Typica 1.5 has just been released.

This version brings a lot of new stuff like:

• EC2 enhancements: support for EU and regions,
• SDB enhancements: support for SQL like grammar (select, etc.),
• Bug fixes…
• … and of course the FPS API we’ve been working on.

As Amazon announced plenty of FPS Quick Starts, you now don’t have any excuse for not using the FPS API when developing in Java.

 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