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Amazon S3: Simple Storage Service
Amazon has a new Web service for you to play with. its called the S3, or Simple Storage Service. it allows you to host files with sizes from 1Byte to 5Gigs, you can download them using either HTTP or Bittorrent, and there are a lot of other things...
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Amazon Releases (in Limited BETA) Amazon SimpleDB
Amazon has finally announced a database type web service, SimpleDB, which will be going into Limited BETA in the next few weeks. this will allow you to store, query and process data in a structured way which will be stored in the cloud. pricing is...
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Amazon Opens EC2 for all, new instance types added
Good news from the Amazon EC2 team. On their Developer Connection Forum, they have just announced that EC2 is now open to all, which is cool, and they now have a total of 3 instance types: Small: which is the standard 1.7Gb memory, 1 EC2 Compute ...
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Amazon FPS
Amazon is now in the payments business. Well, technically, they have been for a while, but now they have an API and all. FPS, or the Flexible Payment Service, is currently in limited BETA, but this sounds very cool! Still waiting on a SQL DB imple...
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Amazon EC2, S3 and my new idea
Right, i have an idea for a website, which i wont be announcing for a few days (need to get it deved up first) but while in the planning phase, i found some interesting links some of you might find handy.Web clustering with Amazon EC2MySQL replica...
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Amazon Ec2 gets competition, and they support Windows Servers!
Amazon allow you to create your virtual instances using pretty much any Linux distribution you want, but Windows is not easily available (yea, you can run a virtual instance on the virtual instance, but its not fast). Enter Flexiscale. They are a ...
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Amazon EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud) Limited beta
Right, this is very cool! You build a website, needing a lot of bandwidth and other stuff, but a dedicated server is expencive, and takes time to install. never fear, Amazon is here! Check out the info about the new Amazon EC2 (Elastic Compute Clo...
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Amazon EC2, Amazon S3, Microsoft Virtual Server, Windows Server and other random thoughts
This is something I have been thinking about for a while now. When Amazon announced EC2, the first think I though was “What about .NET and ASP.NET?” yes, you can run Mono on Linux, but I want a full Windows box! So, it got me thinking, and my thin...
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Amazon adds S3 storage in Europe
This morning, amazon has added S3 storage options in Europe. What does that mean? Well, instead of your data being hosted in the US, you now have the option of storing it in Europe. Not sure exactly where the data center is, just yet, but not havi...
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Altivec support on PearPC!
Altivec support for the Pear PC! how cool is that! in theory, an emulated mac on my workstation could be faster then my real mac (Workstation is a dual Athlon 2Gz and the real mac is a 333Mhz G3 iMac). Just making an image of Panther disc 1 and di...
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