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Amazon has announced a major new feature for their Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) service: Elastic Block Store (EBS) persistent storage volumes.
EBS provides for block level storage space that can be attached to your EC2 instances, but which exists separately from these instances and persists even if an instance fails or is shut down. The storage [...]

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Earlier this month, Amazon changed the pricing structure for micropayment (aggregate) transactions performed with the Flexible Payments Service (FPS). FPS no longer charges a per-transaction fee for payments made from a prepaid or postpaid instrument. Fees are only changed when money is transferred into an instrument: to fund a prepaid instrument, or to settle a [...]

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I am pleased to announce the release of JetS3t version 0.6.1, the newest version of my open source Java S3 library and application suite.
This release includes bug fixes, application improvements, and support for some of the newest features of Amazon’s Simple Storage Service (S3). Highlights include:

Support for copying, moving, and renaming S3 objects with the [...]

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