Entries about Amazon Web Services:

• Amazon EC2 now provides elastic IP addresses and availability zones:
  • elastic IP addresses are static IP addresses associated to your AWS account which can be remapped on the fly to any EC2 instance,
  • availability zones allows you to control where (meaning which data center) you want to start your EC2 instance

Update:

• Amazon EC2 also provides user selectable kernels which allow to run a different kernel than the one provided by Amazon, via AWS Blog.

Entries about Amazon Web Services:

• sdb-browser: Amazon SimpleDB data browser/editor.
• FPyS: an Amazon FPS client for Python.
• Dekoh: Amazon EC2 case study, via AWS Blog.
• Articles about using Amazon S3 persistent Ruby objects and an extended version using Amazon SDB.
• Interesting article explaining why you should load CPU instead of storage.
• Video screencast for Getting Started with Amazon S3 using the S3 Fox Firefox plugin.

Entries about Amazon Web Services:

• Amazon Fulfillment Web Service: two sets of APIs used in order to track shipments to Amazon fulfillment centers and from Amazon fulfillment center to the customers, via AWS Blog.
• boto 1.1a: a new release of boto, the Python library for Amazon Web Services, is now available…

Entries about Amazon Web Services:

• Happy Birthday, Amazon S3! 14 billions of objects as of Jan 2008.
• SimplerDB is an in-memory Ruby implementation of Amazon‘s SimpleDB REST API. You can use it to test your application offline (for free!) or experiment with SimpleDB without a beta account.

Entries about Amazon Web Services:

• Using Amazon S3, EC2, Lucene and Ruby for Web Spidering
• Amazon S3 from the command line
• Amazon EC2: What You May Not Have Known
• SimpleJPA: Java Persistence API (JPA) implementation for Amazon’s SimpleDB
• ec2buntu: Google Group discussing about the use of Ubuntu on EC2 infrastructure
• Cloud Tools is a set of tools for deploying and testing Java EE applications on Amazon EC2

Entries about Amazon Web Services:

• Amazon S3 Copy Proposal: at last… This will allow to copy, rename, move, and relocate (from US to EU or the contrary) buckets without having to download/upload.
• Amazon FPS: How to create a Marketplace Application
• Amazon FPS: Pay Now Widget Module for OsCommerce
• Monetize your Amazon S3 objects using Amazon FPS
• Hadoop AMI and its associated tutorial Running Hadoop MapReduce on Amazon EC2 and Amazon S3
• Taking Massive Distributed Computing to the Common Man – Hadoop on Amazon EC2/S3
• Hadoop on Demand: provisioning of Hadoop on a virtual cluster, but not EC2…

The Rio plugin has been updated a few hours ago in order to provide support for Rio 3.3 M1.

Here is on the left a screenshot of it in action…

Entries about Amazon Web Services:

• FAQ for Amazon S3
• Scaling with Clouds
• Building a Multisourced Infrastructure Using OpenVPN: how to scale your applications on Amazon EC2 when your local data-center can’t handle peaks load.