Asia Pacific (Singapore) Region via portable storage devices with eSATA USB 2.0, and SATA interfaces. You can ship us a device loaded with data and we’ll copy it to the S3 bucket of […]

Felix Geisendrfer of Debuggable wrote in to tell me about Transloadit. He told me that they now support real-time video encoding using a number of Amazon EC2 instances. Whereas prior transcoding solutions waited for the entire video to be uploaded, Transloadit runs the encoding process directly on the incoming data stream, using the popular node.js […]

I became cognizant of DNS30 during the private beta test of Amazon Route 53.I own quite a few personal domains for use by me and my family and I was looking forward to managing all of the DNS entries from one location. I tried it out and it worked just fine. In order to use […]

A number of our customers want to store very large files in Amazon S3 — scientific or medical data, high resolution video content, backup files, and so forth. Until now, they have had to store and reference the files as separate chunks of 5 gigabytes (GB) or less. So, when a customer wanted to access […]

The Mechanical Turk now has a blog of its very own. The new Mechanical Turk blog will be used to share information with Mechanical Turk Requesters, Workers, and fans of the Mechanical Turk marketplace. It will include product announcements, how-to guides, best practices, case studies, and examples of how businesses are using Mechanical Turk for […]

In 1995 I registered my first domain name and put it online. Back then, registration was expensive and complex. Before you could even register a domain you had to convince at least two of your friends to host the Domain Name Service (DNS) records for it. These days, domain registration is inexpensive and simple. DNS […]

We just added a new BatchDeleteAttributes call to Amazon SimpleDB and you can read all about it in the SimpleDB Developer Guide. This new call will make it easier and quicker for you to delete multiple attributes or multiple items with one request. SimpleDB processes this call more efficiently than it does a series of […]

You can now use Amazon CloudWatch to monitor your EC2 instances at no additional charge. CPU load, disk I/O, and network I/O metrics are collected at five minute intervals and stored for two weeks. We call this Basic Monitoring. You can also choose more Detailed Monitoring (one minute intervals) at a cost of $0.015 / […]