SimpleDB Domain Metadata Spec - Your Input Needed (1)
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The team behind Amazon SimpleDB is in the process of designing and implementing a new API call. The new call will return information about a particular SimpleDB domain. They have posted the design spec to the SimpleDB forum and would be very interested in receiving some more feedback. I've said it before and I'll say it again -- much of what we do at Amazon is driven by real feedback from real customers. If you ...
Amazon Web Services Blog: The Emerging Cloud Service Architecture (5)
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I'm going to go out on a limb today and try to paint a picture of where some of this cool and crazy cloud-based infrastructure may be going. While none of what I will write about is idle speculation, it is based on just a few data points, and may be totally off base. However, I do get to talk to plenty of entrepreneurs and developers on a daily basis, and I am starting to ...
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Gary Burge said:
This is an intelligent analysis of the future of "the cloud".
RightScale Webinar: Leveraging Amazon's Elastic Block Store (4)
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The folks at RightScale will be conducting a webinar on Thursday, August 28th at 10 AM PDT. They'll focus on the recently announced Amazon Elastic Block Store, discussing application scenarios, mission-critical deployment, architecture, and design considerations. Michael Crandell (RightScale CEO) and Thorsten von Eicken (RightScale CTO) will present. The webinar is free, but space is limited and pre-registration is recommended. -- Jeff;
Amazon SimpleDB Releases QueryWithAttributes (9)
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Amazon SimpleDB just released an update that includes a new feature called QueryWithAttributes. With this update, developers will be now able to retrieve all the information associated with items returned as a response to a particular query. The feature provides additional flexibility because it enables you to retrieve anywhere between one and all attributes for each item. This highly requested feature simplifies application development process for all clients of Amazon SimpleDB. Instead of issuing a ...
Redundant Disk Storage Across Multiple EC2 (3)
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XML Hacker M. David Peterson has put together a really interesting article. As part of his work at 3rd and Urban, he has implemented redundant, fault-tolerant, read-write disk storage on Amazon EC2 using a number of open source tools and applications including LVM, DRBD, NFS, Heartbeat, and VTUN. Mark notes that "the primary focus of this paper is to present both a detailed overview as well as a working code base that will enable you ...
Amazon EBS - Tool and Library Support (18)
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This is a companion post to my earlier post -- Amazon EBS (Elastic Block Store) - Bring Us Your Data. In the other post you can read about the features of EBS. This post goes into more detail on the tool and library support that has been built by our community of third-party developers. Here are some tools: The RightScale Dashboard includes complete support for EBS. RightScale founder Thorsten von Eicken has written a pair ...
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CB said:
Amazon EBS (Persistent storage on EC2), and the (3rd party) tools support this new feature
Amazon Web Services Blog: Amazon EBS (Elastic Block Store) - Bring Us Your Data (37)
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A few months ago I talked about our plans to offer a persistent storage feature for Amazon EC2. At that time I indicated that the service was in a limited alpha release with a small number of customers. Since then the alpha testers have been putting the service to good use and have provided us with a lot of very helpful feedback. As of today, the Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) is now open and ...
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nybble said:
Unbelievable, this is amazing. I wish they'd give sample cost estimates - I/O requests is an interesting metric to charge by. Snapshots is really great.
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cb160 said:
Lack Persistant disk storage was one of the features that made running a traditional app on EC2 difficult. Now Amazon have added it with Elastic Block Store, that problem has gone away.Startup infrastructure costs just dropped to 0.
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Nico said:
wow.
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mndoci said:
It's here!!!
Vertica / Sonian / Amazon Webinar (2)
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Earlier this year I talked about the unique and powerful AWS-powered solutions offered by Vertica and Sonian. Tomorrow (August 21st), I will be taking part in a unique, three-party webinar. In the webinar you'll get to hear from me, from Vertica Field Engineering Director Omer Trajman, and from Sonian CTO Greg Arnette. The webinar will start at 8 AM PST. In the webinar you will learn how cloud computing is changing the economics of data ...
Napera Networks - Network Health Solution (1)
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Seattle-based Napera Networks has built a really interesting piece of hardware. The Napera N24 Appliance automatically enforces health and identity rules for up to 200 computers, preventing rogue or unpatched machines from accessing a corporate network in an uncontrolled fashion. The device basically protects access points in conference rooms, sales offices and wireless networks from indiscriminate usage. Napera uses the Microsoft NAP (Network Access Protection) protocol to enforce a fully configurable set of health and ...
Fingad - Social Networking for Serious Investors Using EC2 and S3 (1)
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As part of a trip to New York earlier this year, the folks at Strateer were kind enough to set up an informal meeting with some AWS users in the area. Before lunch they pointed out a small conference room to me and told me that they had invited "a few local users." They wanted to make sure that I wouldn't be disappointed if just 2 or 3 folks showed up (I was fine). We ...
2008 AWS Start-Up Tour (6)
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We’re really excited to announce our AWS Start-Up Tour again in 2008, and this year we’re adding cities to include more hotbeds of innovation. The event is focused on the interests and needs of the startup community, so if you are an entrepreneur or startup leader this is an opportunity to hear about Amazon Web Services—and hear about the real-world experiences of others who already innovate on the AWS platform. The tour schedule is as ...
Amazon DevPay Introduces Tiered Usage-Based Pricing (7)
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Amazon DevPay now has a new and very powerful feature: tiered pricing for all usage-based components of a product's price. Using this new feature, you have more flexibility when you create the pricing plan for your product. Specifically, you can now create multiple levels, or tiers. You can create any number of tiers within your pricing plan. Pricing for each tier is based on the usage incurred by each of your customers. Let's take a ...
New features come to Amazon SimpleDB (19)
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Amazon SimpleDB released a new version last week. With this new version, developers will be now able sort the results and use a new does-not-start-with operator in their queries - the two most frequently asked feature requests. I am very excited about the new sort feature because now all the processing will happen in-the-cloud and I will be able to execute scenarios like: “Top ten” scenario – return top tem items based on some criteria ...
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j_b_f said:
SimpleDB adds sorting. Huzzah.
Can Scanning as a Service Clean Your Desk Off? (15)
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Does your desk look like this photo? No comment on where the photo was taken, of course... There's hope! Pixily just launched, with a business model that could be described as "NetFlix in reverse". They offer a plan that allows you to send them one envelope per month (envelopes can contain up to 50 items) filled with documents that you want scanned and made searchable. This base plan costs $14.95 per month, and of course ...
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Ken Kennedy said:
Another Pixily link...and it's built pretty much completely on Amazon Web Services. Cool.
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Ankur Gupta said:
this is one awesome service.
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Geoffrey Wiseman said:
Mmm, filing without the files.
Wanted: AWS Architecture Blog Posts & Diagrams (3)
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From time to time, potential users of AWS ask me about the best way to set up a highly scalable architecture using Amazon EC2, S3, SimpleDB, and SQS. I'd like to challenge readers of this blog to document their AWS-powered architectures in a blog post, preferably with a diagram, and to leave comments with a link back to their posts. I'll collect them all up in a future post. Here are a few that I ...
Amazon Web Services "Office Hours" (7)
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We thought of trying out a new idea. Instead of working from our Amazon offices, for a change, we will be work for few hours, every last tuesday of the month, from an offsite. We like to call it AWS “Office Hours”. Offsite will be at the StartPad co-working office space in Pioneer Square in Seattle. This will be your chance to chat with an AWS technical evangelist and technical support engineer and get your ...
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maccman said:
Ah, now we know why S3 was down.
White Paper on 'Cloud Architectures' and Best Practices of Amazon S3, EC2, SimpleDB, SQS (48)
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I am very happy to announce my white paper on Cloud Architectures is now ready. This is one incarnation of the Emerging Cloud Service Architectures that Jeff wrote about a few weeks ago. If you are new to the cloud, the first section of the paper will help you understand the benefits of building applications in-the-cloud. If you are using the cloud already, the second section of the paper will help you to use the ...
Jollat - Cross-Platform AWS Manager Client (12)
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Andras wrote to tell me about Jollat, a new graphical cross-platform (Windows, Mac, and Linux) management client for Amazon EC2 and S3. Available for free download (with a purchase option), the client includes a number of interesting features. On the S3 side, Jollat handles bucket creation in both the US and EU zones, upload and download of multiple files, log file configuration and management, and an access control list (ACL) editor. On the EC2 side, ...
