Earlier this month Amazon announced that you can now use RDS with SQL Server. I have been using RDS for MySQL about 9 months now and really like. It automates many of the administrative tasks, but gives you a backup within an availability zone. This will allow me to suggest AWS as a hosting option […]
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Amazon CloudFront Invalidation Feature
At the end of August Amazon announced that CloudFront now has an invalidation feature which can clear the files from the edge locations before the expiration period. The other day I got to try out this new feature when I had a file I needed to update and didn’t really want to wait the 1hr […]
Read moreAmazon Cloudfront 1hr TTL
I just recently read that you can now set the TTL of an object on Amazon’s Cloudfront to 1 hr instead of the 24 hr minimum that it used to be. I only found this out because I was reading through the discussion forums looking to see if there was an ETA of when this […]
Read moreAmazon Product Advertising API
I have been using Amazon’s EC2, S3 and Cloud Front a lot over about the last 9 months. Last week I just started looking at Amazon’s Associates program for some display advertising. While looking the info I discovered the Product Advertising API. In my quest to improve my ASP.NET/C# skills I decided to put together […]
Read moreAmazon Elastic MapReduce
Amazon anounces Elastic MapReduce. Amazon Elastic MapReduce is a web service that enables businesses, researchers, data analysts, and developers to easily and cost-effectively process vast amounts of data. It utilizes a hosted Hadoop framework running on the web-scale infrastructure of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) and Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3). If you […]
Read moreAmazon Cloudfront
In the last couple of weeks I have been working with Amazon’s Cloudfront to deliver small javascript files. It has turned out to be a pretty good experience. The only problem we have had so far is that you can not invalidate the cache on the CDN servers and force them to immediately fetch new […]
Read moreAmazon EC2 Running Windows Server: Coming Soon
Amazon has announced that later this fall that they will offer the ability to run Windows Server and SQL Server in the EC2 environment.
Read moreAmazon Getting into the CDN business
Amazon announced that it is expecting to roll out a Content Delivery Network before the end of the year. As a user you will store your files on S3 and then make an API call and get a new domain name to use for your web pages. This is different from the functionality already […]
Read moreAmazon S3 Availability Event: July 20, 2008
It is good to see that Amazon released a pretty detailed statement detailing the events of the S3 outage on 7/20. Some people have been complaining about the stability of the environment, but I think it has been overall really good. When there are problems they are fixed extremely quickly and if there was going […]
Read moreAmazon Announces Premium Support Options for Web Services (EC2, S3, etc)
Today Amazon announced that they will start offering premium support options for their web services. AWS Customers who sign up for AWS Premium Support will receive personalized technical assistance from the Amazon Web Services team, whenever and as frequently as their business demands. The service offers support for operational issues or technical questions during development, […]
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