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 follows, with more details at www.amazon.com/gp/browse.html?node=332775011. Click Here to RSVP, and we suggest an early RSVP to avoid disappointment caused by limited seating. By the way, there is no admission cost for the event.
Silicon Valley, September 3
San Francisco, CA, September 4
Los Angeles, CA, September 9
Salt Lake City, UT, September 10
Austin, TX, September 11
Toronto, Ontario, September 16
New York, NY, September 18
Boston/Cambridge, MA, September 22
London, UK, November 4
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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 look at some of the models that you can create:
First, you can create a free usage level to make it easy for customers to give your product a try. You would set the sign-up fee and the monthly fee to zero, and then create a set of tiers. If you have a storage-based product, you could allow them to use Amazon S3 to store up to 2 GB / month for free, with a charge of $1 […]
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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 (price, rating, etc)
“Most recent” scenario - get X most recently updated items (sorted by “LastUpdatedDate”)
“Contact List” scenario – return items sorted alphabetically on “Last Name”
I would also like to highlight if you are storing your data on Amazon S3 and indexing your corresponding metadata on Amazon SimpleDB, this feature will be highly useful. Use this excellent library to index all your Amazon S3 object metadata in Amazon SimpleDB.
I also highly recommend reading the Query […]
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Everyday, we hear new stories about a cool new startup and its success story.
Today, It was WalkScore.com. The website offers some great information about which neighborhood/city is more walkable than the rest (San francisco was #1 and Seattle was #6). Walk Score calculates the walkability of an address by locating nearby stores, restaurants, schools, parks, etc. I think it is a great site for those who are consider moving to a new neighborhood or those who simply like the car-free lifestyle, especially because the gas prices are setting new records everyday.
This Seattle-based innovative startup hit almost all the major newspapers, blogs and websites last week from SF Chronicle to Washington Post, Los Angeles Times Blog to ABC News, From USA Today to MSNBC.
In an email, Matt Lerner from WalkScore says:
We would never have weathered being the #1 story on Yahoo! yesterday if it weren’t for Amazon! THANK YOU!
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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 questions answered. Plus, there is free internet and desk space if you want to camp out for the afternoon.
Feel free to let us know if you are planning to stop by.
When: July 22nd, 2pm-6pm (last Tuesday of each month)
Where: StartPad, 811 First Ave, Suite 480, Seattle - (206) 388-3466
– Jinesh
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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 cloud more effectively by utilizing some of the best practices.
In this paper, I discuss a new way to design architectures. Cloud Architectures are Services-Oriented Architectures that are designed to use On-demand infrastructure more effectively. Applications built on Cloud Architectures are such that the underlying computing infrastructure is used only when it is needed (for example to process a user request), draw the necessary resources on-demand (like compute servers or storage), perform a specific job, then […]
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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, Jollat’s image manager makes it easy to find and launch any AMI (Amazon Machine Image). Once launched, instances can be accessed using an embedded SSH client. The tool also manages availability zones, IP addresses, and key pairs.
You can see Jollat in action by watching the video.
– Jeff;
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It is finally summer here in Seattle and I’m trying to get out of the office as early as possible today. Here are a few cool things that have recently landed in my inbox:
Don MacAskill wrote to tell me about his new product, SmugVault. This new service extends the existing image storage capabilities provided by SmugMug, allowing users to upload a wide variety of image files, as well as files of other sorts, for safekeeping. Don used Amazon’s DevPay system to implement a usage-based fee structure — $1 per month and 22 cents per GB of storage, along with fees to transfer data in and out. The entire contents of a 2 GB memory card can be stored for just 44 cents per month. SmugVault can create finished products from raw video and image data, and it can also bundle together alternate formats of an image (GIF, RAW, and so […]
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The GigaSpaces XAP (eXtreme Application Platform) is now available as an Amazon EC2 AMI (Amazon Machine Image).
At the core, XAP implements a scalable, in-memory database which can be
used as a data grid, a messaging grid, or as a parallel processing
framework.
XAP makes it easy to scale the entire middleware layer (data, messaging, and services) of an application. It does this using an architecture which provides for just-in-time provisioning of processing resources, making it an ideal match for EC2. You can build and test an application on your laptop, and then migrate it to your own data center or to Amazon EC2 without any code changes.
The entire system runs under the control of an SLA-driven container. The container hosts applications, scales out to additional instances as needed, and manages partitioning, replication, and failover.
Applications can be built using C++, any .Net language, or Java via Spring, Hibernate, Tomcat, Mule, or J2EE. These applications […]
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By now many of you are aware that Red Hat Enterprise Linux is fully supported by Red Hat on Amazon EC2. You can read more about the offering at http://www.redhat.com/solutions/cloud/. Jeff Barr blogged about this in November, 2007 (aws.typepad.com/aws/2007/11/red-hat-enterpr.html).
I’m posting this from Boston, where I am attending the Red Hat Global Summit — more specifically helping with a hands-on lab that teaches developers and IT staff how to deploy Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) on Amazon EC2. (It’s really easy.) It’s been fun to meet enterprise developers from all over the world, and surprising to find out that no matter what country the developer is in awareness about Cloud Computing is high.
JBossPerhaps you already saw the posts in other blogs… Red Hat announced that their JBoss Enterprise Application Platform is available in beta form as a service within the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2).
Traditionally we think of Java […]
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