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Programs have always been good at dealing with highly structured, very uniform data. They sometime stumble when asked to deal with data that is irregular, unstructured, or otherwise messy in some way. Normalizing data that came from a casual, real-world source where people are allowed to enter free-form text can be tedious and expensive. A […]

The judges have spent countless hours scrutinizing the entrants in the AWS Start-Up Challenge 2010 competition and have selected fifteen finalists representing entrants from the Americas, Asia, and Europe. The judges looked at applications, business models, management teams, and use of AWS. From the group of semi-finalists, seven finalists will be inivited to Silicon Valley […]

We announced the successful completion of our first SAS 70 Type II audit just about a year ago. Earlier this year I talked about an application that had successfully completed the FISMA Low assessment and then received the necessary Authority to Operate. Today I am happy to announce that we have been awarded ISO 27001 […]

The topic of “Licensing in the Cloud” is probably the most interesting business-technology topic, according to me. If you are an enterprise customer looking to migrate your applications to the cloud, licensing is probably one of the first topics you would want to discuss. The Amazon Web Services team is working with many third-party ISVs […]

Can I ask you some questions? Have you ever been forced to repeatedly try to upload a file across an unreliable network connection? In most cases there’s no easy way to pick up from where you left off and you need to restart the upload from the beginning. Are you frustrated because your company has […]

I’ll be brief. Two quick yet important Amazon CloudFront announcements: First, we’ve removed the beta tag from CloudFront and it is now in full production. During the beta period we listened to our customers and added a number of important features including Invalidation, a default root object, HTTPS access, private content, streamed content, private streamed […]

Amazon CloudFront uses an ever-growing network of edge locations to give your users high speed, low latency access to your content, regardless of where they happen to live. Until now, CloudFront could serve up content from Amazon S3. In content-distribution lingo, S3 was the only supported origin server. You would store your web objects (web […]

Late last month I spent some time on the phone with John Dunham and Steve Hazel of Sauce Labs to learn more about their Sauce OnDemand testing service. The product is built around the popular Selenium testing tool and can actually make use of existing Selenium scripts for functionality and performance testing. John and Steve […]