Friday, February 15th, 2008
Although we were directly affected by the two hour outage of Amazon Web Services (AWS), it still wasn’t the end of the world. I read several blog entries and comments about “not putting all of your eggs in one basket” and “how cloud computing was unreliable.” However, what other baskets ...
Friday, February 15th, 2008
Update 1: It’s being reported that all of Amazon Web Services (AWS) is down. Update 2: AWS appears to be back online as of 9:00AM CST. The outage lasted about 1-2 hours this morning. Friday morning (February 15, 2008) Amazon Web Services experienced a system-wide outage of their Simple Storage ...
Friday, December 14th, 2007
The Amazon Web Services team just announced SimpleDB – the long anticipated database service to complement S3, EC2, and SQS. Now there will be an alternative to managing your own SQL cluster within EC2. Here’s what they had to say: Dear AWS Developers, This is a short note to let ...
Sunday, December 9th, 2007
The Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) allows webmasters to store and deliver files cheaply and quickly. S3 is perfect for hosting large images, documents, audio files (MP3s) and video files. An excellent real-life example of how S3 can be used is with podcasting. Most podcast files are quite large and ...
Wednesday, October 3rd, 2007
FlexiScale is a new UK based on-demand computing service, similar to Nirvanix and the EC2/S3/SQS components of Amazon Web Services. While they all provide basic computing and storage through a pay-as-you-go pricing model, each company has targeted their pricing and service offerings towards different users. Amazon Web Services (AWS) provides ...
Tuesday, June 12th, 2007
Yesterday’s live blogging of the WWDC keynote was a big success. Within the span of about 2 hours we received 20k visitors. Tyler did a great job of posting text and photo updates as they happened, thanks to his Verizon Wireless V740 ExpressCard. Our main objective was to test the ...
Monday, February 19th, 2007
Last month I blogged about the release of PHP-AWS – our open source Amazon Web Services library. Today I want to highlight the S3 File Manager I recently added to the project. It makes debugging your S3 code much easier. Not only does it let you browse your bucket contents, ...