Updated: 2012-02-27 15:59:10
Focus on Scalability & Cloud Architectures
The Plat_Forms contest has been around in Germany since 2007. Its hallmark is celebrating the diversity and strength of various development languages (Java EE, .NET, PHP, Perl, Python, Ruby, etc.). This year, the focus of the contest is entirely on cloud computing and scalability. Ulrich Stärk, the program organizer, explained “AWS is technology agnostic, thus allowing for a fair comparison of the individual platforms. Apart from that, AWS is the market leader in IaaS services, thus making a perfect choice for us since we can expect that a lot of developers have either used AWS already or are interested in trying it now.”
Updated: 2012-02-22 23:50:36
Today's guest blogger Rahul Pathak, a Senior Product Manager on the AWS Database Team. Rahul has some news to share. -- Jeff; Amazon ElastiCache is now available in two additional Regions: US West (Oregon) and South America (Sao Paulo). Caching...
Updated: 2012-02-22 07:14:54
Simple Workflow Today we are introducing the Amazon Simple Workflow service, SWF for short. This new service gives you the ability to build and run distributed, fault-tolerant applications that span multiple systems (cloud-based, on-premise, or both). Amazon Simple Workflow coordinates...
Updated: 2012-02-21 23:54:57
Esri is a leading provider of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) software and geo-database management applications. Their powerful mapping solutions have been used by Governments, industry, academics, and NGOs for nearly 30 years (read their history to learn more). Over the...
Updated: 2012-02-16 17:53:27
Our application relies on accurately analyzing client event logs (as opposed to web logs) to extract trends and enable other rich features for our users. To give you a sense of the scale at which we run these analyses, we literally go through millions of events per hour, which translates to as many as 250+ Amazon Elastic MapReduce nodes on any given day. Since we are dealing with event logs, generated by our users from the various platforms on which they access our app (Android, iPhone, iPad, etc.), our logs grow in proportion to our user base.
Updated: 2012-02-12 02:47:23
Earlier today, GigaOM published a cost comparison of self-hosting vs. hosting on AWS. I wanted to bring to your attention a few quick issues that we saw with this analysis: Lower Costs in Other AWS Regions - The comparison used...
Updated: 2012-02-07 05:46:20
As you can tell from my recent post on Amazon S3 Growth for 2011, our customers are uploading new objects to Amazon S3 at an incredible rate. We continue to innovate on your behalf to drive down storage costs and...
Updated: 2012-02-06 21:06:51
We launched Amazon DynamoDB with a live video feed that was very well-attended. If you didn't get a chance to watch at the time, you can do so now: You may also enjoy this short video featuring Werner Vogels, James...
Updated: 2012-02-03 03:59:26
Looking Back In 2011 we added a total of seven edge locations to Amazon CloudFront and Route 53. We also added lots of new features, as I documented last year. Looking Forward Our newest edge locations are located in Milan,...
