Contemplating the brave new present
Posted in AWS on May 30th, 2008
Amazon has announced the availability of two new Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instance types with increased CPU processing power, bringing the total number of instance types to five.
The new instances are termed “High-CPU” versions, and they have a focus on raw processing power as measured in EC2 Compute Units (ECUs). The following table puts the [...]
I have added an article about my PAWS Marketplace example application to the AWS resources site: PAWS Marketplace - A Rails Marketplace Application in the Cloud.
The PAWS Marketplace is a proof-of-concept Ruby on Rails web application that runs entirely on Amazon Web Services. The application’s web site allows anyone with an Amazon Payments account to [...]
If you need to compile or run Java programs from the command line, it can be a real hassle to identify all the jar libraries the program requires and include them in your classpath.
Here is a short script that will do this work for you on Unix, Linux or Mac systems. It finds all [...]
Amazon has announced beta support for the Copy Object operation in S3. This feature was pre-announced in March.
The copy functionality allows you to copy objects within or between your S3 buckets, and optionally to replace the metadata associated with the object in the process. The single new operation makes it possible to copy, move, [...]
I have added an article about the S3 service’s POST upload feature to the AWS resources site: Browser Uploads to S3 using HTML POST Forms.
The article describes how to create HTML POST forms that allow your web site visitors to upload files into your S3 account using a standard web browser.