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Amazon Has Started Delivering Its Clouds with CloudFront
Amazon has announced today CloudFront Beta, a cloud Content Delivery Network (CDN), that can offer low-latency and high speed content transfer all over the globe through a series of edge points located on three continents. CloudFront is integrated with Amazon’s S3 and EC2 services.
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Comparing Amazon's EC2, Google's App Engine and Microsoft's Azure
The weather forecast changed when Microsoft entered the clouds with the Azure platform during PDC 2008. It would be interesting to compare the three major offerings existing on the market today, Amazon's, Google's and Microsoft's, and at the first glance it seems that they are not really competing against each other.
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Amazon's EC2 Switches from Beta to Production
Amazon's EC2 services are no longer offered as beta, but they have been switched into production, Amazon offering a Service Level Agreement (SLA). Windows on EC2 is still available as beta.
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C# Library for Amazon S3 Available on CodePlex
Affirma Consulting has developed a C# library which can be used to access Amazon's S3 services from a .NET application. The library, including examples, has been released on CodePlex.
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Windows Will Soon Enter Into the EC2 Cloud
After years of offering its Cloud Computing Services to run Linux or Solaris, and after receiving support for running Java EE applications, Amazon is promising its Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) will support Microsoft Windows later this fall.
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Interview: Jeff Barr Discusses Amazon Web Services
In this interview from QCon London 2008, Amazon Web Services (AWS) Evangelist Jeff Barr discusses SimpleDB, S3, EC2, SQS, cloud computing, how the different Amazon services interact within an application, the origins of AWS, SimpleDB and Microsoft SQL Server Data Services, globalization of the AWS cloud, the March AWS outage, SimpleDB Stored Procedures and converting between AMIs and VMWare.
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Presentation: Jinesh Varia About Amazon Alexa Web Service's Architecture
In this presentation, Jinesh Varia, a Web Services Evangelist at Amazon, talks about the architecture of one of Amazon's web services called Alexa. Jinesh explains how Amazon has reached scalability, performance and reduced costs for the Alexa service.
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InfoQ Case Study: NASDAQ Market Replay
In this case study InfoQ reviews the usage of Adobe AIR and Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) in the NASDAQ Market Replay application. It is an exciting time for the software industry, as the NASDAQ Market Replay implementation demonstrates that a powerful data driven application can be brought to the market quickly and deployed within a limited budget.
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Cloud Tools bring Java EE on Amazon EC2
Chris Richardson the author of "POJOs in Action", has released Cloud Tools, a set of tools for deploying and testing Java EE applications on Amazon's Elastic Computing Cloud (EC2). It's a Groovy framework that provides an API for launching EC2 instances; configuring MySQL, Tomcat servers; and deploying more web applications. In addition, it can also run JMeter and collect performance metrics.
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Amazon upgrades EC2 with Persistent Storage
Amazon’s Elastic Computer Cloud (EC2), which delivers Hardware as a Service (HaaS), is adding persistent storage to its list of features. Amazon CTO Werner Vogels write that "Persistent storage for Amazon EC2 will be offered in the form of storage volumes which you can mount into your EC2 instance as a raw block storage device."
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Trading Consistency for Scalability in Distributed Architectures
eBay's Dan Pritchard and Amazon's Werner Vogels talk about the necessary trade-offs to achieve appropriate network partitioning tolerance for large distributed systems.
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Consistency vs. availability: eventual consistency by Werner Vogels
Until the mid nineties, achieving distribution transparency and data consistency has often been the priority. As large Internet systems started to arise, availability became another important concern to be taken into consideration. Werner Vogels outlines some principles, abstractions and consistency/availability trade-offs related to large scale data replication with focus on eventual consistency.
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Presentation: Werner Vogels on The Amazon.com Technology Platform: Building Blocks for Innovation
In a presentation recorded at QCon, Amazon.com CTO Werner Vogels explains how Amazon has become a platform provider, and how an increasing number of diverse businesses are built on this platform. Although Amazon.com's scale makes them seem an extreme case, lessons have been learnt that will be of use to every enterprise looking to provide services to or to consume services of business partners.
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Amazon FPS: customized payment service & DSL
Amazon released a beta of its new Amazon Flexible Payment Service – Amazon FPS. FPS lowers transaction costs and supports micro payments. An unlimited number of Payment Instructions can be defined using a DSL. FPS makes it possible and easy to build customized payment management services, which, according to Amazon, will ultimately result in creation of innovative business models.
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Presentation: Amazon CTO Werner Vogels on Availability and Consistency
When we move to distributed architectures for scalability and/or fault-tolerance reasons we are also introducing additional complexities. Amazon CTO Werner Vogels dives into the different parameters that play in the tension between availability and consistency and presents a generalized model that we can use to reason about the trade-offs between different solutions.