Updated: 2011-09-30 06:49:05
I've been making a point of telling my live audiences about AWS CloudFormation lately. Many large-scale AWS customers are starting to appreciate the fact that they can describe and instantiate entire application stacks using parameterized templates (see my original CloudFormation...
Updated: 2011-09-30 06:34:15
We've just added an edge location in Brazil (number 20 to be precise) to Amazon CloudFront and Amazon Route 53. This is our first edge location in South America. The new location will speed up references to static and streamed...
Updated: 2011-09-28 17:43:57
I'll be running a Big Data Hackathon at the SPLASH/OOPSLA Conference in Portland, Oregon next month. Hackathons are participatory event. You don't show up to watch or to hang out; you show up to lead or to join a team...
Updated: 2011-09-27 03:06:31
I never get tired of writing posts that announce price decreases on the various AWS services! Today, we are reducing the price to host a set of DNS records for a domain (which we call a hosted zone) using Amazon...
Updated: 2011-09-26 22:31:22
We introduced the Amazon Linux AMI in beta form about a year ago with the goal of providing a simple, stable, and secure Linux environment for server-focused workloads. We've been really happy with the adoption we've seen so far, and...
Updated: 2011-09-25 03:35:21
Today, I am speaking with Stuart Hall, CTO of Filter Squad, a lean startup, and creator of, among others, the Discovr App and Discovr Music for the iPhone & iPad.
Updated: 2011-09-22 15:26:49
We crunched some numbers and found out that 70% of the 50 most Facebook apps leverage one or more AWS services. Many of their developers rely on AWS to provide them with compute, network, storage, database and messaging services on a pay-as-you-go basis. In addition to Zynga’s popular FarmVille and CafeWorld, Playfish and Wooga, many of the most exciting and popular Facebook apps are also running on AWS. Here are some examples: RootMusic, Funzio, and 50Cubes.
Updated: 2011-09-22 03:07:56
Within Amazon, we often use the phrase "drinking our own champagne" to describe our practice of using our own products and services to prove them out under actual working conditions. We build products that we can use ourselves. We believe...
Updated: 2011-09-21 22:33:30
Do you use EC2 Spot Instances in your application? Do you understand how they work and how they can save you a lot of money? If you answered no to any of these questions, then you are behind the times...
Updated: 2011-09-21 06:05:00
Over the summer months, we'd like to share a few stories from startups around the world: what are they working on and how they are using the cloud to get things done. Today I’m speaking to Jonathan and Thomas, two...
