Monthly Archives: May 2008

Two New EC2 Instance Types with more CPU Power

Posted on May 30, 2008 by James Murty

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 … Continue reading →

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PAWS Marketplace – A Rails Marketplace Application in the Cloud

Posted on May 29, 2008 by James Murty

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 … Continue reading →

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Script to build a Java classpath

Posted on May 13, 2008 by James Murty

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 … Continue reading →

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S3 Copy Object feature is now available in beta

Posted on May 6, 2008 by James Murty

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 … Continue reading →

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Browser Uploads to S3 using HTML POST Forms

Posted on May 1, 2008 by James Murty

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 … Continue reading →

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