Amazon Cloud Drive
Amazon starts Cloud Drive with 5 (free) to 1,000 GB for music, photos, videos, documents; http://eicker.at/AmazonCloudDrive
Amazon starts Cloud Drive with 5 (free) to 1,000 GB for music, photos, videos, documents; http://eicker.at/AmazonCloudDrive
Winer on WikiLeaks bans: The tech industry more or less failed the neutrality test; http://eicker.at/NeutralityTest
Amazon RDS makes it easy to set up, operate, and scale a relational database in the cloud; http://j.mp/4xLFW
Amazon created a hybrid cloud that can work securely for enterprises: Amazon Virtual Private Cloud; http://bit.ly/mHhAf
Amazon: Developers and businesses can now run their Amazon EC2 instances in the EU; http://is.gd/aYlS
AWS Public Data Sets provide sharing, access, and use of public data within EC2 environments; http://is.gd/8Ln2
Amazon‘s CloudFront is a web service for content delivery, integrating with other Amazon Web Services; http://is.gd/7WyU
TR: “Amazon has become a major player in cloud computing in recent years. Many Web startups have come to rely on its pay-as-you-go hosting and computing services rather than investing in costly and complex infrastructure of their own. The newest offering from Amazon Web Services, called Cloudfront, may provide insight into Amazon’s long-term business model. This new product offers companies that are already hooked on Amazon storage and processing the ability to distribute their content and thus make themselves more stable and reliable.”
Microsoft‘s business software will soon be another option on Amazon‘s EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud); http://is.gd/3vFO
Amazon is preparing the start of its Content Delivery Service (CDS) as a part of AWS; http://is.gd/2NNq
TC: “Amazon getting into the CDN business seems like the ideal move for a company that’s trying to provide storage and on-demand computing services already. And considering its size makes it easier for it to adapt its business model to satisfy smaller businesses and those that are less likely to want to enter into long-term agreements, Amazon could quite easily push its competitors aside and cement itself as the leader in the market.”
NYT: “Current Amazon customers can accomplish much the same via the existing Simple Storage Service or S3. The new service, Amazon says, will make it easier for customers to distribute their files to a diverse set of data centers, improving performance. ‘This makes sense for popular content that may be accessed many times,’ said Adam Selipsky, a vice president with Amazon Web Services.”
Carr: “Building an efficient cloud-computing infrastructure does not represent an added expense for [Amazon]”; http://is.gd/oFL
RWW: “CloudFront appears to have answered concerns about both cost and reliability for smaller organizations. The service leverages the same Amazon infrastructure that has made S3 such a popular solution – with eight edge locations in the US alone – and the pricing seems to fall in line with the affordable S3 offering, as well. … To take advantage of the new service, Amazon users can save their objects to an S3 ‘bucket’ and then register that bucket with CloudFront. That makes those objects accessible via a simple API call.”