When you thought it couldn’t be cheaper to start running a server on EC2 Amazon announced micro instances. You can get the micro instance for windows ($0.03/hr) and linux($0.02hr) with 613 MB of RAM. If you get a reserved instance the price drops even lower.
Read morePayPal Soap API
I got to “play” with the PayPal SOAP API last week for a website I was building on. It was very easy to work with and I was surprised at how quick I could could get a checkout page going in ASP.NET/C#. It could have been quicker but some of the documentation on the PayPal site was […]
Read moreAmazon 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 Wireless Website
Amazon has rolled out a new website specializing in cell phones and wireless service plans. The site offers great deals for new activations and upgrades. Click here to check it out.
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 moreSkype on the iPhone
Last week Skype rolled out an application for the iPhone. If you are on a WiFi network you can make calls to other skype users or phones. I have used it to make phone calls to land lines a couple of times the quality of the call was really good. The main problem is that […]
Read moreAmazon S3 Announces Temporary Lower Transfer-In Costs
In celebration of S3’s 3rd anniversary Amazon has announced the reduction of the transfer-in costs for data from $0.10/GB to $0.03GB for April – May 2009. Now is the time to transfer all the home videos and music that isn’t backed up else where.
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 […]
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