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AWS Management Console Improvements - Tablet and Mobile Support
— Managing your AWS resources has become easier and more direct over the years! Let's do a quick recap before we dig in: — We launched Amazon SQS (2004) and Amazon S3 (2006) as pure APIs, with no tool support whatsoever.
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Amazon Glacier: Archival Storage for One Penny Per GB Per Month
— You Need Glacier — I'm going to bet that you (or your organization) spend a lot of time and a lot of money archiving mission-critical data. No matter whether you're currently using disk, optical media or tape-based storage …
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Amazon S3 - 905 Billion Objects and 650,000 Requests/Second
— At the end of the first quarter of 2012, there were 905 billion objects in Amazon S3. We routinely handle 650,000 requests per second for those objects with occasional peaks substantially above that number. Here is the latest chart:
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Amazon Simple Workflow - Cloud-Based Workflow Management
— 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).
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Amazon Simple Notification Service Now Supports SMS
— Today we are adding another transport protocol to the Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS). You can now subscribe a US phone number to an SNS topic. After the subscription has been confirmed, notifications sent to the topic will be delivered to the phone as an SMS message.
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Amazon EC2 Cluster Instances Available on Spot Market
— Today we are coupling two popular aspects of Amazon EC2: Cluster computing and Spot Instances! — More and more of our customers are finding innovative ways to use EC2 Spot Instances to save up to two-thirds off the On-Demand price.
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A New Approach to Amazon EC2 Networking
— You've been able to use the Amazon Virtual Private Cloud to construct a secure bridge between your existing IT infrastructure and the AWS cloud using an encrypted VPN connection. All communication between Amazon EC2 instances running within …
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Introducing the Amazon Simple Email Service
— Like most technical endeavors, sending email is a lot harder than it looks! The simple solutions that are entirely adequate when you have to send a couple of dozen daily emails simply don't work when you need to send out hundreds, thousands …
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Windows Store Weekly — This week we take a look at: Star Trek App, Box, Fling Theory, StumbleUpon, and wordBrush.
Static.com Adds Hadoop Support for Cloud Foundry — In this guest post, Jake Farrell, CTO for Static.com, explains how the major shift in the hosting industry towards platforms for high developer productivity …
DevOps: Improved Productivity, Higher Value — Those of us who have been aligned with DevOps for some time already know that the greater agility and closer collaboration it enables deliver real business value for our organizations.
Get Started with Hadoop on Hortonworks Data Platform 1.1 for Windows — We are excited to release the Hortonworks Data Platform 1.1 for Windows as a Generally Available product.
Skype in the browser — Whether you like the Skype app or not, until now, you've had no choice but to download something to make voice and video calls — either an app like Skype, or a Flash plugin (yikes) for your browser.