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There’s now a new and somewhat easier way to write SimpleDB queries. In addition to SimpleDB’s existing query language, you can now use select statements which look very similar to standard SQL (Structured Query Language). We made some small changes and additions to the language in order to accomodate SimpleDB’s unique multi-valued attribute model. Here […]

.post20081217img { float:right; margin-left:10px; margin-bottom:10px; border:1px solid black; } .post20081217li { clear:both; padding-bottom:10px; } There are plenty of really good links in my inbox. Here are some of the best: The Oracle TechBlog has the slides from the recent “Oracle in the Cloud” webinar. I know that lots of you have been waiting for these! […]

Twilio founder Jeff Lawson stopped by Amazon headquarters yesterday for a show and tell session. Twilio provides a simple yet powerful way to build highly scalable telephony applications. Of course, Twilio itself runs on Amazon EC2 and stores data in Amazon S3. A Twilio application is simply a phone-activated web application. When the application’s phone […]

I spoke with the good folks at JumpBox earlier this week. They told me that they are now supporting Amazon EC2 with a lineup of 12 public AMIs (Amazon Machine Images) containing pre-built and pre-configured open source applications. You can launch blogging tools, CRM tools, development tools, and lots more. You can follow the directions […]

Bizo is a B2B advertising network running entirely on top of AWS. They needed a GUI built on top of SimpleDB and decided to extend the Firefox plugin suite with the addition of SDB Tool. The new Bizo SDB Tool provides a nice visual interface to Amazon SimpleDB in the form of a Firefox plugin. […]

Steve from MindTouch emailed me a while back about a really interesting write-up on how they moved their Wiki farm to Amazon EC2.Steve said that in the spirit of helping others do the same, we did a complete write up about it. The article includes an architecture diagram, but more importantly it also drills into […]

You can now launch Amazon EC2 instances in Europe! We’ve created a new region for Europe, separate and distinct from the existing region in the United States.For fault tolerance, data separation, and stability, each EC2 region is an entity unto itself; issues within one region won’t affect the other one. This means that Amazon Machine […]

Amazon DevPay just transitioned from beta to general availability. If you aren’t familiar with this Amazon Web Service, Amazon DevPay is a simple-to-use online billing and account management service that makes it easy to sell applications that are built in, or run on top of, Amazon Web Services. It is designed to make On-Demand business models […]