Tag: Amazon S3

Our customers needed better ways to model their applications and estimate their costs. The flexible nature of on-demand scalable computing allows you pick and choose the services you like and only pay for those. Hence to give our customers an opportunity to estimate their costs, we have redesigned our current AWS Simple Monthly Calculator The […]

I will be in China and India starting next week. Apart from other meetings and presentations to user group, this time, I will be taking up 3-hour workshops. These workshops are targeted at architects and technical decision makers and attendees will get a chance to play with core AWS infrastructure services. If you are a […]

I blogged about the new AWS Import/Export feature this past spring and told you how it allows you to load any amount of data into Amazon S3 by simply shipping the data to us on a compatible storage device. The response to that announcement has been excellent and our customers are now sending us terabytes […]

Update (June 15, 2018) – Since the launch of this service almost a decade ago, we have launched many other data transfer services that may be easier for you to use including AWS Snowball, AWS Snowball Edge, AWS Snowmobile, and AWS Direct Connect. Many years ago, professor Andy Tanenbaum wrote the following: Never underestimate the […]

Amazon S3 is now three years old and busier than ever. Just a year ago, there were 18 billion objects in S3. As of today there are 52 billion, a near three-fold increase. To celebrate S3’s third birthday, we have some special pricing for you. From now until the end of June 2009, uploads to […]

Catching up on a variety of interesting topics today. Some of these have been lingering in my inbox for quite a while — others are hot off the wire. In every case though, the result of innovation continues to amaze and impress! Today I am writing about An Amazon S3 Publishing Plugin for Expression Encoder, […]

One of my favorite parts of my job is meeting people and watching them innovate with Cloud technology. So I want to tell you about a recent weekend trip to the Bay Area. Last weekend I was in Mountain View, CA to attend OpenSocials WeekendApps event. This was held at the Googleplex, and was designed […]

We rolled out a powerful new feature for Amazon S3 in the final hours of 2008. This new feature, dubbed Requester Pays, works at the level of an S3 bucket. If the bucket’s owner flags it as Requester Pays, then all data transfer and request costs are paid by the party accessing the data. The […]