Elastic Grid Blog

 Entries about Amazon Web Services:

• Amazon lowers data transfer costs! This price cut is especially interesting if you do transfer from outside of Amazon infrastructure more than 40TB of data per month. They also introduced a new tier.

Entries about Amazon Web Services:

• Typica 1.2 released: now provides support DevPay LS and updated to the latest EC2 API
• SDB: adds support for UTF-8 strings through the REST interface
• Building for Performance and Reliability with Amazon SimpleDB
• Mass Video Conversion Using AWS: the article has been updated in order to improve the code and benefit from latest AWS changes/releases!
• Creating a WordPress Plugin Using Amazon SDB

Entries about Amazon Web Services:

• Persistent storage for EC2: as announced on AWS blog, but also here and here!
• Amazon announced a Service Health Dashboard and some Paid Support options, although the pricing model won’t fit for everone.
• Some new success stories: Assay Depot, Digitaria, The Talk Market, Familybuilder.com, and Animato, via AWS Blog.
• Tarzan: PHP5 modules for S3, EC2 and SQS.
• ActionScript3 library for SimpleDB.
  

Entries about Amazon Web Services:

• SimpleDB Denormalization Design, via the SDB forum
• Best practices for ensuring max uptime, via the EC2 forum
• Who pays for regional traffic?, via the EC2 forum
• Scalr: Scalable Web Sites with EC2, via AWS Blog

Entries about Amazon Web Services:

• Right_AWS 1.7.1 released - Ruby library for SDB, EC2, S3, and SQS
• Article on Python Persistence in SimpleDB

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